[4] Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed., s.v. [45], AESA radars mounted on fighter aircraft have been slated as directed energy weapons against missiles, however, a senior US Air Force officer noted: "they aren't particularly suited to create weapons effects on missiles because of limited antenna size, power and field of view". They seemed to have arisen from the testing of the television transmitter in Feldberg, Germany. The full system will be fitted to the aircraft by 2007 and test-fired against ground targets. Light is, for practical purposes, unaffected by, Lasers travel at light-speed and have long range, making them suitable for use in. , 2018, available at < https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/02/28/soldiers-in-europe-are-now-using-lasers-to-shoot-down-drones/>. By Henry Trey Obering, III
HPM weapon technology is based on the same technology as radar devices, which already have a long history of research and development. The U.S. military has developed an Active Denial System that aims microwaves at people to cause pain without injury. One of the most promising laser devices is the free-electron laser. They are real and are maturing rapidly. Building a Stryker with a 50kW laser is a follow-on to the 5kW laser the Army tested on the vehicle just a year ago in Germany at the Joint Warfighting Assessment and related efforts. [10], Once tracked by the TILL, the BILL measures the atmospheric distortion between the COIL and the missile. There is no injury to the target individual. They can be very effective in causing pressurized vessels to explode such as missile propellant and oxidizer tanks. Certain types of particle beams have the advantage of being self-focusing in the atmosphere. [74] Some of the victims of this method suffered from suspicious cases of cancer and have claimed that they had also been targeted with directed X-rays. Adversaries are not waiting to develop directed energy weapons. [25]"Electromagnetic Weapons: Come Fry with Me," The Economist, January 30, 2003, at http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030130-ebomb01.htm (March 15, 2006). However, risks, challenges and limitations remain. [15]Colonel Craig Hughes, Office of Force Transformation, U.S. Department of Defense, "Re-directed Energy: the Tactical Relay Mirror System," presentation at The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C., February 13, 2006. For example, when deployed, the anti-ballistic missile Airborne Laser will cost approximately $1,000 per shot,[5] while each Patriot missile currently costs $2 million to $3 million. -Alane Kochems is a Policy Analyst for National Security in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation. They are well-suited to defending against threats such as missiles and artillery shells, which DEWs can shoot down in mid-flight. This makes targeting and tracking easier as well. The air-launched uses scramjets or rockets to power it throughout flight. 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It stresses the heart, causes insomnia, completely prevents deep sleep, and causes severe muscle aches. Andrew Gudgel. [49], Both Russia and Ukraine are reported to use these devices during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. It turned out that during its three-year deployment, from 201114, it was used nearly around the clock in its ISR mode. As with all new weapons, the DOD General Counsel reviews each DEW for compliance with international and U.S. laws before the Pentagon is allowed to field it. [3]Richard M. Roberds, Ph.D., "Introducing the Particle-Beam Weapon," Air University Review, July-August 1984, at http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1984/jul-aug/roberds.html (March 15, 2006). In the 1970s and '80s it became the primary method of repressing domestic 'hostile-negative'[73] forces. EM launchers use electrical energy to throw a mass at a target, thus making them distinct from directed energy. However, because beam strength degrades rapidly as the particles react with the atoms in the atmosphere, it requires an enormous power plant to generate a weapons-grade beam. Future research will seek to increase the power and decrease the size of DEW systems. The Active Denial System (ADS) is a non-lethal directed-energy weapon developed by the U.S. military, designed for area denial, perimeter security and crowd control. The device combined two slightly different frequencies which when heard would be heard as the sum of the two frequencies (ultrasonic) and the difference between the two frequencies (infrasonic) e.g. Loading. While DEWs are not a panacea, the armed services should fully support research and development of these useful technologies. In August 2004, the THEL system shot down multiple mortar rounds during testing. This In Focus discusses a selection of But with laser weapons, instead of thinking in terms of a laser pointer, the mental image should be more like a powerful, long-range blowtorch! DE warfare is military action involving the use of DE weapons, devices, and countermeasures to either cause direct damage or destruction of adversary equipment, facilities, and personnel, or to determine, exploit, reduce, or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) through damage, destruction, and disruption.1. Thermal blooming occurs in both charged and neutral particle beams, and occurs when particles bump into one another under the effects of thermal vibration, or bump into air molecules. [2]David E. Fisher, A Race on the Edge of Time: Radar-The Decisive Weapon of WWII (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988), pp. A prototype ADS system mounted on a Humvee went into testing in August 2005.[22]. European Parliament Among the directed-energy weapons the Nazis investigated were X-ray beam weapons developed under Heinz Schmellenmeier, Richard Gans and Fritz Houtermans. They are not "weapons of mass destruction," but they have the potential to . LRAD systems are used for long-range communications in a variety of applications[53] and as a means of non-lethal, non-projectile crowd control. [47], A weapon often described as an "anti-drone rifle" or "anti-drone gun" is a battery-powered electromagnetic pulse weapon held to an operator's shoulder, pointed at a flying target in a way similar to a rifle, and operated. [20], The Active Denial System (ADS) is a nonlethal anti-personnel DEW that uses millimeter-wavelength beams to create a painful sensation in an individual without causing actual injury. When these waves interact with a person, they pass through the skin and transfer energy to the water that lies just under the surface. Microwave weapons can be aimed at computers, electronical devices and persons. [54] They range in size from small, portable handheld units which can be strapped to a person's chest, to larger models which require a mount. [83] A few years later, the cruise liner Spirit of Adventure also defended itself from Somali pirates by using its LRAD to force them to retreat. This information is then transferred to an optical tracking system, which refines the target tracking and positions the beam director. Depending on the type of laser, this means that the weapon can have an almost "endless magazine" of laser bursts. In 1995, the Chinese military marketed the ZM-87 laser interference device, a tripod-mounted battlefield laser dazzler designed to blind enemy soldiers and optics temporarily. When directed-energy weapons are mentioned, most people think of "death rays" or Hollywood's latest science fiction movie. The United States will soon be reaching the point where it can generate a megawatt of power in a size, weight, and volume capable of being put on a high-altitude aircraft or space-based platform. In the 1951 science fiction film, The Day the Earth Stood Still, powerful ray guns are shown vaporizing rifles and even tanks. A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. 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Directed energy weapons, such as lasers and microwaves, had enjoyed an exotic aura. Alane Kochems Directed-Energy Weapons Programs A number of countries are investing in directed-energy weapons programs. During the Iraq War, electromagnetic weapons, including high power microwaves, were used by the U.S. military to disrupt and destroy Iraqi electronic systems and may have been used for crowd control. [26] Most DEWs are not yet far enough along in development and thus have not received this final stamp of approval. In fact, the megawatt-class Airborne Laser developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s required an entire 747 aircraft to hold the equipment. DE warfare is military action involving the use of DE weapons, devices, and countermeasures to either cause direct damage or destruction of adversary equipment, facilities, and personnel, or to determine, exploit, reduce, or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) through damage, destruction, and disruption, After decades of research and investment, we believe these advanced directed-energy applications will soon be ready for the battlefield to help protect people, assets and infrastructure. Thomas Bussing, Raytheon Advanced Missile Systems vice president, said in a news release accompanying the announcement. HPM weapons lethality is typically described in terms of their ability to deny, degrade, damage or destroy a targets capabilities. In a much more dramatic application, the recently released Missile Defense Review (MDR), the first update to U.S. Missile Defense Strategy in nearly a decade, delivers a visionary plan to protect the United States from ever-intensifying threats around the world. When a laser beam strikes a target, the energy from the photons in the beam heats the target to the point of combustion or melting. Vigilant Eagle is a ground-based airport defense system that directs high-frequency microwaves towards any projectile that is fired at an aircraft. It has been claimed that the USSR made use of the lasers at the Terra-3 site to target the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1984. [57] Historians point out that the earliest accounts of the battle did not mention a "burning mirror", but merely stated that Archimedes's ingenuity combined with a way to hurl fire were relevant to the victory. Does the mere use of a weapon that can cause permanent blindness constitute inflicting undue suffering? 3 How a Fiber Laser Works, SPI Lasers International website, available at . Laser light is created when the electrons in atoms in special glasses, crystals, or gases absorb energy from an electrical current or another laser and become excited. The excited electrons move from a lower-energy orbit to a higher-energy orbit around the atoms nucleus. [26]David Ruppe, "Directed-Energy Weapons: Possible U.S. Use Against Iraq Could Threaten International Regimes," Global Security Newswire, at http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2002/020816-dew.htm (March 15, 2006). General DOD policy is that directed-energy weapons can be used legitimately on the battlefield. But by far, the most ambitious program underway in DOD is being led by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The DOD Office of Force Transformation (OFT), in conjunction with the Air Force Research Laboratory, is developing the Tactical Relay Mirror System (TRMS), which would use a mirror system mounted on an aerostat or UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) to redirect the beams from laser weapons such as the ATL and ABL. [8]"Mobile/Tactical High Energy Laser (M-THEL) Technology Demonstration Program.". Authors: (Invented by Max Steenbeck at Siemens-Schuckert in the 1930s, these were later called Betatrons by the Americans.) However, British scientists calculated that the electronic systems of the time could not generate the power necessary for a "death ray," and research was redirected into early radar detection systems. Electrolasers make use of laser bloom, a normally undesired effect. The U.S. Army has also been moving out aggressively in developing and deploying directed energy weapons as part of its Air and Missile Defense modernization priority. They can destroy, degrade or blind many other systems that contain sensors and electronics. Directed energy system is further defined by the STOA document: "Directed energy weapon system designed to match radio frequency source to interfere with human brain activity at synapse level" (at the bottom of the page, first reference, Appendix 6-67). Semiconductors and modern electronics are particularly susceptible to HPM attacks. For example, the MDR proposes that the Missile Defense Agency study the potential to develop and field space-based lasers to intercept ballistic missiles.15. Similar to the Armys RCCTO and the Navys Accelerated Acquisition (AA) Process, the Air Force is leveraging both Air Force Research Laboratorys DE Directorate and Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office to expedite delivery of capabilities to address key capability gaps identified in the DE flight plan: Forward Base Defense, Precision Strike, and Aircraft Self-Protect. Millimeter waveband energy can penetrate human skin to a very shallow depth, heating the tissue below. The article states: 'The squawk box is highly directional which gives it its appeal. While directed-energy research is advancing, inadequate funding is hindering more rapid development and deployment of these technologies. There are two types of hypersonic weapons, boost glide and air-launched high-speed cruise missiles. [86], Also, "directed-energy weapons that target the central nervous system and cause neurophysiological disorders may violate the Certain Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980. Directed energy weapons are among the high-tech arms of the century. In the late Middle Ages, a revolution in the weaponry occurred when chemical-powered (gunpowder) weapons began to replace swords and bows. Imagine how much the geopolitical calculus would change on the peninsula if a layered, integrated system of high energy lasers and high-power microwave weapons was deployed to defend against these threats. [24] Would the permanent blinding of a soldier struck by a ZM-87's laser beam be considered intentional or accidental? These devices have also been demonstrated to stall or damage car, truck, or boat motors. [9], The ABL is a system that uses a megawatt chemical laser mounted on a modified Boeing 747 to shoot down theater ballistic missiles. In most cases, the target system must be shut off and restarted, and may require minor repairs before it can operate normally again. [19]GlobalSecurity.org, "High Power Microwave (HPM)/E-Bomb," at http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/hpm.htm (March 15, 2006). It is relatively close to deployment. A DE weapon is a system using DE primarily as a direct means to This destroys the device but produces electrical pulses in the terawatt range-the equivalent of 10 to 1,000 lightning strikes. Energy that would otherwise be focused on the target spreads out and the beam becomes less effective: Plasma weapons fire a beam, bolt, or stream of plasma, which is an excited state of matter consisting of atomic electrons & nuclei and free electrons if ionized, or other particles if pinched. The Rheotron was captured by the Americans in Burggrub on April 14, 1945. Various morally flexible, highly educated professionals provide their services to the states most probably lured by utilitarian gains and acting not only against the law, but against any moral value, their Ippocratical oath and other professional ethics. Lasers are becoming smaller and more powerful. For example, a recent test of a solid-state laser by Northrop Grumman produced a continuous 27-kilowatt beam that lasted just under six minutes. Depending on the type of laser, this means that the weapon can have an almost "endless magazine" of laser bursts. [82], LRADs are often fitted on commercial and military ships. Existing directed-energy weapons are in the range of tens of thousands of kilowatts: the American ADS fires a 100kW millimetre-wave beam which can cause burns to the skin; the Turkish ALKA dual EM/laser system for use against combat vehicles reportedly has a power of 50kW; the LAWS laser weapon generated 33kW during testing; and Dynetics and . Colonel Craig Hughes, Office of Force Transformation, U.S. Department of Defense, "Re-directed Energy: the Tactical Relay Mirror System," presentation at The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C., February 13, 2006. This type of weapon shows great potential as a riot-control device or area-denial system. These weapons were considered for both land and space-based systems. The EPFCG uses chemical explosives to compress an electrically charged coil. Other members of a crowd are unaffected, except by panic when they see people fainting, being sick, or running from the scene with their hands over their ears. The distinction between them is the wavelength/frequency of the energy. 3. Russia has reportedly been using blinding laser weapons during its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. 5-1111, Special Report, Phillips Laboratory, March 1996, 76. , 2019, available at . In addition, the Air Force has partnered with the Navy in the development of a high-power RF weapon called High-power Joint Electromagnetic Non-Kinetic Strike (HiJENKS) capable of attacking electronics, communications and computer networks. Laser dazzlers-devices that use laser light to temporarily blind sensors, optics, and personnel- are already available for law enforcement and military use. 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