Tactical High Energy Laser
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The Nautilus Project was started in 1995 as a joint USIsrael feasibility study for using laser systems to defend against short-range artillery rockets. It has now matured into a successful laser weapon demonstration program – the Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) Program. By now the THEL Demonstrator has engaged and destroyed a large number of artillery rockets in midflight in an extended series of demonstration tests at the US Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The THEL ACTD hardware and development process are described in this paper, as well as the major test results. The paper also describes the operational concept for a deployed THEL weapon system and some possible growth paths for the THEL ACTD Program.
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