Featured in High Power MicrowaveBYBrett TingleyJan 7, 2022ShareThe Navy Is Betting Big On High-Power Microwave WeaponsLasers dominate discussions about U.S. Navy directed energy weapons, but the service formed a new office devoted to systems that fire microwave beams. BYBrett TingleyJan 7, 2022ShareBYJoseph TrevithickOct 25, 2021ShareCompetition To Build An Army Stryker That Zaps Drone Swarms Heats UpA Stryker armed with a high-power microwave weapon joins a field with two other designs equipped with turreted lasers. BYJoseph TrevithickOct 25, 2021ShareBYBrett TingleyJul 26, 2021ShareJet-Powered Coyote Drone Defeats Swarm In Army TestsRaytheon claims the Army used an unspecified “non-kinetic effector” aboard one of its Coyote drones to take down a swarm of ten hostile UAVs. BYBrett TingleyJul 26, 2021ShareBYBrett TingleyJul 21, 2021ShareAir Force Directed Energy Report Argues Defensive Force Fields May Be “Just On The Horizon”The Air Force Research Laboratory argues that we’ve hit a tipping point with directed energy technologies, bringing many science fiction concepts closer to reality. BYBrett TingleyJul 21, 2021ShareBYJoseph TrevithickJul 5, 2020ShareIs The United States Firing Off “Electricity Bombs” in Syria?War zones are full of bogus rumors, but the U.S. military is doing a great deal of very real work on exotic electric weapons. BYJoseph TrevithickJul 5, 2020ShareBYJoseph TrevithickMay 19, 2020ShareX-37B’s Power Beaming Payload A Reminder Of Potential Orbital Microwave Anti-Satellite WeaponsTechnology related to sending power via a microwave beam down to Earth could potentially be applied to taking out hostile targets in space. BYJoseph TrevithickMay 19, 2020ShareBYJoseph TrevithickSep 24, 2019ShareAir Force Set To Deploy Its Counter-Drone “Phaser” Microwave Weapon OverseasThe announcement comes as the threat that small unmanned suicide drones pose is front and center after unprecedented attacks in Saudi Arabia. BYJoseph TrevithickSep 24, 2019ShareBYJoseph TrevithickJul 1, 2019ShareCongress Demands Space-Based Missile Defense Weapons and Sensors No Matter WhatThe latest draft defense spending bill orders the Pentagon to develop these systems even if its own experts oppose them. BYJoseph TrevithickJul 1, 2019ShareBYJoseph TrevithickSep 11, 2018ShareUSAF Trying To Find Weapon Used In Mystery Attacks On US Diplomats As Evidence Points To RussiaIntercepted communications point to the Kremlin as the United States continues to investigate how the attacks occurred. BYJoseph TrevithickSep 11, 2018Share
BYBrett TingleyJan 7, 2022ShareThe Navy Is Betting Big On High-Power Microwave WeaponsLasers dominate discussions about U.S. Navy directed energy weapons, but the service formed a new office devoted to systems that fire microwave beams. BYBrett TingleyJan 7, 2022Share
BYJoseph TrevithickOct 25, 2021ShareCompetition To Build An Army Stryker That Zaps Drone Swarms Heats UpA Stryker armed with a high-power microwave weapon joins a field with two other designs equipped with turreted lasers. BYJoseph TrevithickOct 25, 2021Share
BYBrett TingleyJul 26, 2021ShareJet-Powered Coyote Drone Defeats Swarm In Army TestsRaytheon claims the Army used an unspecified “non-kinetic effector” aboard one of its Coyote drones to take down a swarm of ten hostile UAVs. BYBrett TingleyJul 26, 2021Share
BYBrett TingleyJul 21, 2021ShareAir Force Directed Energy Report Argues Defensive Force Fields May Be “Just On The Horizon”The Air Force Research Laboratory argues that we’ve hit a tipping point with directed energy technologies, bringing many science fiction concepts closer to reality. BYBrett TingleyJul 21, 2021Share
BYJoseph TrevithickJul 5, 2020ShareIs The United States Firing Off “Electricity Bombs” in Syria?War zones are full of bogus rumors, but the U.S. military is doing a great deal of very real work on exotic electric weapons. BYJoseph TrevithickJul 5, 2020Share
BYJoseph TrevithickMay 19, 2020ShareX-37B’s Power Beaming Payload A Reminder Of Potential Orbital Microwave Anti-Satellite WeaponsTechnology related to sending power via a microwave beam down to Earth could potentially be applied to taking out hostile targets in space. BYJoseph TrevithickMay 19, 2020Share
BYJoseph TrevithickSep 24, 2019ShareAir Force Set To Deploy Its Counter-Drone “Phaser” Microwave Weapon OverseasThe announcement comes as the threat that small unmanned suicide drones pose is front and center after unprecedented attacks in Saudi Arabia. BYJoseph TrevithickSep 24, 2019Share
BYJoseph TrevithickJul 1, 2019ShareCongress Demands Space-Based Missile Defense Weapons and Sensors No Matter WhatThe latest draft defense spending bill orders the Pentagon to develop these systems even if its own experts oppose them. BYJoseph TrevithickJul 1, 2019Share
BYJoseph TrevithickSep 11, 2018ShareUSAF Trying To Find Weapon Used In Mystery Attacks On US Diplomats As Evidence Points To RussiaIntercepted communications point to the Kremlin as the United States continues to investigate how the attacks occurred. BYJoseph TrevithickSep 11, 2018Share
