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National Defense March 2011 Eric Beidel |
Microwave Weapon Designed to Render Electronics Useless The Air Force wants to disable enemy electronics without harming nearby buildings or people. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Ben Ames |
Air Force tunes nonlethal directed-energy weapons The U.S. Air Force wants the Active Denial System, which fires painful but nonlethal, energy, to be more portable. And U.S. Navy and Coast Guard vessels may get a smaller version of the Long Range Acoustic Device, which generates a focused beam of sound to dissuade attackers. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009 John Keller |
Navy Wants Ideas From Industry on How to Counter Directed-Energy Weapons The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) is interested in technology to counter high-energy lasers and non-lethal weapons like high-power microwave transmitters, particle beams, and pulsed high-power electromagnetic systems. |
Popular Mechanics January 28, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
From Space to Sea, New Radar Tech Could Shift Military Might This month Lockheed Martin released a 280-word statement from its radar research headquarters in New Jersey announcing a breakthrough test of an advanced radar platform. |
Popular Mechanics December 2006 David Hambling |
Tech Watch: Forecasting Pain Forget lasers, phasers and other beam weapons; radiofrequency devices are here, and they're set to "sting." |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 J.R. Wilson |
F/A-18 Fighter-Bomber's Next-Generation Radar Technology Uses COTS, is Ready for Network-Centric Warfare The first Super Hornets entered service in November 1999 with 17 cubic feet of electronics "growth space" for next-generation avionics. Block Two is making good use of that design feature with a host of upgrades. |
Popular Mechanics June 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
4 New High-Tech Weapons Pack Small Shells, Big Boom New improved small missiles, guns, bombs, and decoys will be used by the United States Armed Forces |
National Defense February 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Proliferation of Cruise Missiles Sparks Concern About U.S. Air Defenses The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan saw the rise of improvised explosive devices as the ultimate asymmetric weapon. Future conflicts, strategists warn, could expose U.S. forces on land and at sea to a deadly weapon that is extremely hard to detect: cruise missiles. |
Defense Update March 2007 |
Advantages of AESA Radars AESA radars are emitting not only radar signals, but can also be employed for non traditional ISR, as well as electronic attack. |
Popular Mechanics February 2010 David Hambling |
Special Ops Gunships To Get Pain-Inducing Weapons The Air Force is now trying to install pain rays on Special Operations gunships, which are 98-foot-long AC-130 aircraft originally designed to haul cargo. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 Ben Ames |
Digital receivers power a new generation of electronic warfare Military technology designers have shifted from analog to digital radar receivers to deal with decentralized threats. The change is a major improvement for size, weight, and power. |
National Defense December 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Pentagon Eyes Growing Short-Range Missile Threat Defense Department officials are warning that terrorists soon could strike U.S. cities with short-range missiles. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 John McHale |
DARPA Asks Raytheon to Develop Football-Field-Size Radar for Future Surveillance Airship The goal of the Integrated Sensor is Structure program is to develop a stratospheric airship-based autonomous unmanned sensor with years of persistence in surveillance and tracking of aircraft and ground forces. |
National Defense January 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Non-lethal Weapon Readied for Battlefield A directed energy weapon that causes a sensation tantamount to a "bee sting all over the body" to those unlucky enough to be on the receiving end could be deployed by the Air Force before the end of this year. |
Popular Mechanics September 29, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
The Air Force's 4 Biggest Fears In the near future, every part of a USAF mission could be compromised by a foreign military using sophisticated gear or a guerrilla force employing clever strategies. Threats aren't standing still. |
National Defense February 2009 David B. Law |
Defense Dept. Pursuing Next-Generation Nonlethal Weapons U.S. troops currently operate an array of nonlethal weapons that are becoming essential tools in today's complex battlefield. But additional capabilities are needed. |
National Defense May 2004 Frank Colucci |
Smart Missles The Army is beginning to develop sophisticated "smart" missiles and launchers, intended to be deployed in advance of maneuver forces. |
National Defense February 2008 Breanne Wagner |
Directed Energy: Low Power Weapons on the Rise As a result of growing demand in Iraq for handheld lasers, the Defense Department is reevaluating its long-term funding priorities for non-lethal weapons. |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005 |
Non Lethal Directed Energy Weapons Anti-personnel nonlethal directed energy weapons include lasers, high power electro-magnetic pulse and directional acoustic weapons. |
National Defense July 2015 Ariel Robinson |
Directed Energy Weapons: Will They Ever Be Ready? Despite promising test results and decades of research and development, it could be many more years before the military is ready to bring directed energy weapons into the mainstream. |
Popular Mechanics November 11, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
How BAE's Jam Lab Develops Countermeasures Against Antiaircraft Missiles Engineers at BAE dissect and stress older targeted antiaircraft missiles to figure out how to defend against them. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 |
In Brief Navy and Marine Corps lead BAE Systems precision-targeted weapon development program... Raytheon to modernize F-15E radar... Lockheed Martin wins contract for U.S. Air Force Self-Awareness Space Situational Awareness... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009 |
Laser Weapons Are Here: ATL Test Shows Ability to Attack Moving Targets Effectively From the Air The U.S. Air Force's experimental Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) hit and damaged a moving vehicle in late September in a test that demonstrated for the first time the laser weapon's ability to attack moving targets effectively. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 |
In Brief Lockheed Martin to provide 17 radar systems to Romania... Boeing awarded second contract for F-15 radar upgrade work... Northrop Grumman to build U.S. Army missile interceptor system prototype... etc. |
National Defense July 2011 Eric Beidel |
Military Investigates Killer Drones That Can Fit in Rucksacks Troops are demanding smaller unmanned aerial vehicles on the front lines, sparking efforts to develop lighter weapons for the aircraft. Now there are plans to make weapons out of the drones themselves. |
Popular Mechanics September 17, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
The Flying Future for America's Missile Shield The big news in missile defense this week is that the Obama administration will likely scale back plans to install ground-based missile defense interceptors in Europe that are designed to protect allies and U.S. forces in Europe from long-range Iranian missiles. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 John McHale |
Incoming! Precision Guidance Keeps Munitions on Target Lasers, global positioning systems, and other modern technologies have made hitting fixed targets with missiles and bombs extremely efficient. Now defense experts are designing systems to hit targets on the move and beyond line of sight. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John McHale |
Sensors Light Path to Defeating Incoming Military designers are taking advantage of the latest sensor technology and signal processing systems to track and kill incoming enemy missiles. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 John Keller |
Radar technology looks to the future Modern radar systems are combining advanced materials, solid-state modules, digital signal processors, and complex A-D converters to give a better look to military and civilian users who need the best possible capability in small, compact, and efficient packages. |
Defense Update March 2007 |
Smart Weapons for UAVs The Origins of Weaponized UAVs... Deployment of Weaponized UAVs... Gravity Dropped Munitions for UAVs... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2005 DeBlois et al. |
Star-Crossed Should the United States, or any nation for that matter, weaponize space? From orbiting lasers to metal rods that strike from the heavens, the potential to wage war from space raises startling possibilities---and serious problems. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 |
Raytheon researchers eye boosting laser power to weapons-grade levels High-power laser systems made from low-power modules would leapfrog bottlenecks to create ever-higher-power monolithic laser systems. |
Popular Mechanics July 9, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
As Iran Tests Missile Fleet, Experts Map High-Tech Israeli Attack Iran announced that it had tested nine ballistic missiles, but the country's stockpile of U.S.-built I-HAWK missiles would pose the biggest threat as anti-aircraft weapons in defending against a potential attack on its nuclear facilities. |
Popular Mechanics May 28, 2008 Erik Sofge |
Gaming's Guns of Tomorrow: Ready For War--or Inspiration? Futuristic shooter games always balance the pace with modern defense technology with the arsenal of fair game play. Do developers go overboard with the cosmetics of carnage, or could their weapons inform the 22nd-century military? |
National Defense March 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Military May Be Souring On Laser Weapons The Pentagon's enthusiasm for laser weapons is not what it used to be. |
AskMen.com Aaron Broverman |
Top 10: Future Weapons In the wrong hands, these weapons could pick entire civilizations clean, but thankfully when used with striking precision and tactical strategy these weapons mean more of the good guys survive, while all that evil never stands a chance. |
National Defense March 2014 Sharp & Thurman |
U.S. Military Needs Improved Missile Defense Technology The United States is confronting threats such as cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and ballistic missiles that can potentially overwhelm the Defense Department's legacy air and missile defense systems. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006 John McHale |
Synthetic Aperture Radar Technology Key Part of Space-Based Radar The technology of synthetic aperture radar, which has been used to map the Earth from space, will play an integral role in the U.S. Department of Defense's space-based radar programs. |
National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Sea-Based Missile Defense Scores Hits, But Will it Work in a Real Attack? There is still one major weakness in U.S. missile defense systems that neither the Navy nor the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has yet been able to overcome -- the ability to discern real warheads from harmless decoys. |
National Defense March 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Directed Energy Weapons Face Hurdles Directed energy weapons used by Stryker crews are on the verge of being deployed, but there are several hurdles program directors and policymakers must overcome if these new systems are to make an impact in urban battlefields. |
National Defense March 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Non-Lethal Weapon May Spark Controversy No speakers elicited more questions from the audience at a recent directed energy conference than Stephanie Miller, a researcher working on a non-lethal weapon that employs microwave millimeter technology to make human targets recoil from attack by causing debilitating pain. |
National Defense May 2006 Grace Jean |
Missiles May Become Aerial Surveillance Alternative Mounting inexpensive cameras onto missiles and having them fly loops in the sky may sound like a recipe for disaster, but they may provide troops with a better and cheaper alternative to unmanned aerial vehicles, experts argue. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009 J.R. Wilson |
Directed-Energy Weapons Will be the Next Generation of Precision-Guided Munitions Directed-energy weapons are on the top of the wish list for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). |
National Defense February 2016 Ashley Johnson |
Naval Energetics Research Needs Renewed Focus While other nations are making strides in energetic material development, the United States has remained dormant. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2010 Philip E. Ross |
Ford Taurus Comes With Air-Force-Grade Radar Ford's Taurus puts a very big radar in a very small package |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 J.R. Wilson |
Ballistic Missile Defense Looks to the Future Command centers that will help guide ballistic missile defense efforts are providing opportunities for a wide variety of commercial off-the-shelf computers, displays, and high-speed networking. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2011 Paden et al. |
A Next-Generation Ice Radar Scientists can now probe polar ice sheets better than ever using synthetic-aperture radar |
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Gen. Keys: USAF Should Curb Appetite for Designer Weapons The pursuit of the perfect precision weapon may have gone too far, said a senior Air Force official. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 Keller & Wilson |
Information Technology is Key to Air Force 2020 As Air Force leaders look to the future, they are examining how information dominance and real-time shared situational awareness are critical to the challenges of four kinds of military operations. |
Defense Update Issue 2, 2007 |
Arming the Attack Helicopter for Asymmetric Warfare Adequately protected and armed, attack helicopters can rapidly deploy as called for by the situation -- even low intensive combat missions.. |