High Energy Laser Employment in Self Defense Tactics on Naval Platforms
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Kline, Jeff
Lucas, Tom
Sanchez, Paul
Rockwell, Steven
Schultz, Dustin
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2015
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Period of Performance: 1 OCT 2014--30 SEP 2015
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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The U.S. Surface Navy is vulnerable to unmanned aerial vehicle and small boat swarm attack, particularly when coordinated with a multiple anti-ship cruise missile attack. Shipboard high energy lasers employed against enemy air and surface threats provide the possibility of an effective defense against swarm or numerous attacks when combined with other hard and soft kill systems. Technical constraints, however, require intelligently employing a high energy laser system in coordination with other shipboard defense systems against a heterogeneous set of threats from a coordinated attack.
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Professor of Practice Jeff Kline and Dr Tom Lucas, with Dr. Paul Sanchez, LT Steven Rockwell, and LT Dustin Schultz (GSOIS)
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Prepared for: ASN(RDA), DASN RDT& E and ONR, Mr. John Burrows and Mr. Peter Morrison
Prepared for: ASN(RDA), DASN RDT& E and ONR, Mr. John Burrows and Mr. Peter Morrison
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.