In the last decades, the world has been confronted with increasingly severe threats caused by small drones, especially for security of important places such as military bases and crucial activities in public areas. In comparison with traditional projectile weapons, high-energy laser weapons are especially suitable for countering such threats due to its precise and scalable effect with extremely low collateral damage. This paper presents a systematic design method of anti-drone laser weapons. First, this paper analyzes the system’s requirements. Secondly, describes the damage capability of high-energy laser weapons, presents how to determine the main parameters of the laser weapon system. Finally, for maneuverable deployment, this paper discusses the power supply for laser and cooling equipment, and shows how to reduce the power supply requirement and the system mass.
The world is confronted with increasingly severe challenges of unconventional threats with the popularization of small UAVs in civil fields. Due to the advantages such as killing or disabling targets with no or minimal collateral damage, the high energy laser weapon becomes one of effective means for coping with these kinds of threats. In order to guarantee cost-effectiveness, this paper presents an effect-based method for designing high energy laser weapons. First, we introduce the system components, the operating mechanism, and the damage capability of system. Second, we present the relationship equations between the on-target irradiance and all the influence factors. Finally, we discuss the laser selection problem and beam combining methods and show how to determine main technical parameters of the laser weapon system.
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