Military

Senior members of the Marine Corps and members of the media were invited for a demonstration of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate’s Active Denial System in mid-March. According to the U.S. Marine Corps, the new weapon is an “advanced non-lethal technology that projects a long range, man-sized beam of millimeter waves at a range of up to … [Read more...]

Naval Engineers fired the first industry-built electromagnetic railgun launcher at their test facility, “commencing an evaluation that is an important intermediate step toward a future tactical weapon for ships.” This first testing starts “a two- month-long test series by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to evaluate the first of two industry-built launchers.” These tests will … [Read more...]

Researchers at Rice University believe that “microscopic channels of gold nanoparticles have the ability to transmit electromagnetic energy that starts as light and propagates via ‘dark plasmons.’” Plasmons are “waves of electrons that move across the surface of a metal, like water in a pond, when disturbed.” Head researcher, Stephan Link, has “developed a way to ‘print’ fine … [Read more...]