{"id":208089,"date":"2025-03-07T17:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T23:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/will-directed-energy-weapons-be-the-future"},"modified":"2025-03-07T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T23:10:36","slug":"will-directed-energy-weapons-be-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/will-directed-energy-weapons-be-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Will Directed Energy Weapons be the Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w6tkL1w27Js?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What is faster than the fastest hypersonic missile?, well a beam of light, microwaves or subatomic particles but they are impossibly small and have almost no mass compared to a projectile. However, if you have enough energy you can make a weapon that works at the speed of light and in theory can shoot down anything projectile weapon we have now.<br \/> So why don\u2019t we have phasers like in Star Trek?, in this video we look at Directed Energy Weapons and what they can do now and in the future.<\/p>\n<p>This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org :<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brilliant.org\/CuriousDroid\">https:\/\/brilliant.org\/CuriousDroid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Written, researched and presented by paul shillito.<\/p>\n<p>Images and footage : Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Google, US Navy, Marine Forces Reserve, IPG Photonics, EngineerguyFederico Dios, MicrowaveMeShow, PyroGadgets, <a href=\"http:\/\/laserpointersafety.com\">laserpointersafety.com<\/a>.<br \/> A big thank you also goes to all our Patreons <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-smile\" title=\":-)\">smile<\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Alan Johns.<br \/> Allan Versaevel.<br \/> Alok G Singh.<br \/> Andrew SMITH<br \/> Big Bubbaloola.<br \/> Brian Kelly.<br \/> Cameron Elliot.<br \/> Carl Soderstrom.<br \/> Cash Garman.<br \/> ChasingSol.<br \/> Collin Copfer.<br \/> Damien Pasche.<br \/> Daniele Noacco.<br \/> Dylan Leblanc.<br \/> Gio Pagliari.<br \/> Henning Bitsch.<br \/> Henri Saussure.<br \/> Janne Kurikka.<br \/> Johan Rombaut.<br \/> john edwards.<br \/> Jonathan Merage.<br \/> Jonathan Travers.<br \/> Juerg Hurni.<br \/> Kai Spuhler.<br \/> Kedar Deshpande.<br \/> Kevin Hinnen.<br \/> Laurent Steck.<br \/> Lorne Diebel.<br \/> L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Antal.<br \/> Marco Mangen.<br \/> Peter Barber.<br \/> Prashanth Ruthala.<br \/> Pyloric.<br \/> Sami Tirkkonen.<br \/> SHAMIR<br \/> Sk1er.<br \/> steel.<br \/> stefan hufenbach.<br \/> Steve J \u2014 LakeCountySpacePort.<br \/> Vincent.<br \/> Walt Dennig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is faster than the fastest hypersonic missile?, well a beam of light, microwaves or subatomic particles but they are impossibly small and have almost no mass compared to a projectile. However, if you have enough energy you can make a weapon that works at the speed of light and in theory can shoot down [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208089","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=208089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}