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How Lasers are Making Dangerous Air Flight Stages Safer
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The landing phase is the most intensive stage of an aircraft’s flight. According to Szondy (2021), up to 40% of crashes occur during this phase. This is likely due to the method of landing, in which pilots use visual cues and peripheral vision to judge their landing. These cues can be inaccurate or hard to see in situations of poor visibility. AirText, a company already versed in aircraft hardware, is using its new product, Land-DAR, to make this phase simpler and safer for small aircraft.
The Standard Methods of Landing an Aircraft
The program may have ultimately failed, but laser research continues.
Here s What You Need to Know: The Air Force wanted lasers to shoot down ICBMs.
Missile defense is really hard. It has been compared to hitting a bullet with another bullet, and is inherently unreliable. According to Scientific American, the U.S. Ground-based Midcourse Defense ”remains the sole system designed to counter intercontinental ballistic missiles. Its 44 silo-based interceptors in Alaska and California are designed to be guided by space, ground and sea-based sensors to collide with an incoming warhead and destroy it with the force of impact.”
The GMD system has a poor track record. “Only about half of the 18 intercept tests since 1999 successfully destroyed their targets, and the test record has not improved with time: only two of the last five tests were successful and GMD has still has not been tested under operationally realistic conditions.” Not exactly reassuring.
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