A directed-energy weapon is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. Potential appl
Police car equipped with an LRAD-500X sonic weapon (Warsaw, Poland, 2011)
A Viettel V-EMP/S land-based microwave weapon, being marketed as a high-powered drone countermeasure.
A Pischal-Pro anti-drone rifle, featured at the Dubai Airshow, 2019
Members of the Directed Energy and Electric Weapon Systems Program Office of the US Navy, fire a laser through a beam director on a Kineto Tracking Mount, controlled by a MK-15 Phalanx Close-In Weapons System
The Active Denial System is a directed-energy weapon developed by the U.S. military, designed for area denial, perimeter security and crowd control. Informally, the weapon is also called the heat ray
Directed-energy weapon
…range. They are also called High Energy Radio Frequency (HERF) weapons, and can be used to disrupt or destroy electronics, vehicles, or communications. Active Denial System is a millimeter wave source that heats the water in a human target's skin and thus causes incapacitating pain. It was developed by the U.S. Air Force…
An operational version of the Active Denial System (2008)