Directed-energy weapon | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-06

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00:01:06 1 Operational advantages
00:02:09 2 Microwave weapons
00:05:22 3 Laser weapons
00:05:32 3.1 Electrolaser
00:05:58 3.2 Pulsed energy projectile
00:06:34 3.3 Dazzler
00:08:44 3.4 Laser weapon examples
00:17:00 3.5 Problems with laser weapons
00:17:10 3.5.1 Blooming
00:19:45 3.5.2 Countermeasures
00:21:27 4 Particle-beam weapons
00:22:29 4.1 Plasma weapons
00:23:11 5 Sonic weapons
00:24:04 5.1 Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD)
00:24:59 6 History
00:25:08 6.1 Mirrors of Archimedes
00:26:00 6.2 Robert Watson-Watt
00:26:33 6.3 The fictional "engine-stopping ray"
00:27:48 6.4 German World War II experimental weapons
00:30:13 6.5 Reported use in Sino-Soviet conflicts
00:30:44 6.6 Strategic Defense Initiative
00:31:50 6.7 Iraq War
00:32:18 6.8 Alleged tracking of Space Shuttle iChallenger/i
00:33:44 7 Planetary defense
00:34:07 8 Non-lethal weapons
00:35:52 9 See also



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A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy, including laser, microwaves and particle beams. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices.In the United States, the Pentagon, DARPA, the Air Force Research Laboratory, United States Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center, and the Naval Research Laboratory are researching directed-energy weapons and railguns to counter ballistic missiles, hypersonic cruise missiles, and hypersonic glide vehicles.  These systems of missile defense are expected to come online no sooner than the mid to late-2020s.Russia, China, India, and the United Kingdom are also developing directed-energy weapons.
After decades of R&D, directed-energy weapons are still at the experimental stage and it remains to be seen if or when they will be deployed as practical, high-performance military weapons.