Navy Shipboard Lasers for Surface, Air, and Missile Defense: Background and Issues for Congress Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Navy Shipboard Lasers for Surface, Air, and Missile Defense: Background and Issues for Congress

Creator

  • Author: O'Rourke, Ronald
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Specialist in Naval Affairs

Publisher

  • Name: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
    Place of Publication: Washington D.C.

Date

  • Creation: 2010-12-09

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This report focuses on potential Navy shipboard lasers for countering surface, air, and ballistic missile threats. Department of Defense (DOD) development work on high-energy military lasers, which has been underway for decades, has reached the point where lasers capable of countering certain surface and air targets at ranges of about a mile could be made ready for installation on Navy surface ships over the next few years.
  • Physical Description: 53 pages.

Subject

  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Navy -- U.S.
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Defense economics
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Defense budgets
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Defense policy

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States

Collection

  • Name: Congressional Research Service Reports
    Code: CRSR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • CRS Report Number: R41526
  • Accession or Local Control No: R41526_2010Dec09
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc491522
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