Directed Energy Weapons on the Battlefield: A New Vision For 2025
By LauraAboli
“DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS ON THE BATTLEFIELD: A NEW VISION FOR 2025” John P. Geis, II, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF – April 2003
“The current growth and development in this emerging area strongly suggests that directed energy weapons of lethal power will reach the battlefield before 2010.”
“Directed energy technologies are not new. Laser research began in earnest in the United States during the space race of the 1960s, and research in microwave physics can be traced back to the atomic energy program in the late 1930s. What is new is the power and energy output levels being achieved by devices in our laboratories and in the field. Recent developments include megawatt-class (millions of watts) continuous wave lasers that have shot down aerospace vehicles, and a system of lasers at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories that combine to produce a very short laser pulse with a peak power output of five quadrillion (5,000,000,000,000,000) watts.”
This paper was written in 2003. Imagine what they can do now!
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