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directed-energy weapon
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A system using directed energy primarily as a direct means to damage or destroy enemy equipment, facilities, and personnel. See also directed energy; directed-energy device.
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Douglas Beason, a retired Air Force colonel, has assembled a technical but readable text on directed-energy weapons and their impact on modern warfare.
The E-Bomb: How America's New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the ... by Van Nederveen, Gilles / Air & Space Power Journal
Just a year ago, the Pentagon's science advisors warned that a lack of progress in the development of directed-energy weapons has resulted in a significant decline in interest and support for these technologies.
Uncertain future: military may be souring on laser weapons by Jean, Grace V. / National Defense
be more revolutionary than the longbow, machine gun, stealth airplane, cruise missile, nuclear submarine, or nuclear bomb," Beason argues that directed-energy weapons represent the next development in the "revolution in military affairs.
Technologies that may yet revolutionize warfare by Martel, William C. / Naval War College Review
 
 
 
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