British Dragonfire laser weapon test fired.
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 12:30 pm
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british ... ly-trials/MBDA and its partners in the DragonFire consortium say that they have successfully carried out the first static high-power laser firing of a sovereign UK capability at the range in Porton Down.
The test was carried out on the 17th October 2022.
Using QinetiQ’s phase-combined laser demonstrator, generating in the order of 50kW of power, focused by Leonardo’s Beam Director and delivered using MBDA’s advanced image processing and command and control (C2) system, the trials showed that DragonFire could safely control and focus a high power laser onto an extremely precise point at long range.
The firing was part of a second set of tests in a series of trials to prove the accuracy and power of the novel DragonFire laser weapon. The earlier set of trials, announced in July 2022, proved DragonFire can successfully track, and hit, air and sea targets with exceptionally high accuracy.