Therefore, HELs and HPMs could also play a role in the midcourse/terminal phase of both types of hypersonic missile flight. European Parliament For fictional uses, see, "DEW" redirects here. Directed energy weapons are among the high-tech arms of the century. While some uses may be illegal (e.g., targeting an unarmed civilian who in no way poses a threat), other uses are just as assuredly legal and legitimate. [82], LRADs are often fitted on commercial and military ships. These high-speed missiles fly at Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound) and greater. For example, when deployed, the anti-ballistic missile Airborne Laser will cost approximately $1,000 per shot,[5] while each Patriot missile currently costs $2 million to $3 million. 13 Todd South, Soldiers in Europe are now Using Lasers to Shoot Down Drones, ArmyTimes.com, February 8, 2018, available at < https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/02/28/soldiers-in-europe-are-now-using-lasers-to-shoot-down-drones/>. They built an electron accelerator called Rheotron to generate hard X-ray synchrotron beams for the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM). A laser weapon could target not only a single vehicle in a convoy, but also a specific spot on that vehicle (e.g., the engine) and disable it without injuring the passengers. The soldier returned a short time later to say that the engine would now work and the tourists drove off. In this manner someone could be debilitated even though they were no longer imprisoned. However, a stronger counterargument is that directed-energy weapons, especially lasers, are more humane than conventional weapons because they can strike pinpoint targets, thus causing less collateral damage. [86], Also, "directed-energy weapons that target the central nervous system and cause neurophysiological disorders may violate the Certain Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980. HPM weapon technology is based on the same technology as radar devices, which already have a long history of research and development. PRISM Vol. However, the wide variety of missions, platforms, and implementation environments necessitates continued service-differentiated development activities. 1, 2018, available at < https://www.defensenews.com/land/2018/03/21/us-army-successfully-demos-laser-weapon-on-stryker-in-europe/>. HPM lethality can be affected by atmospheric conditions as well, but to a much lesser degree than high-energy laser (HEL) weapons. Zersetzung). Richert Seifert & Co from Hamburg delivered parts. 8, No. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices. Directed energy weapons are no longer just science fiction. Additional information on How Lasers Work, is available on the Lawrence Livermore National Lab website, . The virus that causes COVID-19 most likely leaked from a Chinese laboratory, according to a classified report based on new intelligence and recently sent to the White House and key members . Examples of NLFoS weapons include: a 60kW laser called HELIOS (High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance) expected to be deployed by 2021 that will be capable of burning through small boats and shooting down drones; the SSLTM (Solid State LaserTechnology Maturation system), which will eventually be a 150kW laser weapon on the LPD27 amphibious ship; and the ODIN (Optical Dazzling Interdictor, Navy) that will also go on a destroyer.11. The air-launched uses scramjets or rockets to power it throughout flight. As with all new weapons, the DOD General Counsel reviews each DEW for compliance with international and U.S. laws before the Pentagon is allowed to field it. When the LaWS was being integrated onto the ship, the designers and developers envisioned that it would be used several hours a day. True support for a program is often best measured by the resources that an organization is willing to devote to it. The THEL system uses radar to detect and track incoming targets. The power levels are driven by prime power generation limitations, and ERPs depend on the antenna design and aperture (i.e., size).6, Almost everyone has probably experienced the lethality of a microwave device when they inadvertently put a metal object into a kitchen microwave oven and watched the sparks fly. This same energy can be applied at higher powers for weapon effects. [18]Carlo Kopp, "The Electromagnetic Bomb-A Weapon of Electrical Mass Destruction," at http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1996/apjemp.htm (March 15, 2006). The system consists of a missile-detecting and tracking subsystem (MDT), a command and control system, and a scanning array. Stupor is reported to have been used by Russian forces during the Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war. There is no injury to the target individual. As another example, high energy lasers could be used to protect forward-deployed troops and bases from attacks by swarms of unmanned aircraft carrying explosive devices. The U.S. military has developed an Active Denial System that aims microwaves at people to cause pain without injury. In addition to being able to scale effects on a target, directed energy weapons have inherent attributes that are attractive to the warfighter. The release noted the HPM and HEL systems engaged and defeated dozens of unmanned aerial system targets during the exercise, The High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator, or HEL MD, is the result of U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command research. Since the invention of gunpowder, a weapon's effectiveness has no longer depended on the wielder's strength, but on the chemical energy of the propellant or explosive. [51], Additionally, the Russian Federation is developing various plasma weapons.[52]. Directed energy weapon could be responsible for auditory hallucinations, brain injuries. low-cost per shot compared to traditional munitions. speed of light engagement which makes responsiveness and tracking much faster than kinetic weapons; deep shot magazines which are only limited by the electrical power supplied to and re-generated by the system; stealth-like performance (quiet and invisible beams) that are hard to detect or intercept; precision targeting for both lethal and non-lethal applications; and. It suggested that lasers, perhaps space-based X-ray lasers, could destroy ICBMs in flight. 3 How a Fiber Laser Works, SPI Lasers International website, available at . Increasing laser power and improving the beam quality can also help to mitigate atmospheric effects in many cases. According to DOD's Joint Publication 3-13 Electronic Warfare, directed energy (DE) is described as an; umbrella term covering technologies that produce a beam of concentrated electromagnetic energy or atomic or subatomic particles. HPM weapons lethality is typically described in terms of their ability to deny, degrade, damage or destroy a targets capabilities. In an effort to avoid such condemnation the state security service, the Stasi, attempted alternative methods of repression which could paralyze people without keeping them in a physical prison. The system consists of several modules: an infrared detection system to detect the missile's launch; the Tracking Illumination Laser (TILL); the Beacon Illuminator Laser (BILL); and the Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL). The technology is maturing rapidly, threats are emerging which directed energy can almost uniquely address, and the warfighters are signaling their support. A DE weapon is a system using DE primarily as a direct means to Fiber lasers are lasers in which the active medium being used is an optical fiber that has been doped in rare elements, most often Erbium.3 Slab lasers represent one class of high-power solid-state lasers in which the laser crystal has the form of a slab.4 Hybrid lasers such as a diode pumped alkali laser use a combination of trace gas with semiconductor diode arrays for even higher power and efficiency.5. , 2019, available at . Discrete, mission-aligned efforts will maintain our pace of development in the race to get these technologies to the field. The SOR's world-class adaptive optics telescope is the second largest telescope in the Department of Defense. [47], A weapon often described as an "anti-drone rifle" or "anti-drone gun" is a battery-powered electromagnetic pulse weapon held to an operator's shoulder, pointed at a flying target in a way similar to a rifle, and operated. DE weapons include high-energy lasers, high-power radio frequency or microwave devices, and charged or neutral particle beam weapons.2 Microwaves and lasers are both part of the electromagnetic spectrum, which includes light energy and radio waves. Because the laser energy travels at the speed of light, lasers are particularly well-suited for use against moving targets such as rockets, missiles, and artillery projectiles. In addition, the Air Force has partnered with the Navy in the development of a high-power RF weapon called High-power Joint Electromagnetic Non-Kinetic Strike (HiJENKS) capable of attacking electronics, communications and computer networks. Because electrical noise from car engines would interfere with field strength measurements, sentries would stop all traffic in the vicinity for the twenty minutes or so needed for a test. So hypersonic kinetic interceptors would have to be capable of achieving speeds of Mach 15 and higher. The distinction between them is the wavelength/frequency of the energy. A high-voltage electrical charge is then fed into one of the laser beams, striking the target. The speed, ultraprecision, and nonlethal capabilities of directed-energy weapons are all good reasons why the United States should continue to research, develop, and, where appropriate, field these technologies. Weapons that go beyond non-lethal intentions and cause 'superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering' may also violate the Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1977."[87]. However, a variety of optical methods can be used to correct for blooming. What are the challenges and next steps? For example, when deployed, the anti-ballistic missile Airborne Laser will cost approximately $1,000 per shot. Compare that to a high energy laser which could kill multiple threat missiles with a single magazine charge for a tiny fraction of the cost. When a laser beam strikes a target, the energy from the photons in the beam heats the target to the point of combustion or melting. Modern battlefield weapons are the descendents of muskets and cannon. While the development costs of directed energy systems can be high, there are several factors in play which can reduce these costs or at least provide better return on the investment over the life cycle. The military has rhetorically embraced the wonders of DEWs, but it has not always opened its wallet to fund the technologies. The antenna gain of the weapon system is also very important, and when combined with the power of the RF source, yields the Effective Radiated Power (ERP) of the weapon. [83] A few years later, the cruise liner Spirit of Adventure also defended itself from Somali pirates by using its LRAD to force them to retreat. Electrolasers make use of laser bloom, a normally undesired effect. Some common bio-effects of non-lethal electromagnetic weapons include: Interference with breathing poses the most significant, potentially lethal results. General DOD policy is that directed-energy weapons can be used legitimately on the battlefield. Within that priority area, the Army is focused on the use of high energy lasers to provide Indirect Fire Protection Capability (IFPC) and ManeuverShort-Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD). For instance, the Active Denial System was not ready for deployment when the United States invaded Iraq, in part because the money was not there. Vigilant Eagle is a ground-based airport defense system that directs high-frequency microwaves towards any projectile that is fired at an aircraft. [3]Richard M. Roberds, Ph.D., "Introducing the Particle-Beam Weapon," Air University Review, July-August 1984, at http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1984/jul-aug/roberds.html (March 15, 2006). They are real and are maturing rapidly. It was capable of damaging or destroying fast attack boats, unmanned aerial vehicles and was used for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). For example, the MDR proposes that the Missile Defense Agency study the potential to develop and field space-based lasers to intercept ballistic missiles.15. [2]David E. Fisher, A Race on the Edge of Time: Radar-The Decisive Weapon of WWII (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988), pp. [61][62], Stories in the 1930s and World War Two gave rise to the idea of an "engine-stopping ray". A directed-energy weapon ( DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. ", "Iran starts producing laser weapons for air defense", "Iran achieves Laser Weapon System's deflection technology", "Iran is Producing Laser Air Defense System", "Turkey's laser weapon ARMOL passes acceptance tests", "Janes | Latest defence and security news", "Turkey's laser gun passes acceptance tests", "Is Turkey the first country to shoot down a drone with a laser? 5-1111, Special Report, Phillips Laboratory, March 1996, 76. If the microwave energy travels through the targets own antenna, dome, or other sensor opening, then this pathway is commonly referred to as the front door.7 On the other hand, if the microwave emissions travel through cracks, seams, trailing wires, metal conduits, or seals of the target, then this pathway is called the back door.8. The skin of the missile heats up, melts, and deforms, and the target breaks up in midair. The electrical shock is enough to stun personnel, detonate improvised explosive devices, or destroy electronic equipment. It can also destroy unshielded electronics. The skin of the missile heats up, melts, and deforms, and the target breaks up in midair. There are numerous pathways and entry points through which microwave energy can penetrate electronic systems. In fact, the megawatt-class Airborne Laser developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s required an entire 747 aircraft to hold the equipment. This page was last edited on 21 February 2023, at 22:00. We proved that the technology could be effective, but its size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements made the laser weapons impracticable to field. [13], A related project is the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) system, which uses a less powerful version of the ABL's COIL laser, instead of missiles, to attack ground targets. Panel discussions on the role of high-power lasers in SDI took place at various laser conferences, during the 1980s, with the participation of noted physicists including Edward Teller.[76][77]. The system consists of several modules: an infrared detection system to detect the missile's launch; the Tracking Illumination Laser (TILL); the Beacon Illuminator Laser (BILL); and the Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL). Directed energy system is further defined by the STOA document: "Directed energy weapon system designed to match radio frequency source to interfere with human brain activity at synapse level" (at the bottom of the page, first reference, Appendix 6-67). The first step in this endeavor is underway with funding for laser scaling and beam quality improvements for both combined fiber lasers as well as hybrid lasers such as the diode pumped alkali laser or DPALS. At higher energy levels, the microwaves can permanently "burn out" equipment, much as a close lightning strike could. They have strong physical and psychological effects and can be used for military and terrorist activities. The deuterium fluoride chemical laser fires, hitting the rocket or shell and causing it to explode far short of its intended target. They are not the answer to all the challenges, and will not replace kinetic weapons, but they are an essential adjunct to countering specific threats and providing dominance in land, air, sea, and space. They can not only achieve these speeds but can maneuver at them as well including varying trajectories, headings and altitudes. Microwave weapons can be aimed at computers, electronical devices and persons. This also includes fundamental differences such as the wavelength of the lasers and the beam quality required for success. In March 2003, North Korea may have used a ZM-87 to "paint" two U.S. Apache helicopters patrolling the Demilitarized Zone. "Mobile/Tactical High Energy Laser (M-THEL) Technology Demonstration Program," Defense Update, at http://www.defense-update.com/directory/THEL.htm (March 10, 2006). [21], A demonstration system was tested at Kirtland Air Force Base in 2000. Boeing has received a C-130H transport aircraft from the Air Force and is modifying it for installation of the laser system. 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For example, a recent test of a solid-state laser by Northrop Grumman produced a continuous 27-kilowatt beam that lasted just under six minutes.[23]. In 1995, the Chinese military marketed the ZM-87 laser interference device, a tripod-mounted battlefield laser dazzler designed to blind enemy soldiers and optics temporarily. Mounted on properly shielded aircraft or ships, or dropped in single-use "e-bombs," HPM weapons could destroy enemy radars, anti-aircraft installations, and communications and computer networks and even defend against incoming anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles. 15 Office of the Secretary of Defense, Missile Defense Review, January 2019, available at < https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Interactive/2018/11-2019-Missile-Defense-Review/The%202019%20MDR_Executive%20Summary.pdf>. The Active Denial System (ADS) is a nonlethal anti-personnel DEW that uses millimeter-wavelength beams to create a painful sensation in an individual without causing actual injury. Directed energy weapons are among the high-tech arms of the century. When these waves interact with a person, they pass through the skin and transfer energy to the water that lies just under the surface. HPM weapons have also been considered for use as nonlethal "heat ray" systems for crowd control. The humanitarian community is also concerned about the long-term biological effects of DEWs (microwaves in particular) and their possible use against civilian targets.[25]. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Directed-energy_weapon&oldid=1140806805. Neither should we. Lasers produce either continuous beams or short, intense pulses of light in every spectrum from infrared to ultraviolet. Such arrests, which could also involve direct physical torture, were condemned internationally. In 1999, the modern German state was investigating the possibility that this X-ray equipment was being used as weaponry and that it was a deliberate policy of the Stasi to attempt to give prisoners radiation poisoning, and thereby cancer, through the use of directed X-rays. 11 Megan Eckstein, Navy to Field High-Energy Laser Weapon, Laser Dazzler on Ships This Year as Development Continues, USNI News, May 30, 2019. One of the greatest attributes of directed energy weapons is that they operate at the speed of light. Andrew Gudgel, a former Army Warrant Officer, is currently a freelance writer. Depending on the particulars of the weapon, and how it is used, ERP levels can reach into the hundreds of gigawatts or higher. However, the first working laser was not built until 1960, opening an entirely new avenue of directed-energy research. The device combined two slightly different frequencies which when heard would be heard as the sum of the two frequencies (ultrasonic) and the difference between the two frequencies (infrasonic) e.g. In recent years the U.S. Navy deployed a 30kW class solid state laser weapon system (LaWS) prototype on the Afloat Forward Staging Base, USS Ponce. Vection and motion sickness can also occur. ", Press release, "Airborne Laser Progress Continues as Northrop Grumman Runs Full-Power COIL Tests, Delivers Beacon Illuminator Laser," Northrop Grumman Corporation, January 4, 2006, at, SPG Media, "ABL YAL 1A Airborne Laser, USA," at, Press release, "Boeing Receives Aircraft for Laser Gunship Program," Boeing, January 23, 2006, at. In 2017, the Air Force Secretary and Chief of Staff signed the DE Flight Plan outlining the path ahead for the Air Force to develop and deploy both high-energy lasers and high-power RF weapons for its aircraft. For example, a recent test of a solid-state laser by Northrop Grumman produced a continuous 27-kilowatt beam that lasted just under six minutes. A year later, testing showed that the ADS could produce effects at ranges beyond current small-arms range. The United States has the technology, the resources, the talent, and the infrastructure to develop and deploy directed energy weapons to meet todays and tomorrows emerging threats. 1 Department of Defense Joint Publication 3-13.1, Electronic Warfare (Washington, DC: Department of Defense, 2012). In the case of directed energy weapons, there has been significant risk reduction which has been accomplished over several decades. This article will examine answers to these questions. A related project is the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) system, which uses a less powerful version of the ABL's COIL laser, instead of missiles, to attack ground targets. (It had little detectable effect on malleable organs such as the heart, stomach and intestines.) Directed-Energy Weapons Programs A number of countries are investing in directed-energy weapons programs. A microwave weapon can achieve this result by causing malfunctions within certain relay and processing circuits within the enemy target system. This makes targeting and tracking easier as well. The number of "shots" a laser weapon can produce is limited only by its power supply. These waves penetrate only a few millimeters into the skin and cause the sensation of heat. -13.1, Electronic Warfare (Washington, DC: Department of Defense, 2012). The release noted the HPM and HEL systems engaged and defeated dozens of unmanned aerial system targets during the exercise.14. For example, as mentioned earlier, directed energy weapons development can take advantage of progress being made in commercial industry around processors, power generation and management and even lasers subsystems themselves. In a March 6, 2018 speech, said, Im sorry for everybody out there who champions some other high priority, some technical thing; its not that I disagree with those, he told the room, But there has to be a first, and hypersonics is my first.16. [26]David Ruppe, "Directed-Energy Weapons: Possible U.S. Use Against Iraq Could Threaten International Regimes," Global Security Newswire, at http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2002/020816-dew.htm (March 15, 2006). The word laser is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. In the 1970s and '80s it became the primary method of repressing domestic 'hostile-negative'[73] forces. These data are then passed on to the mirror system, which makes appropriate corrections so that, when the COIL fires, maximum energy is transmitted to the target. The laser is being built and will be tested in mid-2006. and also Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) Symptoms of extremely high and extremely low EMFs and Directed Energy Weapons or (DEW) Please keep in mind that not all symptoms are experienced in an exact order - you may experience the worst symptoms first - or the least of the symptoms in a later stage. But again, there are major advances in these areas being made especially with the technology that has been developing in the electric car industry. In the Star Wars movies, a wide variety of directed energy weapons are depicted, from handheld light sabers to massive, spaceship-mounted laser cannons. [1]On August 24, 2004, the Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) system destroyed a salvo of mortar rounds in midair during a test. Both the Allies and the Axis powers conducted basic research and studies into primitive directed-energy weapons before World War II. Authors: Examples of this cited earlier included the Airborne Laser, the Navys LaWS program, and others. Other members of a crowd are unaffected, except by panic when they see people fainting, being sick, or running from the scene with their hands over their ears. Directed-energy weapons can be used discreetly; radiation does not generate sound and is invisible if outside the visible spectrum. This information is then transferred to an optical tracking system, which refines the target tracking and positions the beam director. A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. Researchers with AFRL use the Guidestar laser for real-time, high-fidelity tracking and imaging of satellites too faint for conventional adaptive optical imaging systems. For example, while the Chinese ZM-87 laser interference device is technically a laser dazzler, it can permanently damage the human eye at a distance of two to three kilometers. EM launchers use electrical energy to throw a mass at a target, thus making them distinct from directed energy. Some applications of directed energy weapons to solve todays challenges have already been described, such as stopping swarms of small adversary boats which have been harassing U.S. ships in international waters, or stopping vehicles carrying improvised explosive devices at a safe distance from U.S. personnel. The only question is whether the United States and its allies will achieve that dominance before an adversary does. 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