The advantages of the Directed Energy is perhaps best illustrated by comparing it to a traditional bullet.
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These could involve ground-based anti-missile systems, airborne lasers and space-based sensors and, in due course, weapons (interceptors and directed energy).
Decentralize SDIO, cut its staff from 269 to 100 and transfer directed energy weapons programs to DARPA or the services.
Directed energy weapons such as lasers and particle beams, (either ground-based or space-based, having sufficient power to damage satellites or their sensors).
Directed energy weapons are the weapons of the future soldier, but successful tests have been recently conducted by American and German defense technology firms.
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Directed energy will give lots of new options, but no one is getting rid of guns or missiles for a long, long time, if ever.
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Under Swanson the company has gotten more serious about directed energy.
" According to Air Force documents, this project calls for "a device that uses directed energy technology to prevent and abate unwanted plants (weeds) in areas that require control or defoliation.
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With Directed Energy, the cost of firing is negligible.
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Dan Wildt, Northrop's vice president of directed energy systems, says that if the military decides to begin using these weapons, they could be in the field by the middle of the decade.
Directed energy (DE) is an umbrella term covering technologies that produce a beam of concentrated electromagnetic energy or atomic or subatomic particles as a direct means to damage or destroy adversary equipment, facilities, and personnel.
The Airborne Laser program is a direct descendent of Ronald Reagan's visionary Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), with its exploration of various means of intercepting and destroying ballistic missiles - including lasers and other "directed energy" techniques.
Directed energy has long been considered science fiction (and frankly some of the real world programs should have stayed in science fiction), but it looks like this is the generation where we will finally see it be used on the battlefield.
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Specifically, the Bingaman-Shelby amendment would greatly retard progress being made on space-based interceptors known as Brilliant Pebbles in favor of a limited deployment of a single layer of ground-based interceptor missiles and open-ended research on more exotic directed energy technologies devices that would come on-line (if at all) far down-stream.
For the offense, one would utilize electronic jamming, electronic deception, directed-energy weapons, and electromagnetic pulse weapons.
"Here you see all this energy directed at uttering a word, a sentence, but still there is the impossibility of talking or saying something, " says Davids, as her performers huddle behind the screens, their drying lips clamped to foam.
All of Eisner's energy is directed at figuring out how to make the kids feel a positive drive toward their futures.
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Suspend further action on large-scale U.S. and multinational aid flows to Russia, particularly those directed toward the strategic energy sector which is still effectively controlled by, and which primarily benefits, the old military-industrial sector.
Suspend further action on large-scale U.S. and multinational aid flows to Russia, particularly those directed toward the strategic energy sector -- which is still effectively controlled by, and which primarily benefits, the old military-industrial sector.
What will lead us there are directed government investments in energy innovation, in which a smart user fee on energy consumption or carbon emissions can play an important, but fundamentally different (and less central role) as envisioned by conventional cap and trade, carbon tax, and gas tax proponents.
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He said revenue from expanding domestic energy should be directed toward that.
He adds that they have been watching what has been happening in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia and some now wish their energy had been directed towards similar ends.
These are sanctions directed primarily against Iran's energy sector but these measures need to be fully implemented.
This involves high energy shock waves being directed at the stone.
Knowledge sharing led to extremely successful business opportunities for companies like GE and construction company Cemex (in green energy and building materials directed toward the bottom of the period in Latin America, respectively).
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Just as fever (which is also controlled by cytokines) creates an environment hostile to the reproduction of bacteria and viruses, so lethargy conserves energy that can be directed to building up the immune system an extremely demanding task.
Any energy-related assistance should be directed to qualifying republics where the West can verify that the vast majority of newly generated hard currency revenues (stemming from enhanced oil and gas production and exports) would be strictly earmarked for civilian economic development within the republic.
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All that energy, however, needs to be directed to a specific outcome.
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Mr Obama has directed stimulus money to domestic manufacturers of renewable-energy technology, promised to revisit controls on exports of technology with national-security implications and has said he will protect American intellectual-property rights more rigorously abroad.
Imagine what could be accomplished if the same amount of attention and energy given to announcements by the Fed was directed toward putting this pro-growth economic agenda into action.
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