| ID | 130111 |
| Title Proper | Today's directed energy weapons |
| Other Title Information | meeting the realities of power, heat, size and inclination |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Antal, John |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In the last decades of the 20th Century, the proponents of Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) have promised that lasers and high-power energy weapons would revolutionise warfare. In many ways, this promise has come true in a different form as thousands of smaller lasers fill the arsenals of modern military forces. These lasers, however, are mostly range finding systems designed to improve the capability and effectiveness of kinetic weapons or dazzlers designed to incapacitate enemy optics. Recent developments, however, suggest that the promise of DEW is moving closer to reality. |
| `In' analytical Note | Military Technology Vol.37, No.10: October 2013: p.26-29 |
| Journal Source | Military Technology Vol.37, No.10: October 2013: p.26-29 |
| Key Words | Directed Energy Weapons - DEW ; Energy Weapons ; High-Power Energy Weapons - HPEW ; Revolutionise Warfare ; Warfare ; Active Denial Systems - ADS ; High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator - HELMD ; Airborne System ; Modern Military Forces ; Laser Arsenal ; Modern Arsenals ; Area Defence Anti Munitions - ADAM |