Directed Energy Weapons
A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy, including laser, microwaves, and particle beams. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices.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. These systems of missile defense are expected to come online no sooner than the mid to late-2020s.Russia, China, India, and the …
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CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 5 April 2024 English
While the USA and India continue to affirm the need for a strategic partnership, there were frictions related to the US’ and Canada’s soft approach to some elements inimical to …
precision guided munitions, hypersonic threat, directed energy weapons, and better electronic warfare and cyber …
CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 3 April 2024 English
The most effective of all measures such as the TPNWThe most effective of all measures that measures that could be are supported.could be taken – and indeed the logical taken …
Satellites may be destroyed or rendered directed energy weapons, on-orbit capabilities, inoperable through …
FPRI: Foreign Policy Research Institute · 1 April 2024 English
This article is based on an earlier work by Mr. Regenstein published in the Association of Former Intelligence Officers magazine Intelligencer, The Journal of
bragging about new types of neurological or directed energy weapons. In April 2012, Russian Defense Minister … Syndrome, may have their origin in the use of directed energy weapons.” It describes new, heretofore unreported …
CNA: Center for Naval Analyses · 1 April 2024 English
By analytical black box during the Cold War.7 Therefore, contrast, in the 1980s, the military’s influence in the 1970s and 1980s, US scholars and academics seemed to wane as the …
military officials have argued for the directed energy weapons,” among others.178 Chief need to agree …
IEEE: Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos · 20 March 2024
Durante años se ha empleado y quizá se ha abusado; del término “mundo en transición”; tras el final de la Guerra Fría. Muchas veces para huir de la necesidad de …
(Martínez Cortés, 2023). 8 DEW, del inglés Directed Energy Weapons, y HPM, del inglés High-Powered Microwave … Strategy Estrategia Espacial de Defensa DEW Directed Energy Weapons Armas/Sistemas de Energía Dirigida EW Electronic …
RAND Corporation · 13 March 2024 English
Drones represent a serious emerging threat to the safety and security of U.S. correctional institutions. Conspirators are using drones to introduce large amounts of contraband, such as drugs and cell …
hacking, spoofing, and nondestructive directed-energy weapons to dis- rupt or disable drones (U.S. Department …
American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 7 March 2024 English
A publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that explores the traditional nuclear arms control regime, how it has become fractured over time, and the ways in which …
nonkinetic anti-satellite weapons—such as directed energy weapons—could have a similar effect.45 While useful …
RAND Corporation · 6 March 2024 English
RAND researchers used metrics and vignettes to assess and illustrate the value and complementarity of intermediate force capabilities, including non-lethal weapons, information operations, electromagnetic warfare, and cyber capabilities.
RAND Corporation · 6 March 2024 English
There are challenges, but also significant potential benefits, in integrating intermediate force capabilities—a suite of systems that includes non-lethal weapons, electromagnetic warfare, cyber, and information operations—into wargames.
IEEE: Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos · 5 March 2024 Spanish
Durante años se ha empleado y quizá se ha abusado; del término “mundo en transición”; tras el final de la Guerra Fría. Muchas veces para huir de la necesidad de …
(Martínez Cortés, 2023). 8 DEW, del inglés Directed Energy Weapons, y HPM, del inglés High-Powered Microwave … Strategy Estrategia Espacial de Defensa DEW Directed Energy Weapons Armas/Sistemas de Energía Dirigida EW Electronic …
