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. Directed energy has the potential to yield costeffective weapons that can deliver precise, scalable effects and at long ranges with a large magazine capacity. Effects of directed energy weapons nielsen, philip e on. 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.
This page will contain extensive information on the history, current use, and future of directed energy weapons. This book deals with the effects of directed energy weapons, treating such. Directed energy weapons dew page targeted individuals. Over the longer run, directedenergy weapons may enable entirely new concepts of operation, such as nonlethal warfare. Directed energy weapons and modern warfare american. Directedenergy weapons, the oncoming revolution in weaponry. The only unclassified source of detailed information on high energy laser. The system effects of high power electromagnetic environments are well recognized by world scientific and military communities. The energy coupled to the ground from a nearsurface nuclear burst is plotted in figure 4. Radiofrequency weapons facilitate a wide range of information operations against both area and point targets. Implications of a changing directedenergy weapons posture. However, directed energy weapons also have drawbacks.
Review of directed energy technology for countering. This book deals with the effects of directed energy weapons, treating such diverse types of weaponry as lasers, particle beams, microwaves, and even bullets. How to make a directed energy weapon detection system for. As directed energy technology transitions from the laboratory to the field, there will be an increasing number of personnel who will be active in the acquisitions process yet have little knowledge about directed energy or related policy issues. Effects of directed energy weapons national defense. 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. Chinas progress with directed energy weapons by richard d. We are addressing critical needs such as accuracy, mobility, size, weight and power swap, cooling, and. Pdf directed energy weapons dew have long captured military attention and budgetsand are now on the cusp of technological. This is a technical exposition, written at the undergraduate physics and engineering level that could serve either as. Effects of directed energy w the millennium report. Introduction to directed energy weapon request pdf. 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. Yet the dew are just as effective as a bullet in nullifying the targeted individual.
A directed energy weapon is a system using directedenergy primarily as a direct means to damage or destroy enemy equipment, facilities, and personnel. The article presents information on the current situation in the development and application of electromagnetic weapons and indicates possible trends of their future employment. Cews have been deployed for relatively long or repeated exposures during law. A directed energy weapon dew is a type of weapon that emits energy in an aimed direction without the means of a projectile.
From emp electromagnetic pulses to hpm high powered microwaves, several weaponized forms of radio frequency are being developed. 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. While there are laws regulating guns, there are no laws regulating dew. What is the trajectory for the directed energy weapons dew market. It transfers energy to a target for a desired effect. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices. Home made active denial system directed energy weapon. Directed energy weapons dew market report 20172027.
Bioeffects research of directed energy exposures brdee. Bis and ddtc revise controls on export of toxicological. 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. The advent of hpm and ultrawide band directed energy weapons make the 711 hpwrhdrs products and services ever more essential to national security. Dews, specifically high energy lasers hels and highpower radiofrequency hprf, generally referred to as high power microwave, or hpm weapons, emit very. 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. 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. 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. The department needs an authoritative single source data base for directed energy effects similar to the munitions effects manual for kinetic weapons. Since the 1960s, dod has sought directed energy weapons such as high energy lasers or highpower microwaves. 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.
That is, how they propagate to and interact with targets. 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. This book delves deeply into the realworld technologies behind the directed energy weapons that many believe exist only within the confines of science fiction. Since the 1960s, dod has sought directedenergy weapons such as highenergy lasers or highpower microwaves. Download fulltext pdf abstrac t a dire cted energy weapon dew is a weapon system, capable of discrete target selection, which produces a beam or field of e lectromagnetic energy, acoustic. A new vision for 2025 and check out all of the directed energy weapon articles on climateviewer news. Directed energy weapons are properly viewed as one facet of a broader revolution in military affairs currently. 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.
Since 1999 those weapons have been upgraded and should be banned in the world. 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. Directed energy weapons for the indian armed forces. Electromagnetic radiation typically lasers or masers. If you are involved in dew then you must read this brand new report.
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. The main reflector may direct the reflected wavefront in a boresighted direction toward a target. This is a technical exposition, written at the undergraduate physics and engineering level that could serve either. These directed energy weapons dew can damage tissue, induce mood swings, loss of memory, and cause a wide variety of physical symptoms. Directed energy weapons project a focused beam of electromagnetic waves at a high frequency. The purpose of this technical note is to describe, in detail, some aspects of an anesthetized swine model used in our laboratory. Laser weapon system laws, the first ever department of defense dod. It is a thesis of this book that all weapons may be understood as devices which deposit energy in targets, and.
A directedenergy weapon dew is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy, including laser, microwaves and particle beams. Psychotronic weapons brain manipulation from a distance. Below is microwave hearing microwave heating is on directed. 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. Download pdf print this page share this page share on. Effects of a nuclear explosion sequence of events, part i fireball for 1 mt explosion. 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. Directed energy weapons directed energy weapons take many forms. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. 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 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. Senior fellow, international assessment and strategy center. Because directedenergy weapons are so new, there are few legal constraints on their development or use. This report is unclassified and is releasable to the public.
This book is on the effects of directed energy weapons. In addition to describing these devices, this background paper assesses he prospects for fashioning from such weapons. 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. Asne a vision of directed energy weapons in the future.
In order to understand these weapons and their effects, it is necessary first to develop a common framework for their analysis. Little is known about the health effects of directed energy weapons because of limited publicly available data about their military testing. High power electromagnetic weapons, also referred to as high power radiofrequency hprf weapons, are a type of directed energy weapons. Performing organization names and addresses national defense university,center for technology and national security. There is disclosed a solid state nonlethal directed energy weapon. It is worth reiterating that, at the time of the madison conference, dr. This book introduces modern directedenergy beam weaponry and emerging technical concepts based on unclassified and declassified information.
The viability of directedenergy weapons the heritage. The dsb task force on directed energy weapons completed its information gathering in june 2007. Propagation and target interaction are the key elements in an analysis of a weapons utility to accomplish a given mission. Please also read our previous article on this subject. Modelling the effect of transient high energy weapon subsystems on highperformance. Directed energy weapons physics of high energy lasers.