{"id":242721,"date":"2021-09-15T07:48:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T07:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=242721"},"modified":"2021-09-16T05:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T05:53:55","slug":"laser-weapons-to-be-fitted-on-uk-warships-and-armoured-vehicles-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=242721","title":{"rendered":"Laser weapons to be fitted on UK warships and armoured vehicles for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sdc-article-image__caption-text\">The first laser will be put on board a Royal Navy Type 23 frigate<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Deborah Haynes \u2013 Sky News Sept 15, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Laser weapons will be fitted to a British warship and armoured vehicles for the first time in a test that could &#8220;revolutionise the battlefield&#8221;, the Ministry of Defence has said.<\/p>\n<p>So-called radio frequency weapons, which use electromagnetic energy to disable electronic systems, will also be included in three contracts worth around \u00a372.5m.<\/p>\n<p>The money will be used to build demonstrators that will test the capabilities before they are cleared for regular use.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Quin, the defence minister in charge of procurement, said: &#8220;Directed Energy Weapons are a key element of our future equipment programmes and we intend to become a world-leader in the research, manufacture and implementation of this next-generation technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The systems are powered by electricity and operate without ammunition &#8211; meaning that are cheaper to run as well as offering the armed forces futuristic fire power that sounds more like science fiction than real life.<\/p>\n<p data-role=\"ad-label\"><span data-label-text=\"Advertisement\">The first laser will be put on board a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/royal-navy-6337\">Royal Navy<\/a><\/strong> Type 23 frigate to be used against drones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another laser will be fitted to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/army-7003\">army&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> Wolfhound armoured vehicles. It will also be tested against drones and other aerial threats.<\/p>\n<p>The radio frequency demonstrator will be put on an army truck and deployed against &#8220;a variety of air, land and sea targets&#8221;, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/ministry-of-defence-7264\">MoD<\/a><\/strong> said, without specifying further.<\/p>\n<p>The three contracts for the directed energy weapons &#8211; each lasting four years &#8211; were awarded to a consortia headed by Thales and Raytheon UK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/laser-weapons-to-be-fitted-on-uk-warships-and-armoured-vehicles-for-first-time-12408270\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first laser will be put on board a Royal Navy Type 23 frigate to be used against drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":242724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Fringe_Science_New_Discoveries_and_Developments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242725,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242721\/revisions\/242725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/242724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}