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Through these channels, Ionatron's blaster sent man-made lightning bolts. Thor IED Zappers : The vehicular system is mounted on a remotely controlled weapon station, carrying the laser beam director and high-energy laser and coaxial 12.7 mm machine gun to neutralize improvised explosive devices from a safe, standoff distance. [ 7 ]
Applied Energetics, Inc. (formerly Ionatron) is an American arms manufacturer. It develops directed-energy weapons, mainly electrolasers with a range of tens of meters. [1] Applied Energetics stock is publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange. When still named Ionatron, it traded under the ticker symbol IOTN. In February 2008, the company name was ...
An electrolaser is a type of electroshock weapon that is also a directed-energy weapon.It uses lasers to form an electrically conductive laser-induced plasma channel (LIPC). A fraction of a second later, a powerful electric current is sent down this plasma channel and delivered to the target, thus functioning overall as a large-scale, high energy, long-distance version of the Taser ...
FILE - A nighttime, tornadic mezocyclone lightning storm shoots bolt of electricity to the ground and lights up the field and dirt road in Tornado Alley. (FOX Weather)
To facilitate the harvesting of lightning, a laser-induced plasma channel (LIPC) could theoretically be used to influence lightning to strike in a predictable location. A high power laser could be used to form an ionized column of gas, which would act as an atmospheric conduit for electrical discharges of lightning, which would direct the lightning to a ground station for harvesting.
Coastal Southern California, which rarely sees lightning, recorded several hundred bolts Monday in a string of unusual thunderstorms that also brought hail.
Experts at lightning research firm Vaisala, based in Finland, reported 194 million cloud-to-ground and in-cloud lightning events occurred in the continental Shocker: 194M bolts of lightning ...
Heck's device consisted of two sig runes drawn side by side like lightning bolts, and was soon adopted by all branches of the SS – though Heck himself received only a token payment of 2.5 Reichsmarks for his work. [3]