据美国国防远景研究计划局局长海尔迈尔(G. H. Heilmeier)说,研制可能用于防御敌方航天飞船的卫星运载的高能化学激光,其动机系因该局认为这一成就在政治上的影响与苏联发射第一个人造卫星事件类似。这位国防部宫员在向国会作1978财政年度形势报告中表达了这个观点。海尔迈尔说,在该局的主办下,高能激光在航天器上和以地面和水面为基地的应用都有重大进展。包括: According to GH Heilmeier, director of the National Defense Vision Research Program, the motivation for the development of high-energy chemical lasers that could be used to defend enemy spacecraft from satellites is due to the council’s political impact The Soviet launch of the first satellite was similar. The Defense Department official expressed this view in his annual report to Congress on the fiscal year of 1978. Haiermaier said that under the auspices of the Bureau, significant advances have been made in the use of high-energy lasers on spacecraft and ground-based and surface-based applications. include: