{"id":87454,"date":"2019-02-06T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-pentagons-wall-of-light-laser-shield"},"modified":"2019-02-06T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:04:09","slug":"the-pentagons-wall-of-light-laser-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-pentagons-wall-of-light-laser-shield","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon\u2019s Wall-of-Light Laser Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-pentagons-wall-of-light-laser-shield2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Plasma Acoustic Shield System (PASS) is a crackling, flashing wall of light hanging in the air up to 100 meters away. And while it\u2019s the stuff of sci-fi, the laser-powered PASS already exists in prototype form, built by Stellar Photonics of Redmond, Wash., with funding from the Pentagon\u2019s Joint Nonlethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/research\/a8626\/the-pentagons-wall-of-light-laser-shield-15008409\/\">https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/research\/a8626\/the...-15008409\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 The Plasma Acoustic Shield System (PASS) is a crackling, flashing wall of light hanging in the air up to 100 meters away. And while it\u2019s the stuff of sci-fi, the laser-powered PASS already exists in prototype form, built by Stellar Photonics of Redmond, Wash., with funding from the Pentagon\u2019s Joint Nonlethal Weapons Directorate [\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-87454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87454","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=87454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}