Star Wars Energy Weapons - Appendix 1
References and other reading material:
Introducing the Particle-Beam WeaponDr. Richard M. Roberds
Air University Review, July-August 1984
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1984/jul-aug/roberds.html
BEAR (Beam Experiments Aboard a Rocket) Project. Volume 1: Project Summary
Authors: G. J. Nunz; LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LAB NM
Report Date: 01 JAN 90
http://www.stormingmedia.us/79/7958/A795833.html
"The BEAR experiment successfully demonstrated operation of an NPB accelerator and propagation of the neutral beam as predicted in space, obtained first-of-a-kind NPB space physics data, and demonstrated the ability of the BEAR accelerator to survive recovery and to continue operating normally. No unanticipated phenomena were encountered that would significantly delay further development of NPB technology for defensive, space-based weapon systems."
LASERS IN SPACE
TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIONS FOR ENHANCING US MILITARY
CAPABILITIES
November 1997
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/occppr02.htm
LASERS AND MISSILE DEFENSE:
NEW CONCEPTS FOR SPACE-BASED AND GROUND-BASED LASER WEAPONS
July 1998
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/docs/occppr05.htm
Millimeter-wave energy to be used in a weaponPeter Clarke
EE Times
(06/06/2001 2:02 PM EDT)
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010606S0072
Now You See, Now You Don’tThe Pentagon’s blinding lasers.
September 27, 2002
http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/24/news1.shtml
WTC Victims May Have Been 'Vaporized'
RICHARD PYLE
Associated Press Writers
(12/4/20001)
http://www.firehouse.com/news/2001/12/4_APmissing.html
Microwave Steel: Faster, Cleaner, Cheaper
Source: Michigan Technological University
Date: January 26, 2004
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/01/040126073254.htm
Microwave beam weapon reportedly to be deployed in IraqPeter Clarke
Silicon Strategies
(09/21/2004 9:43 AM EDT)
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=47900605
Beam weapons almost ready for battle
Directed energy could revolutionize warfare, expert saysBy Leonard David
Senior space writer
Space.com
Updated: 1:10 p.m. ET Jan 11, 2006
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10805240/
The first US 747-400 Airborne Laser aircraft under construction at a Boeing production facility. (AFP)
US hails airborne laser as weapons milestoneLast Update: Sunday, October 29, 2006. 10:06am (AEDT)
http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1775995.htm
By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer Sat Oct 28, 12:37 AM ET
WICHITA, Kan. - The U.S. Missile Defense Agency rolled out an airborne
laser aircraft on Friday, the latest development in a missile-defense
system that was once ridiculed as a "Star Wars" fantasy.
In a ceremony at the Boeing Co.'s Integrated Defense Systems facility in
Wichita, the agency announced it was ready to flight test some of the
low-power systems on the ABL aircraft, a modified Boeing 747-400F designed
to destroy enemy missiles.
Lt. Gen. Henry "Trey" Obering III, director of the Missile Defense Agency,
said he embraced early critics' comparison of the laser-equipped plane to
the Star Wars movies.
(retreived on October 29, 2006)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061028/ap_on_re_us/airborne_laser
Space Based Laser [SBL]by Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
Last Updated December 02, 2005 2:40:54 P.M.
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/sbl.htm
Weapons in Space
by Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?formAction=325&projectId=9
Neutral Particle Beam (NPB)
by Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/npb.htm
http://www.stormingmedia.us/keywords/space_based.html
Directed Energy Weapons
http://www.stormingmedia.us/keywords/directed_energy_weapons.html
Weaponization of Space: Understanding Strategic and Technological Inevitabilities
Authors: Thomas D. Bell; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
JAN 1999
http://www.stormingmedia.us/13/1355/A135524.html
Space-Based Attack Weapons
http://www.milnet.com/space-based.html
USAF Detachment 8 Continues US Research Into EMP-Microwave Weapons
Posted 07-Mar-2006 09:09
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/nonlethal_weapons/index.php
"The Air Force is awarding a $24 million to be split among these eight companies. DID lists the companies involved in the current contract, and also notes previous contracts along similar lines that extend back to 1994"
US military scores laser success
Tuesday, 5 November, 2002, 23:53 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2407807.stm
"The US army has, for the first time, shot down an artillery shell in flight using a high-powered laser weapon. ...Two years ago, it successfully shot down a Katyusha rocket, but in Monday's test it managed to destroy a shell moving at a higher speed. ... The test took place at the White Sands missile range in New Mexico."
"Lasers were behind the space-based missile defence shield idea, labelled "Star Wars", first suggested by US President Ronald Reagan in 1983. "
DoD News Briefing
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen
Monday, April 28, 1997 - 8:45 a.m. EDT
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/1997/t042897_t0428coh.html
Scientific American: Feature: A Unified Theory
Steven Weinberg
1999
http://holtz.org/library/ToFile/Unified%20Physics%20by%202050%20December%201999.htm
DoD News Briefing
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen
Monday, April 28, 1997 - 8:45 a.m. EDT
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/1997/t042897_t0428coh.html
Scientific American: Feature: A Unified Theory
Steven Weinberg
1999
http://holtz.org/library/ToFile/Unified%20Physics%20by%202050%20December%201999.htm
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