The U.S. Military Wants to Zap Missiles With A Particle Beam
Michael Peck
Security,
"Star Wars" becoming real?
Using beam weapons to zap ballistic missiles has been a dream since Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” initiative.
Now the U.S. Missile Defense Agency is looking for technologies that will enable space-based particle beam weapons to shot down missiles.
More specifically, MDA wants a neutral particle beam (NPB) weapon. “A conceptual NPB system would generate, accelerate, focus, and direct a stream of highly energetic electrically-neutral atomic particles... Читать дальше...
