"...so apologies if someone else answers this further down."
Not that I have noticed. I think there's only two of us. I have been reading what I can find on plasma and microwave weapons for quite some time. For anyone not a scientist, some of this stuff is pretty technical...and gets mixed up with conspiracy/ufo sites as well.
The SCRAM jet prototype (from what I recall) began its life at the old testing site named Woomera.
Like you, I have no doubt electromagnetic/plasma/microwave weapons technology exits. From reading about Tesla, HAARP etc my head is full of it. But where's the wheat and how much is chaff I have no idea.
As for plasma sightings, well, no tinfoil needed; I saw several myself some months ago in Queensland. Stunning light displays, brilliant flashes across the night sky off and on as if someone was flicking a switch. Concentrated brilliant light...NOT lightening. (Same phenomenon as shown on: http://www.earthfiles.com/Images/news/I/ItalyMontegranaroLight2.jpg
Collaboration with NZ isn't such a stretch IMO. Anti-war the present gov may be, but anti-defence? I doubt it. Poor NZ has to go along, they know they can't defend
themselves. (Applies to Oz as well.)
Have you read 'Scalar Wars The Brave New World of Scalar Electromagnetics' ?
http://www.prahlad.org/pub/bearden/scalar_wars.htm
Interesting.
It is late here, so I skimmed a bit and bookmarked for tomorrow.
I'll show it to my husband. He was interested in the Tesla experiments years ago.
I don't have the math for all this, either, so I appreciate a lay presentation.