US installs laser cannons on F-15 fighters

Lockheed Martin Corporation and the US Air Force Research Laboratory have signed a contract to build laser cannons for the country's advanced F-15 fighters.

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According to Lenta news agency, the new laser weapon is based on LaWS (Laser Weapon System) technology that Lockheed Martin is developing for the US Navy.

The system uses the principle of spectral channel compression where the energy of multiple laser devices is merged into one beam.

It is known that the contract to manufacture laser cannons for F-15 fighters is worth 26.3 million USD and was signed within the framework of the SHiELD (Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator) program to manufacture lasers used to intercept air-to-air and ground-to-air missiles.

According to TPO