Although the Navy hopes to get low prices. Efficient ship-based missile defense system. But since the 2011 financial year. Its R&D expenditure on solid-state lasers has been relatively stable. At its peak, it reached approximately US$400 million. The overall budget of the laser project has now dropped to 350 million US dollars. The use of laser pointer and other directed energy weapons can reverse this trend, which is beneficial to the military because the cost of launching such weapons is very low and the number of launches is almost unlimited, said Ronald O'Rourke, an expert on naval affairs in Congress. The navy uses expensive weapons and ammunition to strike back at targets—they are incoming missiles, small assault boats, and coastal defense systems—even if these targets are destroyed, it will only cost the enemy very little. "Ronald O'Rourke said at the Marshall Institute seminar. This is not an affordable game. If you need to continue this game through a lot of fighting, you will soon find yourself in this economic equation. The downside.
The use of electrically driven lasers on naval ships has many advantages. One of them is that the number of launches is very large. "For example, when shooting at enemy small ships and drones. The use of lasers can help keep the more costly weapons equipped on warships. They can be used to attack a limited number of targets that really require the use of these weapons." Ronald O'Rourke said. Compared with missiles that only produce explosions, lasers provide far more than just countering threats in the air. The laser system allows commanders to choose from a menu of graded lethality with tactical flexibility. All U.S. services have their own development roadmap that outlines the development of directed energy weapons and combat plans. For example, the Air Force tested an airborne chemical oxygen-iodine laser installed on a modified Boeing 747-400F aircraft on August 23, 2007, which was prepared to counter tactical ballistic missiles. Tests have shown that the aircraft's onboard laser system can perform all tasks of intercepting ballistic missiles. At the time, the Director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) of the Ministry of Defense and Air Force Lieutenant General Henry Obelin called the test a "critical milestone" in the airborne laser program. On September 7, 2008, the megawatt-level chemical oxygen-iodine laser installed on an airplane emitted laser light for the first time. Its time is only a fraction of a second. It marks that the project has reached a new major milestone. November 26, 2008. The chemical oxygen iodine laser mounted on the carrier aircraft fired laser light for the first time on the ground through the beam control system and the turret mounted on the nose of the aircraft.
The red laser pointer is the simplest because the laser diode can be used as a full 650nm or 635nm laser diode. It's nothing more than batteries, red laser diodes and circuit boards. Many different laser pointers claim to have engraving capabilities, but the point is that any laser less than 200mW has no chance to truly provide engraving capabilities. Generally, you need 200mW + to truly provide a powerful laser beam and more power for non-green colors such as purple and red. In other words, the brightness of any 200mW green laser pointer is at least 7 times that of any other 200mW color laser.