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	Directed-energy weapon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A directed-energy weapon is a type of energy weapon that directs energy in a particular direction by a means other than a projectile.
		Some of these weapons are known as death rays or rayguns and are usually portrayed as projecting energy at a person or object to kill or destroy.
		THEL (Tactical High Energy Laser) is a weaponized deuterium fluoride laser developed in a joint research project of Israel and the U.S. It is designed to shoot down aircraft and missiles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Directed-energy_weapon (3411 words)

	Zero-point energy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In quantum field theory, it is a synonym for the vacuum energy, an amount of energy associated with the vacuum of empty space.
		Because the kinetic energy of a moving particle is proportional to the square of its velocity, it cannot be zero either.
		In quantum perturbation theory, it is sometimes said that the contribution of one-loop and multi-loop Feynman diagrams to elementary particle propagators are the contribution of vacuum fluctuations or the zero-point energy to the particle masses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zero-point_energy (2104 words)

	Tech Commentaries - Directed Energy Weapons
		Given that the three primary energy weapons of the Star Trek universe (the blaster, disruptor, and phaser) all direct their energy by the phased energy rectification of nadions, it's somewhat understandable that "phaser" is sometimes used to refer to disruptors and blasters as well.
		Not all settings are available to all weapons of a given size - smaller scale weapons typically do not have the higher settings available to larger ones (in which case, the energy weapon is simply unable to fully utilize the power that it is theoretically capable of).
		Once the multistranded energy beam is established, it is followed by an amplified discharge of the main emitter that uses the initial beam to focus the primary energy onto the target.
	home.att.net /~tomjlee/startrek/tech-b.html (4812 words)

	Directed Energy Weapons In Wikipedia : AZ IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Some of these weapons are known as death rays or rayguns and are usually portrayed as projecting energy at a person or object in order to kill or destroy.
		The speculated weapons might need to fire so much energy to get in reality the effects described in fiction, that their energy storage and conversion systems would need to be almost 100% efficient.
		The energy is provided in the first case by reaction of hydrogen peroxide with chlorine, in the second case by reaction of atomic fluorine with deuterium.
	arizona.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=32847 (4306 words)

	Energy dissipator - Memory Alpha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The energy dissipator (also referred to as the energy dampening weapon) was an advanced energy weapon used by Breen forces in the mid-2370s during the Dominion War.
		The weapon was first encountered by Federation forces when the Breen entered the Dominion War as allies of the Dominion in 2375, at the Second Battle of Chin'toka.
		The weapon works by draining the energy of targeted ships, disabling their engines, weapons, and shields, thus making them easy targets for conventional weapons.
	www.memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Energy_dampening_weapon (289 words)

	Wizards Community - New Spell: Energy Weapon
		The weapon is an exact replica of any melee weapon of the user's choice (except it glows a color designated by the caster), and deals the same damage and has the same reach and critical range of the choosen weapon.
		A projectile weapon also summons a quiver with one supply of ammo which disapears when it is consumed, the spells time ends, or the spell is dismissed.
		The weapon disapears from existance if it is dispelled, comes under the effect of a disinagrate spell, is dismissed, or it leaves the caster's possession for more than one round (this does not count when sheathing the weapon).
	boards1.wizards.com /showthread.php?t=211631 (1530 words)

	Horrifying US Secret Weapon Unleashed In Baghdad
		The secret tank-mounted weapon was witnessed in all its frightening power by Majid al-Ghazali, a seasoned Iraqi infantryman who described the device and its gruesome effects as unlike anything he had ever encountered in his lengthy military service.
		Via email, he told me he has seen virtually every type of conventional weapon employed in battle, and is well acquainted with their effects on people and machines, but nothing in his extensive combat experience prepared him for the shock of what he saw in Baghdad on April 12th.
		High-powered microwave weapons are one component of a broader category known as directed energy weapons that includes lasers.
	www.rense.com /general40/secret.htm (1452 words)

	Why War? Active Denial System: A Nonlethal 'Counter-Personnel Energy Weapon' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Traveling at the speed of light, the energy reaches the subject and penetrates the skin to a depth of less than 1/64 of an inch.
		ADS projects a focused, speed-of-light milli-meter-wave energy beam to induce an intolerable heating sensation on an adversary’s skin and cause that individual to be repelled without injury.
		Weapons designed to be less than lethal have been around for years: rubber bullets, water cannons, tear gas.
	www.why-war.com /resources/files/read.php?id=184 (648 words)

	US Developing, Testing Directed Energy Weapon
		The payload is intended as a weapon for use against a target set including: command and control, communications, and air defense assets.
		British industry leaders readily admit to an interest in directed energy weapons; however, they decline to discuss any specific aspects of work they might be pursuing.
		British timelines for having tactically representative directed energy weapons roughly parallel those of the U.S. with which there appear to be some collaborative efforts.
	www.rense.com /general28/dir.htm (777 words)

	Weapons
		Weapons are used by Ships to destroy any kind of target.
		The Weapon is specialized in taking down Shields, and since Capital Ships have the best Shields of all Ships, the Weapon is appropriate.
		Energy-based, this Weapon is used to repair the Hull of any Ship/Station.
	www.geocities.com /allegiance_academy/Weapons.html (536 words)

	The energy weapon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Indeed, US outrage at the use of energy as a weapon invites the rejoinder of whether this is worse than use of weaponry for energy.
		This has created a new “economic nationalism” among countries which possess large energy reserves: Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and most recently, Bolivia, have all thrown the rich countries into confusion, since these have regarded access to the materials indispensable for their high-consuming lifestyles as both a right and a necessity.
		Energy as an economic weapon is once more a destabilising force.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1659338/posts (1641 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The US military is funding development of a weapon that delivers a bout of excruciating pain from up to 2 kilometres away.
		The weapon, destined for use in 2007, could literally knock rioters off their feet.
		According to a 2003 review of non-lethal weapons by the US Naval Studies Board, which advises the navy and marine corps, PEPs produced "pain and temporary paralysis" in tests on animals.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn7077 (631 words)

	TASER Energy Weapons in the News
		A TASER conducted energy weapon is not classified as firearm by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives since it uses compressed nitrogen gas as the propellant.
		A distinction needs to be made with the old Tasertron conducted energy weapon that used fl powder for the propellant and was classified as a firearm under U.S. Federal and state regulations.
		The courts have routinely held that the use of a TASER conducted energy weapon is not a violation of clearly established Constitutional law governing excessive force.
	www.pressbox.co.uk /Detailed/22905.html (1537 words)

	New non-lethal energy weapon heats skin
		Experts confirmed it was the first time the military had designed a so-called "directed energy weapon" for use against human targets.
		The weapon concentrates energy into a beam of micro-millimeter waves that penetrate clothes to rapidly heat moisture particles in the outermost layer of flesh without going deep enough to damage organs.
		The weapon could be mounted atop a military vehicle or on an aircraft.
	www.you.com.au /news/301.htm (515 words)

	www.mikrowellenterror - Targeting the Human with Directed Energy Weapons
		Directed energy weapons are among the high-tech arms of the century.
		These weapons are also part of crimes (in Europe) that almost nobody knows except the victims and the offenders.
		Through the illegal usage of innovative high-tech weapons, people are not ”shot”, rather their living quarters are bathed in (high frequency) electromagnetic waves for a length of time.
	www.mikrowellenterror.de /english/mw-weapon.htm (1249 words)

	Glimpses—The Hammer of Thor, the Lightnings of Zeus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Because an energy weapon requires more time than a kinetic weapon to deliver a damaging amount of energy, it may be necessary to hold that weapon on a target for a full second or longer.
		Normally, the beams or pulses emitted by an energy weapon firing in a vacuum are completely invisible to the naked eye, even if some or all of the energy is in the optical spectrum, since there is no medium to reflect, refract, or absorb it.
		Upon detonation, the tremendous energy of the explosion is “pumped” into the rods, which act as “lasing” mechanisms, each rod producing a powerful coherent pulse of x-radiation or gamma radiation.
	www.arclight.net /~pdb/hammer-lightnings (4075 words)

	USATODAY.com - Energy beam weapon may lower Iraq civilian deaths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The weapon will be demonstrated in public this summer and in Iraq within months.
		It is the first in what could become a catalog of energy beams that aim to ease one of the war's toughest problems.
		The ADS is one of several directed-energy weapons, some dating to President Reagan's space-based missile defense research program.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2005-07-24-energy-beam_x.htm (554 words)

	TomDispatch - Tomgram: Nick Turse on Iraq as a weapons lab
		Since the invention of weapons, man has been attempting to improve them; and since World War II, the United States has been the leading global actor in the research and development of weapons meant to incapacitate people.
		As the fears of the Vietnam era continue to fade, successive, sometimes concurrent wars and foreign adventures provide the means to constantly improve and upgrade weapons, early versions of which are rushed into battle for real-world testing, re-tooling and perfecting on what increasingly seems to be the global assembly line of the military-industrial complex.
		Predators, which were once a surveillance tool but are now lethal attack weapons, will soon be joined there by the LRAD non-weapon and, perhaps, the active-denial system (which, according to one test-subject, felt like an explosion of heat and pain) as well as who knows what other exotic weaponry.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=1338 (1920 words)

	Directed Energy Weapon Systems Update
		weapon system has been in use for 6 years and
		high energy laser beam and keeps it accurately pointed at the rocket until it is destroyed.
		It demonstrated the effectiveness of using high energy lasers to defeat
	www.eyepod.org /Weapons-DEWS-Update-L-3.html (586 words)

	Defense Tech: LASERS 1, MORTARS 0
		Now, the ray guns are starting to prove that they can zap one of the most common battlefield threats – mortars – as well.
		In tests last week at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the Tactical High Energy Laser blasted individual mortar rounds and salvos of the munitions.
		Since 2000, the weapon, a collaboration between the American and Israeli militaries, has been successfully zapping rockets and artillery shells in tests.
	www.defensetech.org /archives/001086.html (161 words)

	Energy weapon stings enemy \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems will build a second version of a nonlethal "directed energy" weapon, designed to disperse enemy combatants or rioting crowds with a painful beam of radio waves.
		The energy penetrates less than one-sixty-fourth of an inch, heating the skin's surface and causing a stinging sensation.
		Groups including Amnesty International have decried the development of pain-causing energy weapons, contending that their health effects are largely unknown and that they could be misused if they fell into the wrong hands.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/73663 (723 words)

	Defuse Russia's energy weapon - Military Photos
		Moscow's deployment of the "energy weapon" dates from 1990, when it cut energy supplies to the Baltic countries in a futile attempt to stifle their independence movements.
		It was again used against the Baltic states in 1992, in retaliation for demands that Russia remove its remaining military forces.
		The Russia-Ukraine "gas war," which recently drew the world's attention to Moscow's energy flmail, was purportedly resolved to the satisfaction of both sides on Jan. 4, but few people familiar with political and economic relations between Russia and Ukraine believe that this agreement will last very long.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=69782 (1141 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Russia wields the energy weapon
		It is sitting on more than a fifth of the world's known reserves of natural gas and has at least 75 billion barrels of oil - about 7% of total world reserves.
		Using energy as a weapon is a dangerous card to play.
		According to Cliff Kupchan, the Kremlin is using energy in different ways, depending on the arena.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/4708256.stm (600 words)

	Introducing the DOUBLE HELIX energy weapon!--Don Croft
		By the way, last time we got together for an evening session we discovered that the men, at least those of us who were present in that session, were less able to be the channel for the energy than the women were, and it wasn't for lack of trying.
		The energy weapons are always going to be useful, of course, but many folks I'm encountering just don't need them.
		I use my heart as the energy sender once I've created this image and my breathing is sort of like a bellows that 'blows' the energy through my heart.
	www.whale.to /b/croft60.html (882 words)

	Gray Energy Weapon Property (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gray Energy (Weapon Property): A strange counterpart to the brilliant energy weapon type, a gray energy weapon has its significant portion--such as its blade, axe head, or arrowhead--transformed into a dull gray energy that sheds barely enough light to illuminate itself.
		A gray energy weapon is disruptive to nonliving material but ignores living matter.
		A weapon cannot have both the brilliant energy and gray energyweapon properties.
	seankreynolds.com /rpgfiles/magicitems/grayenergyweaponproperty.html (266 words)

	Wired News: Beam It Right There, Scotty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The directed-energy component in the project is the Active Denial System, developed by Air Force researchers and built by Raytheon Co. It produces a millimeter-wavelength burst of energy that penetrates 1/64 of an inch into a person's skin, agitating water molecules to produce heat.
		The range of the beam also is secret, though it is said to be further than small arms fire, so an attacker could be repelled before he could pull a trigger.
		For example, the prototype system can be mounted on a Humvee but the vehicle has to stop in order to fire the beam.
	wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,68152-2,00.html?... (852 words)

	Pulsed Energy Projectile EMPs Your Nervous System: Science Fiction in the News
		The Pulsed Energy Projectile (PEP) is a weapon currently under development by the US Military.
		The weapon can be calibrated to merely warn groups or individuals, or to have more devastating effects.
		Fine-tuning the pulse demonstrated that it was possible to trigger particular receptors, giving the sensations of burning, physical damage, pressure, or cold.
	www.technovelgy.com /ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=551 (337 words)

	New technology 'dazzles' aggressors [Directed Energy Weapon] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The weapon, developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate, employs a two-wavelength laser system and is a hand-held, single-operator system for troop and perimeter defense.
		The laser light used in the weapon temporarily impairs aggressors by illuminating or "dazzling" individuals, removing their ability to see the laser source.
		The technology is the first man-portable, non-lethal deterrent weapon intended for protecting troops and controlling hostile crowds.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1514515/posts (1319 words)

	Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This study examines, from a systems engineering design perspective, the potential of kinetic energy weapons being used in the role of a conventional strategic weapon.
		The study examined (1) a number of generic missions, (2) the effects of a number of damage mechanisms from a physics perspective, (3) measures of effectiveness (MOE`s), and (4) a design envelope for kinetic energy weapon concepts.
		With the base of information a cut at developing a set of high-level system requirements was made, and a number of concepts were assessed against these requirements.
	www.osti.gov /bridge/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=273723 (257 words)

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