Protect Unmanned Surface Vessels in the Gray Zone
The U.S. Navy’s unmanned surface vessels (USVs) are proliferating across multiple areas of operation, participating in increasingly more elaborate tests,…
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AFRL Commander Highlights 2023 S&T Goals
U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Commander Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle joined the “Lab Life” podcast to discuss her vision…
Welcome to the Future: U.S. Navy Destroyers Are Getting Lasers
A proven design integrates new technology to remain combat effective. The U.S. Navy’s USS Preble, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, recently…
Revealing the Impact of Non-Lethal Weapons
Non-lethal weapons (NLWs) can be useful to U.S. military forces in a variety of contexts, but the U.S. Department of…
NSWCDD Department Stands Up High-Powered Microwave Division in Directed Energy Refocusing Efforts
Under the Directed Energy (DE) umbrella, there are two significant areas of interest: high-energy laser and high-power microwave (HPM) weapon…
Marine Bangs Drum for Investing in Non-Lethal Weapons
Enhancing “lethality” has become a buzzword at the Pentagon and a mantra among force modernizers as the U.S. military gears…
U.S. Military’s “Active Denial System” Is a 95-GHz Heat Ray
According to this article, the Active Denial System (ADS) is a non-lethal directed-energy weapon capable of shooting man-sized beam millimeter…
Report on Navy Laser, Railgun, and Gun-Launched Guided Projectiles
The following is from the September 15, 2021, Congressional Research Service report “Navy Lasers, Railgun, and Gun-Launched Guided Projectile: Background…
A New Navy Weapon Actually Stops You From Talking
The U.S. Navy has developed a new non-lethal weapon (NLW) with a specific electronic device that prevents people from communicating….
Aboard Commercial Rocket, Space Defense Agency Sends up Satellites for First Time
The Falcon 9 mission will include five Space Defense agency (SDA) satellites. These include a pair of “Mandrake II” satellites;…
United States Facing Increasing Nuclear, Space-Based Threats, Leaders Say
Two Defense Department leaders discussed threats to the United States from China and Russia and the DoD’s steps at providing…
Brief History of the Evolutions of Counter-Personnel Non-Lethal Weapons
INTRODUCTION Over the past 50+ years, a number of terms (e.g., non-lethal, less-lethal, less-than-lethal, sublethal) [1] have been used to…