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In case you didn’t know, bullets, bombs, and nuclear weapons are old school. War mongers were far more interested in the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) “side-effect” of nuclear blasts than the explosion itself. They sought to harness these energies, in new pain-generating ways, to subjugate and demoralize all opposition. This page will contain extensive information on the history, current use, and future of directed energy weapons.

Before we start, check out the Wikipedia page on Directed-energy weapon (DEW)

How it really works

1990 : US Patent # 4959559 – Electromagnetic or other directed energy pulse launcher

You just can’t make this shit up……

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION – 4959559

The invention relates generally to transmission of pulses of energy, and more particularly to the propagation of localized pulses of electromagnetic or acoustic energy over long distances without divergence.

As the Klingon battle cruiser attacks the Starship Enterprise, Captain Kirk commands “Fire photon torpedoes”. Two darts or blobs of light speed toward their target to destory the enemy spaceship. Stardate 1989, Star Trek reruns, or 3189, somewhere in intergalactic space. Fantasy or reality. The ability to launch localized packets of light or other energy which do not diverge as they travel great distances through space may incredibly be at hand.

Following the pioneering work of J. N. Brittingham, various groups have been actively pursuing the possibility that solutions to the wave equation can be found that allow the transmission of localized, slowly decaying pulses of energy, variously described as electromagnetic missiles or bullets, Bessel beams, transient beam fields, and splash pulses. These efforts have in common the space-time nature of the solutions being investigated and their potential launching mechanisms, pulse-driven antennas.

Solutions to Maxwell’s equations follow naturally from these scalar wave equation solutions. Such electromagnetic pulses, characterized by their high directionality and slow energy decay, are called electromagnetic directed-energy pulse trains (EDEPTs). They are a step closer to a classical description of a photon, a finite-energy solution of Maxwell’s equations that exhibits a wave/particle duality. The corresponding acoustic pulses, which are solutions of the scalar wave equation, are called ADEPTs.

PDF: Localized Transmission of Electromagnetic Energy 1989

Source: arizona.edu

Directed energy Patents at Freepatentsonline

Beam characteristics of short-pulse radiation with electromagnetic missile effect

Beam characteristics such as beamwidth and beam intensity of short-pulse radiation with electromagnetic missile effect, not restricted to the electromagnetic missile, are generally range dependent in pulse propagation. An effective measure to study such beam characteristics is to investigate the local drop rate of the energy pattern in the beam profile and the local decay rate of energy in the pulse beam. It is shown that both the energy decay rate and the energy drop rate are definitely determined by the time–space source parameters so that the beam characteristics can be readily evaluated and properly controlled. Moreover, the underlying relation between the slow decay rate and the energy drop rate are constructed, which shows perfect harmony in achieving slower-energy decay and higher-energy concentration in the beam. © 1998 American Institute of Physics.

PDF: Acoustic Weapons – Sources, Propagation, Effects, Strong Sound

Source: cornell.edu

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