{"id":102215,"date":"2020-02-11T21:49:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T05:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/boeing-has-patented-a-plasma-force-field-to-protect-against-shock-waves"},"modified":"2020-02-11T21:49:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T05:49:39","slug":"boeing-has-patented-a-plasma-force-field-to-protect-against-shock-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/boeing-has-patented-a-plasma-force-field-to-protect-against-shock-waves","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Has Patented a Plasma \u2018Force Field\u2019 to Protect Against Shock Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/boeing-has-patented-a-plasma-force-field-to-protect-against-shock-waves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As weapons get more sophisticated, researchers are trying to build defence systems that can keep pace, and what\u2019s better than a force field?<\/p>\n<p>Aerospace and defence giant Boeing has been awarded a patent to develop a force field-like system that could protect military vehicles from shockwaves following explosions from missiles or improvised explosive devices.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing\u2019s proposed system involves using a combination of lasers, electricity and microwaves to rapidly heat up the air between the vehicle and a blast. This heat creates a plasma shield that\u2019s denser than the surrounding air and able to deflect or absorb the energy from the incoming shockwave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 As weapons get more sophisticated, researchers are trying to build defence systems that can keep pace, and what\u2019s better than a force field? Aerospace and defence giant Boeing has been awarded a patent to develop a force field-like system that could protect military vehicles from shockwaves following explosions from missiles or improvised explosive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}