Laser weapons destroy a rocket at a distance of 1.5 km (video)

Apparently, it would not be too great an exaggeration to believe that the use of such high-tech weapons as laser guns in military operations is not far off - both military and large corporations freely share a detailed video of successful tests.

The research team from Lockheed Martin has developed a mobile (in the photo you can estimate the approximate scale) laser installation ADAM (Area Defense Anti-Munitions), specifically designed to destroy enemy missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Technically, ADAM is able to detect a potential threat in a radius of more than 5 km and destroy the target with a continuous laser beam at a distance of 2 km.

No other technical details, such as laser type or power consumption, are known for ADAM - probably due to the military nature of the design, but the video below can be used to evaluate how the installation works.
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Over the past year, ADAM has been tested on test UAVs and simulators; Later, the task was complicated by setting a Qassam type rocket as a target, which is a solid fuel made from a pipe about 0.7 m in size (a white sugar with potassium nitrate mixture KNO ₃ is used as fuel) distance from 3 to 18 km. Such missiles with a self-made primitive launcher are used by militants of the Gaza Strip during the shelling of the territory of Israel - hence the name.

The video first shows the destruction of the missile in real time - it is difficult to notice something, but in slow motion repetition it is clearly distinguishable that for a certain time the laser beam concentrates on the head part of the missile and “leads” it for some time, which eventually leads to its exploding in the air.



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