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150 kW LaWS Follow-On Laser Going On Portland Later This Year

Thursday, April 25th, 2019

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150 kW LaWS Follow-On Laser Going On Portland Later This Year

Rendering of the 150 kW Solid State Laser Technology Maturation (SSL-TM) demonstrator weapon firing from the USS Portland (LPD-27). (Image: Office of Naval Research).

The Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) 150 kW follow-on to the Laser Weapons System (LaWS) will be moved to the USS Portland (LPD-27) later this year, according to a Navy official. An ONR official told Defense Daily on Thursday at the Department of Defense’s DoD Lab Day that once the new system, named the Solid State Laser Technology Maturation (SSL-TM), finishes integration, it will be taken to a land-based test site to better examine its capabilities. “You can only do…

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