Directed-energy weapon

Directed-energy weapon link (Weapon, Technology)
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Abbreviation	DEW

A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy, including laser, microwaves and particle beams.

Non-lethal effects

The TECOM Technology Symposium in 1997 concluded on non-lethal weapons, "determining the target effects on personnel is the greatest challenge to the testing community", primarily because "the potential of injury and death severely limits human tests".

Also, "directed-energy weapons that target the central nervous system and cause neurophysiological disorders may violate the Certain Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980. Weapons that go beyond non-lethal intentions and cause 'superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering' may also violate the Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions of 1977."

Some common bio-effects of non-lethal electromagnetic weapons include:

• Difficulty breathing
• Disorientation
• Nausea
• Pain
• Vertigo
• Other systemic discomfort.

Interference with breathing poses the most significant, potentially lethal results.

High-intensity radiated field

Watch on YouTube

Defense Systems Information Analysis Center (July 30, 2019), DSIAC Webinar: "High-Power, Radio Frequency/Microwave-Directed Energy Weapon Effects"

A high-intensity radiated field can affect electronics, instruments and possibly humans.

Between Two Ages

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“In addition, it may be possible—and tempting—to exploit for strategic ­political purposes the fruits of research on the brain and on human behavior. Gordon J. F. MacDonald, a geophysicist specializing in problems of warfare, has written that accurately timed, artificially excited electronic strokes "could lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce relatively high power levels over certain regions of the earth. ... In this way, one could develop a system that would seriously impair the brain performance of very large populations in selected regions over an extended period. . . . No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades.”
Zbigniew Brzezinski

From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory

Full article: File:MindWar.pdf

Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) waves: ELF waves up to 100 Hz are once more naturally occurring, but they can also be produced artificially (such as for the Navy’s Project Sanguine for submarine communication). ELF-waves are not normally noticed by the unaided senses, yet their resonant effect upon the human body has been connected to both physiological disorders and emotional distortion. Infrasound vibration (up to 20 Hz) can subliminally influence brain activity to align itself to delta, theta, alpha, or beta wave patterns, inclining an audience toward everything from alertness to passivity. Infrasound could be used tactically, as ELF-waves endure for great distances; and it could be used in conjunction with media broadcasts as well.

External links

• High Power Microwaves - Strategic and Operational Implications for Warfare - Eileen M. Walling, Colonel, UASF, May 2000
• Electromagnetic weapons Come fry with me

References