The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has concluded a weeklong live-fire exercise that involved testing command and control, long-range maneuvers and electromagnetic warfare exercises.
The Air Force is surveying industry for high-power microwave (HPM) technologies that could be incorporated into unmanned aerial vehicles, bombs and cruise missiles.
While long a staple of science fiction, directed energy weapons have yet to play a major role in warfare. Taylor Dinerman examines the state-of-the-art in this area and the role such weapons might eventually play in space.
The U.S. Navy is planning on deploying a new electrical power system aboard their ships by 2011 that will allow the use of high-energy weapons such as free electron lasers, high-powered microwaves and electromagnetic rail guns.
The author analyzes the science and the risks behind high-powered microwave weapons.
The war with Iraq could allow the United States to debut a new -- and perhaps revolutionary -- class of weapons that can cripple an enemy's ability to fight without harming people or destroying buildings.They are known collectively as "high-powered microwave weapons" (HPM). They use bursts of electromagnetic energy, delivered by low-impact bombs or "ray gun"-like devices, to disable or destroy the electronics that control everything from an enemy's radar to its laptops.
The U.S. is planning to deploy electromagnetic weapons in a possible war with Iraq. EMP Cruise missles could be used to knockout Iraq's communication infrastructure but another possibility is that directed-energy microwave weapons could be used as a non-lethal antipersonnel weapon.
The US has added EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) and ADW (Agent-Defeat Weapons) missiles to its arsenal to counter foes armed with chemical or biological weapons.
A man-made lightning bolt weapon is primed to play a major role in a war against Iraq by zapping the circuitry of everything from jet fighters to TV sets while leaving people unscathed.
An overview of the possible military applications of electromagnetic weapons.