High-power mobile chemical lasers

The prospects of equipping mobile carriers with continuous wave chemical lasers (cw CLs), which continue to be the most powerful sources of laser radiation providing the highest energy efficiency and a high optical quality of the beam, are considered. The technological problems involved in such a procedure, whose solution leads to the determination of real technical parameters of autonomous mobile laser systems, are discussed. It is shown that the technical parameters of real lasers must reflect the features of their installation and exploitation under conditions differing radically from the conditions in laboratories where their investigations are being continued.