Beam weapons (Directed Energy Weapons)

May 30, 2019

Dmytro Demydenko

Private consultant: Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Biotechnology, Drug Development, Kyiv, Ukraine

Beam weapons (Directed Energy Weapons) in the form of lasers more and more frequently appear in mass media, but, in fact, as classified weapon they have been developed and used mainly on microwave and ultrasonic frequencies for about 50 years and were installed mainly on military satellites orbiting Earth. The development of ground-based weapons is associated with the need to protect against satellites of other countries, that perform espionage functions and, using beam weapons mounted on them, can destroy unwanted objects on the Earth surface, such as sensitive elements of any civilian or military equipment, and can affect human brain.



Laureates of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics Ch. Towns, N. Basov and A. Prokhorov "For the fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which led to the creation of emitters and amplifiers on the laser-maser principle" [1, 2, 3] most likely did not imagine that their discovery would make it possible to create a fundamentally new weapon, able to almost instantly hit the target First of all, these were masers (Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation - MASER).

The first maser was built by Ch. Townes, D. Gordon, and G. Zeiger at the Columbia University in 1953 [1], which worked on ammonia and was emitting at a frequency of about 24 GHz, not visible to the human eye (the human eye sees frequencies in the range 429 to 750 THz).