Directed Energy Weapons
A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy, including laser, microwaves, and particle beams. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices.In the United States, the Pentagon, DARPA, the Air Force Research Laboratory, United States Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center, and the Naval Research Laboratory are researching directed-energy weapons and railguns to counter ballistic missiles, hypersonic cruise missiles, and hypersonic glide vehicles. These systems of missile defense are expected to come online no sooner than the mid to late-2020s.Russia, China, India, and the …
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CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 April 2024 English
may involve the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) testing and integrating new technologies like directed-energy weapons, railguns and artificial intelligence to successfully respond to this new challenge. TOP …
and integrating new technologies like directed-energy weapons, railguns and artificial intelligence to … Lagrone, Sam. 2024. “New SWOBOSS Wants More Directed Energy Weapons on Warships as Low-Cost Threats Expand … org/2024/01/09/new-swoboss-wants-more-directed-energy- weapons-on-warships-as-low-cost-threats-expand …
PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 5 December 2022 English
Hydro-Québec has lost its moorings as a result of the pay-the-rich schemes of subsequent governments since the early nineties when neo-liberalism set the direction of the economy to the detriment …
ground vehicles, unmanned systems and directed energy weapons -- are designed around the high energy …
Wilson Center Canada · 6 September 2022 English
In this respect, we are indebted for the generous willingness to engage over peri- ods, short and long—before and during the project—with us in this work as well as the …
invest in counter-technologies such as directed energy weapons, which upon deployment could significantly …
Wilson Center Canada · 14 April 2022
The objective of the Wassenaar Arrangement is to “prevent destabilizing accumulations of arms by establishing effective and reliable national export controls and to improve transparency in the export of conventional …
weapons”. SMH (with civilian uses, such oping directed energy weapons, missiles, as the performance evaluation …
Wilson Center Canada · 18 May 2021 English
intervention in the Mexican Revolution, including the potential complicity of then Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson in the coup that overthrew the Mexican government in 1913 and the U. [...] Its …
invest in counter-technologies such as directed energy weapons, which upon deployment could significantly …
School of Public Policy, University of Calgary · 1 March 2021
The two leaders discussed the president’s conviction that the two nations had to co-operate to ensure the defence of the continent. [...] Under the NAADM, key elements were the replacement …
of several advanced technologies, such as directed-energy weapons (lasers) after many years of development …
desLibris · 9 November 2020 English
To prepare for it, policy-makers in Canada and elsewhere need to understand the interaction between current political, strategic, and military trends and the consequences of the pandemic. [...] In short, …
narrow capabili- ties, like hypersonic and directed energy weapons, but also such fundamental systems as … battlefield. An example of this might be directed energy weapons, which are only now en- tering limited …
MLI: Macdonald-Laurier Institute · 9 November 2020 English
In the case of the INF Treaty, the United States withdrew from the treaty, citing bpth Russian violation of its terms as well as a desire to develop systems to …
narrow capabili- ties, like hypersonic and directed energy weapons, but also such fundamental systems as artificial … battlefield. An example of this might be directed energy weapons, which are only now en- tering limited …
MLI: Macdonald-Laurier Institute · 9 November 2020 English
In the case of the INF Treaty, the United States withdrew from the treaty, citing bpth Russian violation of its terms as well as a desire to develop systems to …
narrow capabili- ties, like hypersonic and directed energy weapons, but also such fundamental systems as artificial … battlefield. An example of this might be directed energy weapons, which are only now en- tering limited …
desLibris · 13 February 2020 English
'This report builds on a five-year analysis of overdose incidents in federal custody (McKendy, Biro & Keown, 2019), providing an overview of fatal and non-fatal overdose incidents that occurred in …
