What the Hell is a chemical laser used for in warfare?

Question

Someone has just suggested that Israel is getting them from u.s.a. .....Is that true?

Answer 1

A chemical laser is a laser that obtains its energy from a chemical reaction. Chemical lasers can achieve continuous wave output with power reaching to megawatt levels. They are used in industry for cutting and drilling, and in military as directed energy weapons.

In a chemical laser, a suitable chemical reaction produces a stream of gas rich of excited atoms or molecules. Another gas is then injected to this stream, and either reacts with those particles, producing an excited molecule (hydrogen or deuterium with fluorine radicals in hydrogen fluoride laser), or takes energy from the excited particle (iodine molecules from singlet oxygen in COIL laser). These excited molecules then form a population inversion, and in the optical resonator region of the laser then undergo stimulated emission, producing a powerful beam of coherent laser radiation.

Common examples of chemical lasers are the chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL), all gas-phase iodine laser (AGIL), and the hydrogen fluoride laser and deuterium fluoride laser, both operating in mid-infrared region. There is also a DF-CO laser (deuterium fluoride-carbon dioxide), which, like COIL, is a "transfer laser".

Answer 2

Chemical lasers are simply lasers produced by a mixture of chemicals.

Lasers are used for target designation and range finding.

Laser guided bombs home in on laser beams aimed at a target and "ride the beam" into the target.

Laser ranging is highly accurate and can assist in accurate attacks using "dumb" bombs.

Marked Target Seeking is used when a seperate unit (usually infantry) "paints" a target with a laser. The seeker can lock onto this beam, and then launch it's payload at the target.

The americans have tha "Star wars" laser project, that could shoot down ICBM's but they won't share that with Israel.


Overall, they're not used as an offensive weapon, more as a support system and aiming system

Answer 3

jeff j is absolutly right, its the expression given to the medium through which the energy is amplified. Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation(LASER). as for users, range finding, target illumination.
I fault find and repair them for the British Army

Answer 4

Using chemicals in lasers to have a more disastrous damage by spreading chemicals at the targets.

Answer 5

chemical lasers increase the range, power and accuracy of lasers. the lasers are used to light up targets for air strikes.

Answer 6

It is a laser that guides bombs accurately to their target.

Answer 7

its the cooling and focus for anti satellite warfare,fry the circuits.

Answer 8

To illuminate targets for air strikes / satellite observation

Possibly to blind enemy soldiers?

Answer 9

to put on frickin sharks heads to kill spys, frickin idiot

Answer 10

Killing people.