Laser weapons potentially eliminate many logistical problems in terms of ammunition supply, as long as there is enough energy to power them.Lasers travel at light-speed and have long range, making them suitable for use in space warfare.This makes aim much more precise and extends the range to line-of-sight, limited only by beam diffraction and spread (which dilute the power and weaken the effect), and absorption or scattering by intervening atmospheric contents. Light is, for practical purposes, unaffected by gravity, windage and Coriolis force, giving it an almost perfectly flat trajectory.Directed-energy weapons can be used discreetly radiation does not generate sound and is invisible if outside the visible spectrum.3.2.9 Alleged tracking of Space Shuttle Challengerĭirected energy weapons could have several main advantages over conventional weaponry:.3.2.6 East German "decomposition" methods.3.2.5 Northern Ireland "squawk box" field trials.3.2.4 Reported use in Sino-Soviet conflicts.3.2.3 German World War II experimental weapons.3.2.2 The fictional "engine-stopping ray".2.5.1 Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD).2.1.6 Counter-electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project.2.1.5 Active electronically scanned array.After decades of research and development, most directed-energy weapons are still at the experimental stage and it remains to be seen if or when they will be deployed as practical, high-performance military weapons. The first usage of directed-energy weapons in combat between military forces was claimed to have occurred in Libya in August 2019 by Turkey, which claimed to use the ALKA directed-energy weapon. Russia, China, India and the United Kingdom are also developing military grade directed-energy weapons while Iran and Turkey claim to have them in active service. The Electro-Magnetic Laboratory Rail Gun has been in testing since 2012. These systems of missile defense are expected to come online no sooner than the mid to late-2020s. In the United States, the Pentagon, DARPA, the Air Force Research Laboratory, United States Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center, and the Naval Research Laboratory are researching directed-energy weapons and railguns to counter ballistic missiles, hypersonic cruise missiles, and hypersonic glide vehicles. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices.
It is mounted on top of the central vehicle.Ī directed-energy weapon ( DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams.
A sonic (LRAD) directed-energy weapon deployed in a civilian context in the USA, 2014.
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