Peresvet laser complex

In 2012, the source [1] reported that in the RFNC-VNIITF (Snezhinsk) a gas laser pumped by a nuclear reactor operating at the atomic xenon transition with a wavelength of 2.03 μm was created. The output energy of the laser pulse was 500 J at a peak power of 1.3 MW. This device is the most compact in terms of the volume of active gas medium used (specific laser radiation energy was 32 J / dm³)

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A 520 J pulsed gas laser (laser module) was created, pumped by fission products of uranium nuclei, operating at the atomic transition of xenon 5d [3/2] 1 -> 6p [3/2] 1 , with a wavelength of 2.03 mum. The experiments were carried out on the BARS-5 + RUN-2 complex (Fast aperiodic self-quenching reactor and Reactor neutron multiplier). The specific energy of laser radiation obtained in the experiments was ~ 32 J / dm 3 at an efficiency of ~ 3% (the ratio of the output energy of the laser pulse to the energy transferred to the gas medium by fission fragments).

- Russian Federal Nuclear Center --- All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics named after Acad. E.I. Zababakhina, Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region, Russia

http://journals.ioffe.ru/articles/14525

magnumcromagnon wrote:Peresvet may actually be a nuclear-pump-laser, and its acknowledgement may have been indirectly confirmed back in 2012 in Russian scientific literature. It would make practical sense that a nuclear powered laser would also be a nuclear-pump-laser as well. It was confirmed the power was 1MW (like what I speculated) which leads me to believe that it is indeed Peresvet.

In 2012, the source [1] reported that in the RFNC-VNIITF (Snezhinsk) a gas laser pumped by a nuclear reactor operating at the atomic xenon transition with a wavelength of 2.03 μm was created. The output energy of the laser pulse was 500 J at a peak power of 1.3 MW. This device is the most compact in terms of the volume of active gas medium used (specific laser radiation energy was 32 J / dm³)

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A 520 J pulsed gas laser (laser module) was created, pumped by fission products of uranium nuclei, operating at the atomic transition of xenon 5d [3/2] 1 -> 6p [3/2] 1 , with a wavelength of 2.03 mum. The experiments were carried out on the BARS-5 + RUN-2 complex (Fast aperiodic self-quenching reactor and Reactor neutron multiplier). The specific energy of laser radiation obtained in the experiments was ~ 32 J / dm 3 at an efficiency of ~ 3% (the ratio of the output energy of the laser pulse to the energy transferred to the gas medium by fission fragments).

- Russian Federal Nuclear Center --- All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics named after Acad. E.I. Zababakhina, Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region, Russia

http://journals.ioffe.ru/articles/14525

magnumcromagnon wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:Peresvet may actually be a nuclear-pump-laser, and its acknowledgement may have been indirectly confirmed back in 2012 in Russian scientific literature. It would make practical sense that a nuclear powered laser would also be a nuclear-pump-laser as well. It was confirmed the power was 1MW (like what I speculated) which leads me to believe that it is indeed Peresvet.

In 2012, the source [1] reported that in the RFNC-VNIITF (Snezhinsk) a gas laser pumped by a nuclear reactor operating at the atomic xenon transition with a wavelength of 2.03 μm was created. The output energy of the laser pulse was 500 J at a peak power of 1.3 MW. This device is the most compact in terms of the volume of active gas medium used (specific laser radiation energy was 32 J / dm³)

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A 520 J pulsed gas laser (laser module) was created, pumped by fission products of uranium nuclei, operating at the atomic transition of xenon 5d [3/2] 1 -> 6p [3/2] 1 , with a wavelength of 2.03 mum. The experiments were carried out on the BARS-5 + RUN-2 complex (Fast aperiodic self-quenching reactor and Reactor neutron multiplier). The specific energy of laser radiation obtained in the experiments was ~ 32 J / dm 3 at an efficiency of ~ 3% (the ratio of the output energy of the laser pulse to the energy transferred to the gas medium by fission fragments).

- Russian Federal Nuclear Center --- All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics named after Acad. E.I. Zababakhina, Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region, Russia

http://journals.ioffe.ru/articles/14525

Some wild guesses here. But Im guessing one of the reasons why Peresvet's program got greenlighted is because the laser is boosted with other forms of electromagnetic radiation, including microwaves and gamma radiation, which might allow it to perform the duties of DEW and ECM all in one package. So theoretically speaking Peresvet may actually be both a Laser and a Maser.

Automotive chassis nuclear reactor designs presented

At the military-technical forum “Army-2019”, the research and design institute (NIKIET) named after N.A. Dollezhal presented projects of unique reactor installations, including on a car chassis. These are promising installations that, if implemented, will significantly expand the boundaries of peaceful uses of nuclear energy.



What installations are you talking about?

We are talking about promising designs of reactor plants of relatively small nuclear power plants: ATGOR, Shelf, Vityaz and UNITERM.

Earlier it was reported that such mobile nuclear reactors (auto nuclear power plants) can be used in areas with limited electric power resources - remote settlements. Mini-nuclear plants make it possible to reduce the cost of electricity, since the kilowatt-hours generated by a mobile reactor will cost about 1.5-1.7 times cheaper than the same kilowatt-hours produced by diesel-fueled diesel plants, which have to be brought in hundreds of km .

The reactor is equipped on a car chassis - in a protected capsule. According to some reports, it is planned to use an autonomous cooling system.

Today, NIKIET, which is part of Rosatom Corporation, acts as the chief designer of research reactors in the Russian Federation with a capacity of 100 MW (these are the SM-3, MIR, PIK units), the IBR-2 fast rector, and the MBIR multi-purpose fast reactor under construction.

https://topwar.ru/159438-predstavleny-proekty-jadernyh-reaktorov-na-avtomobilnom-shassi.html

magnumcromagnon wrote:

Automotive chassis nuclear reactor designs presented

At the military-technical forum “Army-2019”, the research and design institute (NIKIET) named after N.A. Dollezhal presented projects of unique reactor installations, including on a car chassis. These are promising installations that, if implemented, will significantly expand the boundaries of peaceful uses of nuclear energy.



What installations are you talking about?

We are talking about promising designs of reactor plants of relatively small nuclear power plants: ATGOR, Shelf, Vityaz and UNITERM.

Earlier it was reported that such mobile nuclear reactors (auto nuclear power plants) can be used in areas with limited electric power resources - remote settlements. Mini-nuclear plants make it possible to reduce the cost of electricity, since the kilowatt-hours generated by a mobile reactor will cost about 1.5-1.7 times cheaper than the same kilowatt-hours produced by diesel-fueled diesel plants, which have to be brought in hundreds of km .

The reactor is equipped on a car chassis - in a protected capsule. According to some reports, it is planned to use an autonomous cooling system.

Today, NIKIET, which is part of Rosatom Corporation, acts as the chief designer of research reactors in the Russian Federation with a capacity of 100 MW (these are the SM-3, MIR, PIK units), the IBR-2 fast rector, and the MBIR multi-purpose fast reactor under construction.

https://topwar.ru/159438-predstavleny-proekty-jadernyh-reaktorov-na-avtomobilnom-shassi.html

thegopnik wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:

Automotive chassis nuclear reactor designs presented



https://topwar.ru/159438-predstavleny-proekty-jadernyh-reaktorov-na-avtomobilnom-shassi.html

I am foaming from the mouth from this exciting news. thanks.

PhSt wrote:

thegopnik wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:

Automotive chassis nuclear reactor designs presented



https://topwar.ru/159438-predstavleny-proekty-jadernyh-reaktorov-na-avtomobilnom-shassi.html

I am foaming from the mouth from this exciting news. thanks.

Perhaps you celebrate too soon. When Navalny and his Liberat hordes takes over Russia all these projects will be thrown to the garbage bin and Russia will be broken into a minimum of 100+ independent and democratic republics.

Peresvet combat laser system will be placed on an aircraft carrier



Deputy Minister of Defense Alexei Krivoruchko also said that in 2020 they plan to complete the development work on the creation of a laser complex for the destruction of drones and the incapacitation of light-weighted surface targets

MOSCOW, December 28. / TASS /. The Peresvet ground-based combat laser system will be airborne in the coming years. This was announced on Saturday by Russian Deputy Minister of Defense Alexei Krivoruchko in an interview with the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda.
“We are working to increase the capacity of the Peresvet complex. In the coming years, it is planned to place it on an aircraft carrier,” he said.
According to him, in terms of creating laser weapons next year, it is planned to "complete the design and development work on creating a tactical laser complex for destroying unmanned aerial vehicles and incapacitating light-armed surface targets in the interests of solving the tasks of the Ground Forces, Airborne Forces and the Navy."
The complex will have a modular principle of building basic systems, which in the long run will allow for a phased increase in the power and range of targets, said the deputy minister. Equipment is being actively equipped with laser systems for protecting the airborne defense systems of strategic, tactical and army aircraft against damage from ground-to-air and air-to-air missiles with optical homing heads. In the interests of the Ground Forces, in 2020 the ROC is completing the creation of a portable automated complex of optoelectronic countermeasures for counter-observation and aiming, and counteracting them with laser radiation.

https://vpk.name/news/361133_boevoi_lazernyi_kompleks_peresvet_razmestyat_na_aviacionnom_nositele.html

GarryB wrote:Does he mean on an aircraft or does he mean on an aircraft carrier?

There are very specific connotations to each...

To mount on an aircraft would be to give it mobility... which suggests it will be used widely to engage a wide variety of targets... with their IADS being upgraded to deal with drones then I suspect they will end up with a better ability to detect drones than to destroy them for a while while they increase their numbers of smaller cheaper SAMs and get them widely deployed. An airborne laser would be rather useful in such a situation to hit large numbers of drones fairly quickly... smaller lighter drones should be rather vulnerable to such a weapon... if you imagine a flock of birds, a beam would not target one bird at a time, but would deal with a column of birds... obviously an exploding projectile would kill them in greater volumes much faster... but the laser could also be used to destroy any larger higher flying platforms that might be directing or monitoring the swarm... even if it was a satellite...

If he actually means an aircraft carrier (which, with the pictures show suggest the reporter has mistaken for an aircraft that carries the system) then that would explain why it was first used with mobile ICBM units... they want to hide and they want to protect themselves from eyes in the sky and eyes in space and also rather high speed rather long range weapons like hypersonic missiles in development in Russia but also in other places too.

A laser system with an ICBM unit can neutralise optics in space and aircraft and also on the ground nearby that might be tracking them, and presumably can also, in the future, be used to intercept incoming threats like missiles. As a first gen weapon it might just dazzle optics in space, while it could destroy optics on the ground or close by, and it might use different frequencies to damage the electronics inside incoming missiles as well as heat up a small area on the surface to weaken it... like material on the last Space Shuttle crash came off during take off and damaged some heat shielding... it was not important in space but during reentry the weak point destroyed the entire aircraft... the heat shielding is there because it needs to be there, so even removing a square centimetre can be fatal to the incoming weapon if it is flying fast enough and its own speed will destroy it.

With a laser it does not matter if the incoming weapon is moving at 3km/s... from a distance and when the weapon is heading towards you its relative angle change is almost zero. If it was heading past you flying to hit another target it would be moving fast but still could be followed and lased because while it is travelling fast it is not slowing up or down very much so its speed will be pretty steady and turning left or right or climbing or descending wont change is position relative to your perspective (heading towards you or heading past you) that would make it difficult for an automated tracking system to follow you.

The main problem is having enough power and a powerful enough laser for the job.

So the question is... will this be an upgrade for the A-60 Soviet/Russian air borne laser system (which was previously a laser dazzler for satellites and optical airborne systems), or will it be fitted to the Kuznetsov as an upgrade?

I remember in the late 1980s there was a lot of talk and may I say outrage, that the Frunze... the new (at the time) Kirov class vessel was going to be fitted with a laser air defence system. They called it a blinding laser and implied it would be misused by the evil soviets against the pure innocent NATO heros in the air and at sea...

Turned out to be bollocks, though the do have some rather powerful and less than eye safe laser range finders in some of their optical systems fitted to some of their larger ships that the west has complained about...

flamming_python wrote:

Well that has been the going theory; although rather spy satellites than early warning. Else why equip the RVSN and missile regiments with these complexes? Just have them deployed independently to the optimal locations.

However the article makes references to blinding incoming missiles; so the purpose of the Peresvet at the moment appears to be more point-defense.

kvs wrote:If they are used as ASAT systems then it makes sense since a laser can reach an enemy satellite essentially instantaneously as compared to any
ASAT missile. The other aspect is the number of enemy satellites that the laser can engage. I suppose that it is more than one, that is, there
are more than one enemy satellites in the field of view.

I think we are seeing Russia develop a real SDI as opposed to the US fake.