{"id":109834,"date":"2017-12-04T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:55:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:55:38","slug":"a-solution-for-katyusha-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/04\/a-solution-for-katyusha-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"A Solution for the Katyusha Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"> <\/div>\n<p>Hizballah&#8217;s continuing rocket offensive against northern Israel will  probably speed deployment of the Skyguard rocket defense system, offered  by Northrop-Grumman. Skyguard is essentially an updated version of the  THAL (Tactical High Energy Laser) system, developed over the past decade  by U.S. and Israeli researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Repka at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensetech.org\/\">DefenseTech.org<\/a> provided some interesting details of THAL&#8217;s history just as the current  crises developed in the Middle East. As he notes, THAL showed great  promise in tests at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. But its  operational deployment was eventually slowed by operational and  logistical concerns. Generating the laser energy needed to zap incoming  rockets and artillery shells required hundreds of gallons of toxic  chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>And, if that weren&#8217;t enough, early THAL models were  extremely bulky. One version was housed in eight, 40-foot shipping  containers. Imagine trying to move a system that size around a  battlefield, or across the rugged terrain of northern Israel.  Eventually, the Israeli government dropped out of the program and the  U.S. put THAL on the backburner, in hopes that solid state electrical  laser technology would solve the environmental and logistical problems.<\/p>\n<p>So  far, the solid state lasers haven&#8217;t really panned out, and (in light of  the Hizballah threat), THAL\/Skyguard suddenly has a new lease on life.  Northrop-Grumman representatives recently met with Israeli officials,  and have proposed a slightly scaled-down version of the laser system, at  a cost of $200 million, plus $1,000 a shot. The contractor is currently  pursuing an export license for the system, which the Pentagon is almost  certain to approve. The IDF&#8217;s push into south Lebanon will mitigate the  current rocket problem (to some degree), but Israel needs a long-term,  technology-based solution.  Skyguard may not be the ultimate answer, but  it can provide a much-needed, short-term  defensive capability against  the Katyusha threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hizballah&#8217;s continuing rocket offensive against northern Israel will probably speed deployment of the Skyguard rocket defense system, offered by Northrop-Grumman. Skyguard is essentially an updated version of the THAL (Tactical High Energy Laser) system, developed over the past decade by U.S. and Israeli researchers. Jonathan Repka at DefenseTech.org provided some interesting details of THAL&#8217;s history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}