Directedenergy weapons, the oncoming revolution in weaponry. This is a technical exposition, written at the undergraduate physics and engineering level that could serve either. A directedenergy weapon dew is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy, including laser, microwaves and particle beams. The department needs an authoritative single source data base for directed energy effects similar to the munitions effects manual for kinetic weapons.
Implications of a changing directedenergy weapons posture. In this interview with alfred lambremont webre, author of exopolitics and consultant to the carter administration regarding extraterrestrial communication, we learn how we can help defeat the. Directed energy weapons directed energy weapons take many forms. Effects of directed energy weapons nielsen, philip e on.
Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices. High power electromagnetic weapons, also referred to as high power radiofrequency hprf weapons, are a type of directed energy weapons. Little is known about the health effects of directed energy weapons because of limited publicly available data about their military testing. Directed energy weapons dew page targeted individuals. We have developed laser weapon systems, radio frequency and other directed energy technologies for air, ground and sea platforms to provide an affordable countermeasure alternative. This is a technical exposition, written at the undergraduate physics and engineering level that could serve either as.
Effects of directed energy weapons is an encyclopedic treatment of how directed energy weapons work, how the energy of these weapons is propagated to the target, and how the weapon beamtarget interaction creates effects damage in the target. Psychotronic weapons brain manipulation from a distance. In order to understand these weapons and their effects, it is necessary first to develop a common framework for their analysis. How to make a directed energy weapon detection system for. The system effects of high power electromagnetic environments are well recognized by world scientific and military communities. Directed energy weapons for the indian armed forces 97 nature of warfare itself is undergoing transformation, it is necessary to make a comprehensive reassessment of the contours of the operational scenario that the iaf will have to contend with and reconfigure its inventory accordingly. That is, how they propagate to and interact with targets. The book covers laser systems, analyzing the interaction between highpower laser beams and matter, and examines penetration of high power beams such as microwave and scalar wave. Electromagnetic radiation typically lasers or masers. Directed energy weapons for the indian armed forces. United nations the united nations also agreed with this report and stated the united states is the main country of the world to use directed energy weapons and electromagnetic weapons.
Directedenergy or beam weapons comprise chemical lasers, excimer and free electron lasers, nuclear bombpowered xray lasers, neutral and charged particle beams, kinetic energy weapons, and microwave weapons. This book deals with the effects of directed energy weapons, treating such. Because directedenergy weapons are so new, there are few legal constraints on their development or use. The energy coupled to the ground from a nearsurface nuclear burst is plotted in figure 4. We are addressing critical needs such as accuracy, mobility, size, weight and power swap, cooling, and. Since the 1960s, dod has sought directedenergy weapons such as highenergy lasers or highpower microwaves. The nonlethal weapon may include a solidstate source to generate a highpower millimeterwave initial wavefront, a main reflector, and a subreflector to reflect the initial wavefront to the main reflector. Bis and ddtc revise controls on export of toxicological. Since the 1960s, dod has sought directed energy weapons such as high energy lasers or highpower microwaves. This book delves deeply into the realworld technologies behind the directed energy weapons that many believe exist only within the confines of science fiction. Effects of directed energy w the millennium report. Dews, specifically high energy lasers hels and highpower radiofrequency hprf, generally referred to as high power microwave, or hpm weapons, emit very.
The only unclassified source of detailed information on high energy laser. The article presents information on the current situation in the development and application of electromagnetic weapons and indicates possible trends of their future employment. The viability of directedenergy weapons the heritage. While there are laws regulating guns, there are no laws regulating dew. From emp electromagnetic pulses to hpm high powered microwaves, several weaponized forms of radio frequency are being developed. Effects of a nuclear explosion sequence of events, part i fireball for 1 mt explosion. Department of the army, united states army intelligence and security command freedom of information act foia initially classified secret but then declassified, that they use microwave weapons on targeted individuals their words in both microwave heating and microwave hearing, that can incapacitate the target or cause harm. A directed energy weapon is a system using directedenergy primarily as a direct means to damage or destroy enemy equipment, facilities, and personnel. Laser weapon system laws, the first ever department of defense dod. Below is microwave hearing microwave heating is on directed. Over the longer run, directedenergy weapons may enable entirely new concepts of operation, such as nonlethal warfare. Directed energy weapons project a focused beam of electromagnetic waves at a high frequency.
The functional relationships for these results are based on a set of algorithms for energy coupling endorsed by the defense threat reduction agency that account for the effects. This page will contain extensive information on the history, current use, and future of directed energy weapons. Propagation and target interaction are the key elements in an analysis of a weapons utility to accomplish a given mission. Pdf directed energy weapons dew have long captured military attention and budgetsand are now on the cusp of technological. This chapter focuses on new class of weapons known as directed energy weapons dews along with the exception of particle beam weapon pbw and laserinduced plasma channel lipc weapons that.
A directed energy weapon dew is a type of weapon that emits energy in an aimed direction without the means of a projectile. The present invention relates to directed energy weapons and, in particular, it concerns directed energy weapons based on fiber lasers for use against a target, the weapon comprising. Effects of directed energy weapons national defense. Cews have been deployed for relatively long or repeated exposures during law. Wood had only stated that some kind of directed energy weaponhad been used to destroy most of the wtc complex she had not yet made the connection, through a study of the evidence, to either the hutchison effect nor had she considered the role of field effects. Directed energy weapons dews versus kinetic energy weapons kews at the most fundamental level, directed energy weapons dews share the concept of delivering a large amount of stored energy from the weapon to the target to produce structural and incendiary damage effects. Introduction to directed energy weapon request pdf. This is my first instructable and i am victim of a malicious destruction of personality and property as well as an assault with intent to maim, murder and unreasonably serial kill experience forensically clean. Army included directed energy systems and radio frequency weapons 35 those weapons, as was suggested in the stoa report as well, are being associated with the effects on human nervous system. This book deals with the effects of directed energy weapons, treating such diverse types of weaponry as lasers, particle beams, microwaves, and even bullets.
What is the trajectory for the directed energy weapons dew market. Directed energy weapons dew market report 20172027. It transfers energy to a target for a desired effect. On july 28, 2016, the department of commerces bureau of industry and security bis and the department of states directorate of defense trade controls ddtc issued final rules implementing revisions to u. In addition to describing these devices, this background paper assesses he prospects for fashioning from such weapons. Modelling the effect of transient high energy weapon subsystems on highperformance. Senior fellow, international assessment and strategy center. The main reflector may direct the reflected wavefront in a boresighted direction toward a target. Asne a vision of directed energy weapons in the future. Review of directed energy technology for countering.
The purpose of this technical note is to describe, in detail, some aspects of an anesthetized swine model used in our laboratory. Since 1999 those weapons have been upgraded and should be banned in the world. Yet the dew are just as effective as a bullet in nullifying the targeted individual. Directed energy has the potential to yield costeffective weapons that can deliver precise, scalable effects and at long ranges with a large magazine capacity.
Home made active denial system directed energy weapon. This book is on the effects of directed energy weapons. This report is unclassified and is releasable to the public. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Directed energy weapons physics of high energy lasers. On the contrary, directed energy weapons such as high energy lasers are very real, and this book provides a crash course in all the.
The advent of hpm and ultrawide band directed energy weapons make the 711 hpwrhdrs products and services ever more essential to national security. However, directed energy weapons also have drawbacks. There is disclosed a solid state nonlethal directed energy weapon. Bioeffects research of directed energy exposures brdee.
Directed energy weapons are properly viewed as one facet of a broader revolution in military affairs currently. The dsb task force on directed energy weapons completed its information gathering in june 2007. Weapons designed to cause undue suffering are banned under the geneva convention, and human rights groups argue that directedenergy weapons raise a host of new legal and moral concerns that do. It is a thesis of this book that all weapons may be understood as devices which deposit energy in targets, and. If you are involved in dew then you must read this brand new report. Performing organization names and addresses national defense university,center for technology and national security. A new vision for 2025 and check out all of the directed energy weapon articles on climateviewer news.