Chapter 946: Laser Weapons!

Of course, Huake Aviation Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the Defense Group Corporation, is also developing small high-speed drones for the "Avenger" precision-guided rocket artillery system.

Huake Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. has previous technical experience in the development of high-speed target aircraft, and the joint research and development of UAV rocket booster system with Ordnance Equipment Group Company is also progressing rapidly.

The Ordnance Equipment Group Company is also very active in this "Avenger" system, and while meeting the needs of the domestic military, it also wants to rely on this system to get more orders overseas.

After all, the installation of a guidance system for rocket artillery has subversively changed the attack power of rocket artillery, which can completely replace large missiles such as short-range missiles, but the cost is much lower.

In order to achieve this purpose, the main focus is on the solid propellant of the rocket surface combustion technology and gliding extended-range ballistic technology to make the rocket go farther.

These military experts all want to use rocket artillery as missiles, but this kind of rocket artillery is widely dispersed and is mostly used to cover and attack targets, and the accuracy is not enough to make up for firepower.

Huaxing Group has played a lot in the research and development of laser guidance technology over the years, and transplanting this set of technology to rocket artillery has made rocket artillery grow eyes, and its power has increased by an order of magnitude.

For this reason, these military experts have inspected the defense group company many times, and they all hope to install this guidance system on the rocket as soon as possible.

Of course, the defense group is not only developing the Armor system and the Avenger system, but also a set of high-energy laser weapons.

The prototype of this high-energy laser weapon is a set of 33 kilowatt-class solid-state fiber lasers, which are mainly used for ground interception and defense and offensive of surface ships.

Of course, this set of weapons and equipment integrates the technical patents of Huaxing Group in the research and development of laser technology in recent years, for example, the optoelectronic research and development center set up by Huaxing Group near the University of Southampton provides Prague grating components.

The solid-state laser light source is a gallium nitride laser light source developed by Huaxing Group in the optoelectronic technology research and development center in Yanjing, and it is also a frequency-doubling device prepared by using the fluoroboro-beryllium crystal material developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and such a high-energy deep ultraviolet solid-state laser is manufactured.

The technical team of Huaxing Group has accumulated a large number of technical patents by cooperating with the technical team of large scientific devices to build synchrotron radiation light source facilities, and the team of the entire Huaxing Group Company involved in laser technology has almost thousands of people.

Therefore, the research and development of this set of high-energy solid-state lasers is still very smooth, and now the solid-state laser emitter has been developed.

In the laboratory, the technical team also demonstrated the power of the laser transmitter to Yang Jie, and after the transmitter was activated, the steel plate ten meters away was melted and burned through a small hole in a few seconds.

Because of the use of gallium nitride laser light source, this single solid-state fiber laser is very small in size, and it is also the largest power laser developed at this stage.

In 1988, Schnitz, a domestic scientist in Eagle Sauce, invented a double-clad fiber laser doped with erbium of rare earth material, which is small in size and has a high energy conversion efficiency, up to 70%, and the biggest advantage is that it almost does not require a cooling system.

In this regard, the domestic technical strength is still lacking, but Huaxing Group has quickly mastered this technology through the purchase and its own research and development by establishing a R&D center in John's Bull to absorb talents in this area.

Technically speaking, if you want to realize laser weapons, you must first choose a laser, a laser is a device that can produce lasers, which is equivalent to a light source such as a civilian light bulb, similar to a civilian light source, there are thousands of lasers that can emit lasers, which are roughly divided into solid-state lasers, liquid lasers, gaseous lasers, free electron lasers and other categories.

In the early 80s of the last century, Eagle Sauce injected huge funds into the research and development of laser weapons, mainly focusing on the technical research and development of oxygen and iodine chemical lasers, gas lasers, and tested with Boeing 704-400F as the carrier aircraft, with an output power of megawatts, and the goal was to destroy intercontinental missiles hundreds of kilometers away in the booster stage.

According to the original assumption, 20-30 Boeing 747 aircraft equipped with laser weapons can take off at the same time in wartime, which can resist about 100 incoming missiles, but this laser weapon needs to be huge in size, and uses chemical energy as raw materials, and each shot needs to consume a large amount of oxygen iodine chemical agent, even if the Boeing 747 aircraft with a huge body, it can only be loaded with 24 shots.

This set of laser weapons is not far from actual combat, but the Eagle Sauce military still overcame key topics such as the study of the deflection effect of the atmosphere on the laser during the transmission of hundreds of kilometers, and accumulated a lot of technical reserves.

After the emergence of fiber lasers and solid-state laser light sources, the technical route of Eagle Sauce has now shifted to solid-state fiber laser technology.

The energy of the early fiber laser is not large, only about 0.5 kilowatts, but the development is very fast, and now the domestic Cotos company of Eagle Sauce has adopted 6 5 kilowatt fiber lasers produced by iPg to achieve a solid-state laser emitter with a total output power of 32 kilowatts.

On this basis, the R&D center of the Eagle Sauce Navy is developing laser weapons on it.

However, Eagle Sauce's solid-state laser light source uses gallium arsenide lasers, while Huaxing Group uses gallium nitride lasers, which can be made smaller and have greater energy density.

Last year, Huaxing Group developed a 33 kilowatt fiber laser, which is very small with such a laser and cooling system.

"Yang Shao, this set of high-energy laser launchers we developed can now achieve a maximum destruction distance of 4 kilometers, and it can burn through the shell of the drone rocket and cause damage to the parts inside within three seconds. ”

Tong Shuangjiang, the chief scientist in charge of the research and development of laser weapons, said happily: "And as long as the power supply of this system is stable, it can be continuously launched, and the launch cost can be reduced to a very low level." ”

Because Huaxing Group has carried out a lot of research and development in gallium nitride technology in recent years, it has prepared a high-power pulsed power combination amplifier, which can provide a stable and reliable power supply for laser weapons, and the photoelectric conversion efficiency is very high.

This set of amplifiers was customized by the Defense Group Corporation to the satellite technology research and development department of China Satellite Communications Corporation.

At present, many subsidiaries of Huaxing Group are conducting research and development in different directions of gallium nitride materials, and Nanao Group and China Satellite Communications Corporation have the largest research and development efforts in high-power devices, and they have launched high-power devices of different specifications.