{"id":3879,"date":"2018-07-04T22:25:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T22:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2018-07-04T22:25:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T22:25:34","slug":"usaf-to-test-fighter-mounted-laser-guns-in-the-coming-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/07\/04\/usaf-to-test-fighter-mounted-laser-guns-in-the-coming-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"USAF TO TEST FIGHTER-MOUNTED LASER GUNS IN THE COMING WEEKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/F15-LASER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3880\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/F15-LASER.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1021\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/F15-LASER.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/F15-LASER-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/F15-LASER-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/F15-LASER-560x318.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/F15-LASER-260x148.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/07\/F15-LASER-160x91.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: UK Defence Journal<\/p>\n<p>By George Allison<\/p>\n<p>The US Air Force will shortly begin testing a laser that will be mounted on an F-15, an official has announced.<\/p>\n<p>Just a reminder, the laser operating F-15 will not at all look like the image above as that\u2019s from a game called \u2018Ace Combat\u2019. I thought it was cool. That is all, carry on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have got tests starting this summer and the flight tests next summer,\u201d Jeff Stanley, deputy assistant secretary of the US Air Force for science, technology and engineering, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are still some technical challenges that we have to overcome, mainly size, weight, power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/ukdefencejournal.org.uk\/us-air-force-to-test-fighter-mounted-lasers-in-the-coming-weeks\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: UK Defence Journal By George Allison The US Air Force will shortly begin testing a laser that will be mounted on an F-15, an official has announced. Just a reminder, the laser operating F-15 will not at all look like the image above as that\u2019s from a game called \u2018Ace Combat\u2019. I thought it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/07\/04\/usaf-to-test-fighter-mounted-laser-guns-in-the-coming-weeks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USAF TO TEST FIGHTER-MOUNTED LASER GUNS IN THE COMING WEEKS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3881,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/3881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}