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. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices. [1] [2]

2020年1月9日 · In the Star Wars movies, a wide variety of directed energy weapons are depicted, from handheld light sabers to massive, spaceship-mounted laser cannons. What exactly is a directed energy weapon? Are these weapons still science fiction, lab experiments, or are they real? How can they be used and how disruptive can they be?

2023年5月25日 · Directed energy weapons (DEW) use concentrated electromagnetic energy to combat enemy forces and assets. These weapons include high energy lasers and other high power electromagnetics—such as millimeter wave and high power microwave weapons.

2021年9月4日 · As the name suggests, directed-energy weapons (sometimes abbreviated to DEW) are a series of ranged weapons that use highly focussed energy to impact targets, as opposed to firing a solid...

2024年6月14日 · What are Directed Energy Weapons? Directed energy weapons (DEWs) use focused electromagnetic energy to engage and neutralize enemy threats and assets. These weapons encompass high-energy lasers and high-power electromagnetic systems, including millimeter wave and microwave weapons.

2021年10月30日 · DOD defines directed energy weapons as those using concentrated electromagnetic energy, rather than kinetic energy, to “incapacitate, damage, disable, or destroy enemy equipment, facilities, and/or personnel.”3 DE weapons include high-energy laser (HEL) and high-powered microwave (HPM) weapons.

2019年11月2日 · Future weapon systems at full capability could fire a projectile more than 200 nautical miles, in contrast to the Navy’s MK45 5-inch gun, which has a range of approximately 13 miles. The EMRG uses high-power electromagnetic …

2024年1月25日 · Directed energy weapons offer a more cost-efficient means of dealing with fast-proliferating threats. If the technology can be matured, such systems could tip both the military and economic calculus of modern warfare in their users' favor.

Defense (DOD) continues to invest in directed-energy (DE) weapons, Congress may consider implications for defense authorizations, appropriations, and oversight.

2024年1月9日 · – The new head of Naval Surfaces Force wants to accelerate the installation of directed energy weapons on surface warships, as the Navy grapples with low-cost, long-range attack drones proliferating widely in places like the busy commercial shipping lanes of …