Israel Iron Beam: Israel has prepared a high energy weapon named Iron Beem. With its help, rockets, drones, mortars and aircraft flying at low height can be destroyed. The range is about 10 km. This can prevent air threats at low cost.
What is iron beam: Israel has completed the Test of High Energy Laser Defense System Iron Beam. It will be deployed by the end of 2025. It is seen as a big jump in modern war. The iron beam uses high power laser rays to destroy air risk. With this, rockets, drones, mortars and aircraft flying at low height can be destroyed in a moment. This reduces the cost of destroying air threats.
Iron beam attacks with laser instead of missile
In the traditional air defense system, the ground -to -air missiles are fired to destroy air threats. Israel has such a system called Iron Dome. Stopping them in the event of an attack from drones, rockets and mortars is more expensive. To destroy the rocket coming to attack, one has to fire a lot more valuable missiles. If there is a lot of target at one time, the missiles of the air defense system are finished.
Israel has prepared an iron beam to solve these problems. It is attacked with laser instead of missiles. It is less expensive. This can destroy more targets at a time. Iron Beam has been created by Israeli company Rafale Advanced Defense Systems. It was first brought to the world in 2014 to Singapore Airsho.
Iron beam will target rockets, mortar to aircraft
The iron beam is now ready to be deployed. In the final Test conducted for several weeks in southern Israel, the Iron Beam successfully ended a variety of targets including rockets, mortars, drones and even low height aircraft.
Why Iron Beam is being called a game changer?
If the traditional air defense system has to stop too much target at a time, its missiles are finished. Such was the situation in an attack on Israel by Hamas on 7 October 2023. Today’s use of drones in the fight has increased. Large flocks of drones come to attack together. In such a situation, it is difficult to kill everyone. Load missiles in the launcher of air defense systems may end.
Iron beams have been developed to deal with this situation. It uses high power laser to eradicate air threats. This system does not cause problems like missile ending. If the system continues to get electricity, it continues to thwart the air attack of the enemy. It also makes it cheaper by using laser. This is the reason why it is considered a game changer. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katj said,
The iron beam makes a faster, accurate attack at a nominal cost. This will change the equation by joining our existing defense system.
Iron beams will complement Israeli’s current air defense system
Israel already has air defense systems such as Iron Dome and Davids Sling or Arrow. The iron beam is not designed to replace them. This will connect with these air defense systems and add another layer to the multi -layer defense network and act like a supplement.
Iron Dome has been very effective in preventing rockets of groups such as Hamas in Gaza and Hizbullah in Lebanon, but it depends on expensive missile interceptors. Each of its missiles is priced at least $ 50,000 (Rs 44.13 lakh). During the fight, it becomes difficult to raise this cost over time when the enemy fired thousands of rockets and drones. Iron beam is a solution to this problem. It focuses on the dangers of short distance- such as small rockets, drones, mortars and similar low-cost weapons.
How does the iron beam works?
The main strength of the iron beam is in its fiber laser technology. It produces highly concentrated energy rays. When a danger is revealed, this system tracks it and puts laser rays on it. The energy of the laser destroys that target.
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It takes about four seconds or less time to destroy the laser energy. The range of this system is estimated to be 10 km. It can be deployed to protect cities, military bases or important infrastructure.
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