Posted on 02/19/2024 9:55:33 AM PST by Chode
While technology has continued to evolve, most weapon systems modern militaries use operate on old principles. A artillery piece is a world removed from a Napoleonic cannon, but the idea of detonating a charge behind a projectile in a tube in order to propel it in the direction of something you don't like - that remains the same.
For decades, Governments have also been investing in trying to develop systems that operate in very different ways - including directed energy weapons like lasers and High Powered Microwave weapons (HPM). And for decades - very little emerged in terms of deployable, destructive systems.
But on a battlefield increasingly dominated by cheap and precise threats such as loitering munitions, FPV drones or naval kamikaze drones, there is more pressure than ever for forces to leverage recent technological developments to turn concepts into functional, deployable tools for their armed forces.
In this episode, we look at the concepts behind Directed Energy Weapons, ask what advantages and disadvantages they might have compared to more conventional equivalents, and what how militaries might use them going forward.
like han solo, I’ll trust my blaster before anything else.
The Army’s Stryker-mounted laser, built to zap enemy drones out of the sky, just took a major step towards combat....
Article published March 15, 2018 in Task and Purpose.
There are many (MANY!) who believe WEF and globohomos use DEW in their Great Reset goals.
The Paradise Fire and the Lahaina fire among other catastrophes were man made disasters.
Make of that what you will.
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They did a pretty good job on Laheine in Hawaii.
yup...
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