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Drexlerexpands marketing,production of Drexon 1aser card media,p.3...Business Opportunities,Pp.4-5...  Siecor Optical Cables Fan-Out cable supports new applications;Mini-Bundle isreleased,p.6.  \n## AIR FORCE CONSIDERS HIGH-ENERGY LASER WEAPONS FOR NEXT GENERATION OF FIGHTER AIRCRAFI\n\nThe Air Force has begun evaluating high-energy laser(HEL)weapons as an alternative  \nto conventional guns and short-range missiles for its next generation of fighter aircraft.  \nThe effort is designated a \"conceptual design tradeoff\"by the Wright AeronauticalLaboratory,Dayton,Ohio,which manages the Air Force's exploratory development programs.This means that any study contractors receiving funds from the Air Force will createdesigns for aircraft capable of carrying 1aser we apons,but no actual aircraft are likelyto be built.  \nThe Air Force wants to find out whether lasers can provide the same firepower andlethality as missiles and guns within the same weight and volume constraints of the air-craft.For several years the Air Force has been considering a new generation of advancedtactical fighter aircraft to replace the current F-158 and F-16s when they become obsolete.Such a new technology aircraft,if it is ever approved,would be a logical candidate for anew technology weapon system.  \nUnder an exploratory development program known as PMRN 82-56,the Air Force is seek-ing contractors to study the possible designs,examine cost-effectiveness and comparelaser technologies to those involved in conventional aircraft.  \nAmong the technologies to be investigated are pulsed lasers(deuterium fluorine,hydrogen fluorine or iodine),laser fire control systems and innovative beam controls.Candidate laser weapon systems will then be judged on the basis of aircraft/laser weightand volume ratio,atmospheric propagation,pointing and tracking field of fire,lethalityand vehicle signature.  \nIn its advisory message to contractors,the Air Force notes that the tradeoffs wi11involve advanced supersonic and 1ow observable technologies.Supersonic speed at highMach numbers is considered essential for future fighters while low observability(the so-called Stealth technology)is likely to apply to bombers as wel1.  \nThe Air Force has been testing earlier technology gas dynamic lasers for more than5 years at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico,using a KC-135 as the test air-craft and achieving limited successes,according to the few details that have emerged fromthe highly classified program.The KC-135 is the military version of the Boeing 707 com-mercial jet so it is obvious that developing laser weapons small enough for fighter air-craft will require a major advance in both the basic laser technology and the comple-mentary technologies of on-board power and pointing and tracking,  \nThe KC-135 test aircraft,known as the Airborne Laser Laboratory,is said to havevalidated the concept of aircraft-mounted laser weapons,according to sources,but has yetto achieve spectacular results that would give the Air Force enough confidence to commit anew fighter program to laser weapons.  \nThe problem,a top-level Pentagon official told us,is that the United States has notgiven laser weapons anything like the priority the Soviets have.He estimates that theSoviets have 100,000 people working on HEL weapons and are spending $1 billion on the ef-fort every year while the United States has only 20,000 people and less than $300 milliona year devoted to HEL weapons.  \nThe thrust of laser weapons research in both countries is said to be aimed at space  \napplications,particularly anti-satellite weapons,and the Soviets are believed to have a¹-ready demonstrated relatively primitive operational systems.  \nThe Pent","cbCainHpUmC0ViTQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainHpUmC0ViTQ","pdf",2193943,"English","# AIR FORCE CONSIDERS HIGH-ENERGY LASER WEAPONS FOR NEXT GENERATION OF FIGHTER AIRCRAFT\n## VALTEC RESTRUCTURING PLACES DUTCH SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AS LIAISON TO V.P. 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