School of engineering of the air force institute of Technology Air University, 2003. — 106 p. In March 2000, the High-Energy Laser Executive Review Panel presented the Department of Defense Laser Master Plan, which reported that HEL weapons are ready for offensive and defensive applications. One candidate platform capable of performing some of the reported applications is the...
Potomac Books, Louis A. Del Monte, 2021. — 284 p. — ISBN: 9781640123304. War at the Speed of Light describes the revolutionary and ever-increasing role of directed-energy weapons (such as laser, microwave, electromagnetic pulse, and cyberspace weapons) in warfare. Louis A. Del Monte delineates the threat that such weapons pose to disrupting the doctrine of Mutually Assured...
Prometheus Books, 2019. — 320 p. The whole story of laser weapons with a focus on its many interesting characters and sometimes bizarre schemes. The laser — a milestone invention of the mid-twentieth century — quickly captured the imagination of the Pentagon as the key to the ultimate weapon. Veteran science writer Jeff Hecht tells the inside story of the adventures and...
Washington: CIA, 1987. — 12 p. Key Judgments Information available as of 30 June 1987 was used in this report. Soviet and Warsaw Pact low-energy laser rangefinders and laser targets out to several hundred US and NATO soldiers. Several tens of thousands of such systems are deployed... In addition to this existing threat, we believe with high confidence that the Soviets will also...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. — 829 p. — ISBN: 9783319312880 Directed energy weapons are nothing new to mankind; historically the origination of such weapons began centuries ago when the famous Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer; Archimedes of Syracuse used different mirrors to collect sunbeams and focused them on the...
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