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A clear disadvantage of the plasma cannon is its weight. Even a small plasma cannon with only the firepower of an air gun weighs about 20 kg (44 lb) (without current supply). A foot soldier thus could not carry a plasma cannon powerful enough to be useful. It would have to be mounted in a stationary position or on a vehicle.
A plasma railgun is a linear accelerator which, like a projectile railgun, uses two long parallel electrodes to accelerate a "sliding short" armature.However, in a plasma railgun, the armature and ejected projectile consists of plasma, or hot, ionized particles in a gas-like state, instead of a solid slug of material.
Electrothermal-chemical (ETC) technology is an attempt to increase accuracy and muzzle energy of future tank, artillery, and close-in weapon system [1] guns by improving the predictability and rate of expansion of propellants inside the barrel.
The Counter-electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) is a joint concept technology demonstration led by the Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base to develop an air-launched directed-energy weapon capable of incapacitating or damaging electronic systems [55] by means of an ...
The technology can be used as a lethal weapon. The pulsed energy projectile is intended for riot control and is said to work over distances of up to 2 km. It weighs about 230 kg and can be mounted on vehicles. The US system was developed by Mission Research Corporation (now owned by Orbital ATK).
Citing a current and a former U.S. official, the New York Times reported earlier that the new intelligence was related to Russia’s attempts to develop a space-based anti-satellite nuclear weapon.
New Horizons, Plasma and high energy particle spectrometer suite (PAM) Nitrogen–phosphorus detector; Nonequilibrium Gas and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory; Non-line-of-sight propagation; Non-thermal microwave effect; Nonthermal plasma, Cold plasma; Nuclear fusion, Bremsstrahlung losses in quasineutral, isotropic plasmas, deuterium plasma; Nuclear ...
Plasma weapon, a type of directed-energy weapon that fires a beam, bolt, or stream of plasma; Plasma railgun, a linear accelerator which uses two long parallel electrodes to accelerate a "sliding short" armature MARAUDER, a United States Air Force Research Laboratory project concerning the development of a coaxial plasma railgun