{"id":145084,"date":"2022-08-29T02:23:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T07:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/defenseless-against-hypersonic-missiles-us-navy-turns-to-faster-lethal-dews-to-battle-china-russia"},"modified":"2022-08-29T02:23:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T07:23:35","slug":"defenseless-against-hypersonic-missiles-us-navy-turns-to-faster-lethal-dews-to-battle-china-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/defenseless-against-hypersonic-missiles-us-navy-turns-to-faster-lethal-dews-to-battle-china-russia","title":{"rendered":"Defenseless Against Hypersonic Missiles, US Navy Turns To \u2018Faster &amp; Lethal\u2019 DEWs To Battle China, Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/defenseless-against-hypersonic-missiles-us-navy-turns-to-faster-lethal-dews-to-battle-china-russia2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The US Navy is exploring the novel technology of Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs) against Chinese and Russian hypersonic weapons in the absence of a potent defense against these highly maneuverable missiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top admiral of the US Navy, Michael Gilday <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/26\/politics\/us-navy-hypersonic\/index.html\">stated<\/a> that directed energy systems are being developed as a potential countermeasure against hypersonic missiles, calling the advancements made by Russia and China in hypersonic weapon technology \u201ca significant concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The development of devices that would use high-energy lasers or high-power microwaves to remove a threat is a major priority for the Navy, according to Adm. Michael Gilday, Chief of Naval Operations, who is also the Chief of US Missile Defense Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy is exploring the novel technology of Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs) against Chinese and Russian hypersonic weapons in the absence of a potent defense against these highly maneuverable missiles. The top admiral of the US Navy, Michael Gilday stated that directed energy systems are being developed as a potential countermeasure against hypersonic missiles, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145084","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}