Indian Laser and Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) Thread

[Indx TechStyle]

wouldntit be lovely if some of these defensive weapons as depicted above could be modified to be less potent , to be used to defend our security people from the stone pelting bums in the far north of the nation ?

would be nice to know if drdo could take up that possibility

You must be nice to know that Active Denial System and mob control lasers are being developed for it. I guess tested or about to get.
PAIN WITHOUT INJURY!

 

[Tarun Kumar]

Whoever wins the high energy weapons war, wins the world so we need to invest in DEWs asap.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

wins the world so we need to invest in DEWs asap.

Done already a decade ago, even we got results.

 

[woaa]

Done already a decade ago, even we got results.

but i havent seen anything at all my friend.

 

[Kshatriya87]

Whoever wins the high energy weapons war, wins the world so we need to invest in DEWs asap.

I don't think they will win the world. Firstly, it will give us very fast and flawless defence system against any and all air threats.

The use of high energy weapons to destroy land targets are not that wide.

In order to win the world, you have to attack the world. To attack the world, you need destruction on land which cannot be caused completely by lasers. We have to use conventional methods for that.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

but i havent seen anything at all my friend.

Did you even bother to read the thread? Start from first page.

 

[Hemu Vikram Aditya]

One system that has been talked of in a USI paper by Dr V. Siddhartha, officer on special duty in the secretariat of the scientific adviser to the defence minister, is Durga or directionally unrestricted ray-gun array. Though no details on this are available, it is said to be an Indian version of the US's Star Wars project in which in-coming missiles can be shot down, or burnt down, by laser guns based in space. Still less known is Kali or kinetic attack loitering interceptor, a more advanced version of Durga.
Source http://vandemaatram.blogspot.in/2007/04/brahmos-cruise-missile-programme-was.html

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Trailer based DEW
Centre for High Energy Systems and Sciences (CHESS)

Electro Optical Tracking System

 

[Prashant12]

DRDO develops hand-held laser-based explosive detector

A handheld explosive detector developed by a laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) could make airports in the country safer for travellers.

The laser science and technology centre (LASTEC) of DRDO, based in New Delhi, has developed the portable device which uses a laser beam to detect explosives in a matter of seconds. A scientist from LASTEC, who was at the centre’s stall in Aero India, explained that metal detectors and x-ray scanners were not effective enough to detect explosives which a person could carry in gel, liquid or powder forms, among others.

“In civilian airports, people carry all kinds of things like shampoo, medicines, talcum powder and so on. It is difficult to judge whether they are disguised explosives without testing in a forensic lab,” the scientist said. The handheld detector can solve this problem because, within 12 seconds, it can tell whether the talcum powder a passenger is carrying is an explosive substance or not. A green laser light is used to ‘fingerprint’ the explosive based on Raman scattering spectroscopy.

“Depending on the kind of particles in the explosive, the wavelength of the laser beam will shift. The device already has an in-built library of 40 kinds of explosive substances. It will match the result with entries in the library, identify the substance and display the name,” he explained.

Trinitrotoluene (TNT), nitro glucose and nitrocellulose are some of the explosive substances in the library. Substances which may be harmless by themselves, but can be explosive when mixed with other materials are also included in the database. This laser detection method does not damage the material it inspects and can detect through glass and translucent containers as well. The device is portable, weighing 8 kg, and is powered by rechargeable batteries.

The detector will be supplied to major international airports in the country and to other sensitive areas such as industrial establishments of national interest. “We have demonstrated the device to several organisations such as the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and National Security Guard (NSG). They have approved it and the detectors are now in production,” the scientist said. The technology of the detector has been transferred to four Indian companies for production and in four to six months, the detectors will be supplied wherever required, he said.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/597162/drdo-develops-hand-held-laser.html

 

[Kshatriya87]

DRDO develops hand-held laser-based explosive detector

A handheld explosive detector developed by a laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) could make airports in the country safer for travellers.

The laser science and technology centre (LASTEC) of DRDO, based in New Delhi, has developed the portable device which uses a laser beam to detect explosives in a matter of seconds. A scientist from LASTEC, who was at the centre’s stall in Aero India, explained that metal detectors and x-ray scanners were not effective enough to detect explosives which a person could carry in gel, liquid or powder forms, among others.

“In civilian airports, people carry all kinds of things like shampoo, medicines, talcum powder and so on. It is difficult to judge whether they are disguised explosives without testing in a forensic lab,” the scientist said. The handheld detector can solve this problem because, within 12 seconds, it can tell whether the talcum powder a passenger is carrying is an explosive substance or not. A green laser light is used to ‘fingerprint’ the explosive based on Raman scattering spectroscopy.

“Depending on the kind of particles in the explosive, the wavelength of the laser beam will shift. The device already has an in-built library of 40 kinds of explosive substances. It will match the result with entries in the library, identify the substance and display the name,” he explained.

Trinitrotoluene (TNT), nitro glucose and nitrocellulose are some of the explosive substances in the library. Substances which may be harmless by themselves, but can be explosive when mixed with other materials are also included in the database. This laser detection method does not damage the material it inspects and can detect through glass and translucent containers as well. The device is portable, weighing 8 kg, and is powered by rechargeable batteries.

The detector will be supplied to major international airports in the country and to other sensitive areas such as industrial establishments of national interest. “We have demonstrated the device to several organisations such as the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and National Security Guard (NSG). They have approved it and the detectors are now in production,” the scientist said. The technology of the detector has been transferred to four Indian companies for production and in four to six months, the detectors will be supplied wherever required, he said.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/597162/drdo-develops-hand-held-laser.html

Its good but how will you use this at civilian airports? It takes 12 seconds to scan 1 object. Imagine the number of shampoo bottles, water bottles, etc. in a civilian airport at any given time.

 

[sayareakd]

Trailer based DEW
Centre for High Energy Systems and Sciences (CHESS)

Electro Optical Tracking System

Its cool project, told by one who supplied parts for this. But has refused to say anything futher...... great work guys, proud of you.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Its cool project, told by one who supplied parts for this. But has refused to say anything futher...... great work guys, proud of you.

If you have worked in heavy machinery industry, you may be aware what I experience.
We receive orders from government or players like L&T, we get the material to forge or machine and properties to make final product.
But we don't know which alloy it is. Metallurgy is highly classified!

If you are making outer plates for cover or armour, you don't know that who's making lining!!
My friend has worked for indigenous torpedo launcher for Varunastra.

 

[captscooby81]

DRDO tested some type of Laser Beam technology last year ..

 

[indiatester]

I thought the refusal to confirm was in 2015 by Manohar Parrikar. Is there any new statement by GoI?

 

[Kshatriya87]

I thought the refusal to confirm was in 2015 by Manohar Parrikar. Is there any new statement by GoI?

Of course its national security. But its also national defense. Why not sharing? Maybe a foreign hand trying to sabotage the project? Maybe do not want to reveal that the KALI is already active or very close?

 

[Prashant12]

India gets a step closer to laser weaponry as DRDO successfully tests laser system



NEW DELHI: In a leap towards building laser weapons capability, India has made a breakthrough in its efforts to develop directed energy weapons, or DEWs, that can potentially end future wars before they begin.

It’s not exactly what we saw in Star Wars films or Flash Gordon comics decades ago, but DEWs such as high powered lasers can destroy enemy missiles, aircraft and advanced weaponry based on electronic circuitry.

India’s primary defence research organisation Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) recently conducted a successful test of a laser system mounted on a truck, and plans are now afoot to create a more powerful laser with a longer range, people familiar with the development told ET.

Private companies such as Kalyani Group and Rolls-Royce are also looking to develop or build DEWs in the country. DEWs are weapons that produce a beam of concentrated electromagnetic energy. There are mainly two types of DEWs: high powered lasers and microwaves. DEWs are anti-personnel as they can cause intolerable burning of an area in the body and blindness, and anti-material as it can be used to destroy missiles, ships, UAVs and fry circuitry of equipment deployed in a battlefield.

While information is not available on whether India is developing microwave weapons, DRDO tested a 1KW laser weapon system mounted on a truck at Chitradurga in Karnataka towards August end. “The laser beam hit a target located 250 metres away,” an official said. “It took 36 seconds for it to make a hole in the metal sheet.” The test was conducted in the presence of then defence minister Arun Jaitley, the person said.

The next step is to test a higher powered laser, 2KW, mounted on the truck against a metal sheet located at a distance of 1 km. Two DRDO laboratories — Centre for High Energy Systems and Sciences (CHESS) and Laser Science & Technology Centre (LASTEC) — are currently working on developing the source for generating the laser, officials said. At present, the source of the laser, which is the “heart of the system”, is imported from Germany.

Other challenges include developing a cooling mechanism for the system that heats up when the laser beam is fired, ensuring a focused beam towards a distant target and optoelectronics, or optronics, involving lenses to create that focus, they said. “The weapon is not ready yet and it will take years for it to happen,” said an official. DRDO did not officially respond to a questionnaire on the subject sent by ET to it as of press time Wednesday.

Private companies too are looking to enter DEW space. A senior official at Kalyani Group said Kalyani Centre for Technology and Innovation is in the “initial stages” of developing DEWs. “We are identifying two segments: ‘lethality’ to kill and ‘survivability’ aimed at destroying incoming missiles,” the person told ET. “We will initially be working on the latter and are setting up a lab in Pune.”

Rolls-Royce’s global strategic marketing director Ben Story, in a conversation with ET had recently said that there are “conversations” happening between the company and India on DEWs.

A release by Press Information Bureau back in December 2013 had confirmed that DRDO’s CHESS and LASTEC were researching on DEWs and laser technology, respectively. A 2015 DRDO bulletin titled ‘Technology Focus’ stated that LASTEC with the help of a collaborator had developed a unit of 1kW ‘single mode fibre laser’ and work was on for developing 5kW and 9kW fibre laser sources.

LASTEC has also developed a 10kW Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) and is working on developing a 30-100 kW vehicle-mounted COIL system, sources said.


https://economictimes.indiatimes.co...y-tests-laser-system/articleshow/61954646.cms

 

[porky_kicker]

India gets a step closer to laser weaponry as DRDO successfully tests laser system



NEW DELHI: In a leap towards building laser weapons capability, India has made a breakthrough in its efforts to develop directed energy weapons, or DEWs, that can potentially end future wars before they begin.

It’s not exactly what we saw in Star Wars films or Flash Gordon comics decades ago, but DEWs such as high powered lasers can destroy enemy missiles, aircraft and advanced weaponry based on electronic circuitry.

India’s primary defence research organisation Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) recently conducted a successful test of a laser system mounted on a truck, and plans are now afoot to create a more powerful laser with a longer range, people familiar with the development told ET.

Private companies such as Kalyani Group and Rolls-Royce are also looking to develop or build DEWs in the country. DEWs are weapons that produce a beam of concentrated electromagnetic energy. There are mainly two types of DEWs: high powered lasers and microwaves. DEWs are anti-personnel as they can cause intolerable burning of an area in the body and blindness, and anti-material as it can be used to destroy missiles, ships, UAVs and fry circuitry of equipment deployed in a battlefield.

While information is not available on whether India is developing microwave weapons, DRDO tested a 1KW laser weapon system mounted on a truck at Chitradurga in Karnataka towards August end. “The laser beam hit a target located 250 metres away,” an official said. “It took 36 seconds for it to make a hole in the metal sheet.” The test was conducted in the presence of then defence minister Arun Jaitley, the person said.

The next step is to test a higher powered laser, 2KW, mounted on the truck against a metal sheet located at a distance of 1 km. Two DRDO laboratories — Centre for High Energy Systems and Sciences (CHESS) and Laser Science & Technology Centre (LASTEC) — are currently working on developing the source for generating the laser, officials said. At present, the source of the laser, which is the “heart of the system”, is imported from Germany.

Other challenges include developing a cooling mechanism for the system that heats up when the laser beam is fired, ensuring a focused beam towards a distant target and optoelectronics, or optronics, involving lenses to create that focus, they said. “The weapon is not ready yet and it will take years for it to happen,” said an official. DRDO did not officially respond to a questionnaire on the subject sent by ET to it as of press time Wednesday.

Private companies too are looking to enter DEW space. A senior official at Kalyani Group said Kalyani Centre for Technology and Innovation is in the “initial stages” of developing DEWs. “We are identifying two segments: ‘lethality’ to kill and ‘survivability’ aimed at destroying incoming missiles,” the person told ET. “We will initially be working on the latter and are setting up a lab in Pune.”

Rolls-Royce’s global strategic marketing director Ben Story, in a conversation with ET had recently said that there are “conversations” happening between the company and India on DEWs.

A release by Press Information Bureau back in December 2013 had confirmed that DRDO’s CHESS and LASTEC were researching on DEWs and laser technology, respectively. A 2015 DRDO bulletin titled ‘Technology Focus’ stated that LASTEC with the help of a collaborator had developed a unit of 1kW ‘single mode fibre laser’ and work was on for developing 5kW and 9kW fibre laser sources.

LASTEC has also developed a 10kW Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) and is working on developing a 30-100 kW vehicle-mounted COIL system, sources said.


https://economictimes.indiatimes.co...y-tests-laser-system/articleshow/61954646.cms

i believe this one was tested ,as LASTEC ADITYA was a technology demonstrator for proving beam control technology

 

[Vinod DX9]

Now this is a great achievement, but we have to do fast

 

[aditya10r]

Now this is a great achievement, but we have to do fast

Can it be deployed on warships for air defense role??????

I mean after it matures.

 

[patriots]

Can it be deployed on warships for air defense role??????

I mean after it matures.

first we should depoy ...in loc .
may be after that pak will not violate ceasefire