{"id":3879,"date":"2014-08-14T20:28:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T18:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2014-08-14T21:08:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T19:08:06","slug":"from-iron-dome-to-iron-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=3879","title":{"rendered":"From Iron Dome to Iron Beam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From Iron Dome to Iron Beam<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

This is how an Iron Beam anti-missile battery might look. Photo illustration courtesy of AIN Online.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The next anti-missile strategy from Rafael reportedly will take out missiles, mortars and even drones using high-energy laser.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2005, Brig. Gen. Daniel Gold proposed a missile-defense system to a skeptical Israeli defense establishment. Gold headed R&D at the Ministry of Defense at the time, and was ready to go it alone with private funding if the powers-that-be didn\u2019t buy into his vision. They eventually did, assigning the project to Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

The resulting Iron Dome changed the face of two wars \u20132012\u2019s Operation Pillar of Defense and Protective Edge in 2014 \u2013 and Gold won the Israel Defense Prize for spearheading the project, whose breathtaking effectiveness at interception saved countless lives as nearly 3,500 missiles were fired at Israel over a month\u2019s time this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israelis have shown their love for Iron Dome in creative ways, from Iron Dome tattoos and videos to an (unsuccessful, so far) Indiegogo campaign to create Iron Dome condoms with 25 percent of the proceeds going to the IDF. Iron Dome t-shirts and sweatshirts are selling well at Tel Aviv\u2019s Carmel Market.<\/span><\/p>\n

But in future wars \u2013 whether with Hamas in the Gaza Strip or elsewhere \u2013 Israel\u2019s defense planners will have to come up with improved solutions to counter the undoubtedly upgraded weapons coming from its adversaries. So what\u2019s next?<\/span><\/p>\n

How about lasers instead of rockets?<\/span><\/p>\n

Rafael is now hard at work on the \u201cIron Beam\u201d high-energy laser (HEL) system, which can take out missiles, mortars and even drones. The land-based system was unveiled at the Singapore Air Show earlier this year. It uses a pair of multi-kilowatt solid-state lasers to knock out incoming projectiles up to a range of about two kilometers. The prototype is mounted on a truck, but it could be fitted to an armored vehicle as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Iron Beam\u2019s radar detects an incoming missile, a thermal camera takes over the tracking until the missile is engaged by two HELs at once. The lasers focus their beams on an area about the size of a coin and currently have a power of tens of kilowatts. That\u2019s expected to increase to hundreds of kilowatts in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iron Beam is far from completion and only 100 test firings have taken place so far with a very good success rate, according to an interview with Rafael\u2019s deputy general manager of marketing and business development in Jane\u2019s Defense Weekly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more<\/span> From Iron Dome to Iron Beam<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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