Directed Energy Weapons Testing Raises Issues.

Abstract

Testing directed energy weapons (DEWs) represents a special challenge to the 21st Century tester. Continuing research and development of lasers and high-power microwave devices drives a need for the test community to create the test technology needed to evaluate these new devices. As in other types of weaponry, the tester must devise testing procedures for the two aspects (1) measuring the effects of the weapons directed against a threat target, and (2) measuring the resistive characteristics of our equipment to attack from a DEW. To appreciate the tester's challenge, let's look at the three categories of DEW's (1) lasers, (2) high-power microwave (HPM), and (3) charged particle beam (CPB) devices, and some related test issues.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 20, 1997
Accession Number
ADA323342

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army Test and Evaluation Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Charged Particles
  • Composite Materials
  • Control Systems
  • Detectors
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Ground Vehicles
  • High Power Microwaves
  • Laser Weapons
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Optical Detectors
  • Radiation
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Vehicles
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy