Beam Weapons

Author : Jeff Hecht
Publisher : Jeff Hecht
ISBN 13 : 0306415461
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beam Weapons written by Jeff Hecht and published by Jeff Hecht. This book was released on 1984-03-31 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beam Weapons examines the directed-energy weapons that became a central part of the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as "Star Wars." First published in 1984, it describes the science and technology behind directed energy weapons, the state of the art at the time Reagan launched the program, and the military issues involved. The first full-length book published on the topic, it exhaustively documents the technical and military realities and uncertainties.

Author : Bahman Zohuri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319312898
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Directed Energy Weapons written by Bahman Zohuri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves deeply into the real-world technologies behind the ‘directed energy weapons’ that many believe exist only within the confines of science fiction. On the contrary, directed energy weapons such as high energy lasers are very real, and this book provides a crash course in all the physical and mathematical concepts that make these weapons a reality. Written to serve both scientists researching the physical phenomena of laser effects, as well as engineers focusing on practical applications, the author provides worked examples demonstrating issues such as how to solve for heat diffusion equation for different boundary and initial conditions. Several sections are devoted to reviewing and dealing with solutions of diffusion equations utilizing the aid of the integral transform techniques. Ultimately this book examines the state-of-the-art in currently available high energy laser technologies, and suggests future directions for accelerating practical applications in the field.“br>/div

Author : Bahman Zohuri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783030207939
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Directed-Energy Beam Weapons written by Bahman Zohuri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces modern directed-energy beam weaponry and emerging technical concepts based on unclassified and declassified information. The book covers laser systems, analyzing the interaction between high-power laser beams and matter, and examines penetration of high power beams such as microwave and scalar wave. It also covers the use of particle and high-power radar beams and scalar wave as weapons of the future. In-depth coverage of the relevant mathematical and engineering topics and concepts are included. The book will provide scientists and engineers with valuable guidance on the fundamentals needed to understand state-of-the-art directed energy weaponry technology research and applications. Provides guidance on the fundamentals of state-of-the-art directed-energy weaponry technology; Introduces the physics behind directed-energy weapons; Offers in-depth coverage of mathematical and engineering topics.

Author : Bahman Zohuri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030207953
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Directed-energy Beam Weapons written by Bahman Zohuri and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces modern directed-energy beam weaponry and emerging technical concepts based on unclassified and declassified information. The book covers laser systems, analyzing the interaction between high-power laser beams and matter, and examines penetration of high power beams such as microwave and scalar wave. It also covers the use of particle and high-power radar beams and scalar wave as weapons of the future. In-depth coverage of the relevant mathematical and engineering topics and concepts are included. The book will provide scientists and engineers with valuable guidance on the fundamentals needed to understand state-of-the-art directed energy weaponry technology research and applications. Provides guidance on the fundamentals of state-of-the-art directed-energy weaponry technology; Introduces the physics behind directed-energy weapons; Offers in-depth coverage of mathematical and engineering topics.

Author : Jeff Hecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781489927798
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beam Weapons written by Jeff Hecht and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith B. Payne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429716915
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laser Weapons In Space written by Keith B. Payne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive examination of the issues surrounding the potential development by the United States of a space-based laser weapons program. The authors assess the implications of arms control agreements for a satellite-based laser program, including discussions of recent Soviet space-related arms control initiatives and the forthcoming ABM treaty review. They outline likely Soviet responses to a U.S. space-based laser system, address criticisms of the proposed program, and consider its future in light of developments in U.S. defense strategy and doctrine.

Author : Louis A. Del Monte
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640124357
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War at the Speed of Light written by Louis A. Del Monte and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War at the Speed of Light describes the revolutionary and ever-increasing role of directed-energy weapons (such as laser, microwave, electromagnetic pulse, and cyberspace weapons) in warfare. Louis A. Del Monte delineates the threat that such weapons pose to disrupting the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction, which has kept the major powers of the world from engaging in nuclear warfare. Potential U.S. adversaries, such as China and Russia, are developing hypersonic missiles and using swarming tactics as a means to defeat the U.S. military. In response, the U.S. Department of Defense established the 2018 National Security Strategy, emphasizing directed-energy weapons, which project devastation at the speed of light and are capable of destroying hypersonic missiles and enemy drones and missile swarms. Del Monte analyzes how modern warfare is changing in three fundamental ways: the pace of war is quickening, the rate at which weapons project devastation is reaching the speed of light, and cyberspace is now officially a battlefield. In this acceleration of combat called "hyperwar," Del Monte shows how disturbingly close the world is to losing any deterrence to nuclear warfare.

Author : Philip E. Nielsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979368721
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Effects of Directed Energy Weapons written by Philip E. Nielsen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedic treatment of how Directed Energy Weapons work, how the energy of these weapons is propagated to the target, and how the weapon/beam-target interaction creates effects (damage) in the target. This is a technical exposition, written at the undergraduate physics and engineering level that could serve either as a text book or as a reference text for technical practitioners. The text addresses Kinetic Energy Weapons in addition to Lasers, Microwaves and Particle Beams.

Author : Bengt Anderberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1489960945
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laser Weapons written by Bengt Anderberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Freelance Writer and Correspondent Jeff Hecht
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781511587716
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beam Weapons written by Freelance Writer and Correspondent Jeff Hecht and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beam Weapons describes the roots of Ronald Reagan's 'Star Wars' quest for a strategic defense system to intercept and destroy nuclear ballistic missiles before they could reach their targets. The goal was to develop radically new beam weapons that destroyed nuclear missiles with directed energy - laser beams or charged particles. The daring program was born at a time of intense technological optimism, when NASA talked of weekly space shuttle flights. Pentagon planners envisioned a fleet of orbiting laser battle stations that could blast thousands of nuclear missiles out of the sky. Critics dubbed the plan an impossible 'Star Wars' fantasy. The controversy quickly grew heated. In Beam Weapons, Jeff Hecht focuses on the core technical issues. He tells how lasers and particle beams work, explains what is needed for effective missile defense, and carefully analyzes the feasibility of proposed systems. More than 30 years later, the Cold War is history, but the technology Reagan sought remains beyond the state of the art. Originally published as Beam Weapons: The Next Arms Race in 1984, the book has a new subtitle to reflect its historical import. A new epilogue recalls key events of the intervening decades, and describes the Pentagon's new generation of more modest laser weapons.