标题: Airborne-Laser Fails a 2nd Test Today [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 10-21-2010 11:06 标题: Airborne-Laser Fails a 2nd Test Today 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
, but it is not because laser is not powerful enough. In fact, laser never shoots.
News release: Airborne Laser Test Bed Exercise Conducted. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Oct. 21, 2010.
http://www.mda.mil/news/10news0014.html
----------------------Separately
(1) Tom Vanden Brook, More troops surviving IEDs; Pluses: Better Care in Afghan Battlefield, Speedier Medevac. USA Today, Oct. 20, 2010 (title in the print).
http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2010-10-20-1Abattlefielddeaths20_ST_N.htm
(2) Carlotta Gall, Afghan Campaign Ousting Taliban From Kandahar; NATO Remains Cautious; Allied Operation Forces Insurgents to Retreat Into Pakistan. New York Times, Oct. 21, 2010 (title in the print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/world/asia/21kandahar.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=afghanitan%20rocket&st=cse
Quote:
(a) "Some of the gains seem to have come from a new mobile rocket that has pinpoint accuracy — like a small cruise missile — and has been used against the hideouts of insurgent commanders around Kandahar. That has forced many of them to retreat across the border into Pakistan. Disruption of their supply lines has made it harder for them to stage retaliatory strikes or suicide bombings, at least for the moment, officials and residents said.
(b) "Yet residents say that the Taliban have been stunned by fast-paced raids on their leaders and bases. In particular they talk with awe of a powerful new rocket that has been fired from the Kandahar air base into Panjwai and other areas for the last two or three weeks, hitting Taliban compounds with remarkable accuracy.
"The rocket curls and turns in the air as it zooms in on its target and sets off secondary explosions, often burning the trees and foliage around buildings, one landowner from the Panjwai District said.
"In an interview, General Carter said the weapon the Afghans saw was most likely the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or Himars, a relatively new multiple rocket system. 'They are extraordinarily precise; they are accurate to a meter,' he said.
My comment:
(a) Please read only the quote and take a look at the graphic.
(b) High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). Lockheed Martin, undated.
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/products/himars/index.html