2025 Laser weapons are fully operationally on combat systems and vehicles.

Example of directed energy weapons. They are theoretically possible but no practical examples are known to exist. For example lasers can cut through steel aluminum and many other materials in a matter of seconds. 2021 US Navy install high-energy laser with integrated optical dazzler and surveillance HELIOS systems to Arleigh Burke DDG-51 class Aegis destroyer.

An ethics concern has been raised for the use of a directed energy weapon against people with epilepsy. Steven Bardwell describes the types of beam weapons on line for development. A more recent example of an energy-directed weapon is the active denial system an American technology that uses non-lethal millimeter waves.

They can be very effective in. Such devices would probably suffer from blooming wherein energy that is intended to be focused on the target gets spreads out thus rendering the beam less effective. Plasma weapons fire a beam bolt or stream of sub-atomic particles.

A directed-energy weapon DEW is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy including laser microwaves and particle beamsPotential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel missiles vehicles and optical devices. Sensors communications and weapon systems. Clearly you can see a particle beam or beam of light appear before the initial percussion and explosion.

Freeland discusses in her very detailed essay Directed Energy Weapons For Political Control in Nexus Magazine The Non-Lethals You Dont Hear About and says this. In the United States the Pentagon DARPA the Air Force Research Laboratory United States Army Armament Research. The United States China and Russia.

Targeting directed-energy weapons against other weapon systems is an example of a sustaining innovation because the dynamic character of air warfare would evolve slowly from the. This video has been slowed down 4x and stabilized. Directed-Energy Weapons Programs A number of countries are investing in directed-energy weapons programs.