Particle Beam Weapons

1958 - Particle Beam Weapons development by DARPA SeeSaw 27 million spent by 1972
1974-1978 Chair Heritage Particle Beams for Navy
Micro Explosions of fusion fuel Pellets - miniature versions of hydrogen bombs
Internal Confinement Fusion simulates effects of nuclear explosion
Accelerator Technology and pulsed power systems
1977- Soviet Union Particle Beam Weapons for ballistic missile defense - Air force Major George
Keegan


1940's Radar Technology
1965 Infrared Imaging U.S. Military
1979 Machine Automated Infrared Imaging and Tracking
1970's Sophisticated Laser and Beamed Energy Technologies

Infrared Chemical lasers- LEO
Lasers in Geosyncrnous Orbit; Ultraviolet .3 micrometers - works well at
lower powers
Infrared + Hydrogen + florine- 2.7 micrometer wavelength
placed in satellite orbiting earth at altitude of 1000kilometers
.3 to 1.0 meter spot focus
wavelength = 2.7 micrometers

Free Electron
Excimer Lasers- electrically driven ultraviolet lasers-geosynchronous
X-Ray lasers- produced by nuclear explosions

Laser History

1960' s - First Lasers and simple laser operations such as imaging from a satellite with
infrared
1970's - First powerful Military Operational Lasers
1980's-
1984 -Laser with 2 million watts exits
1990's - Laser with 10 million watts
1989 - COIL - Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser super sophisticated improvements
1953 first MASAR - Charles H. Towns Columbia University
1958?- Laser Theory - Charles H. Towns
1959 -Gold Takes laser to TRW to develop for DARPA - Gas Laser
1960 July-7 : Hughes research lab Theodore H. Maimen - Ruby Rod Laser
1960's:
Carbon Dioxide Laser - Invisible beam at wavelength of 10 micro meters in the infrared
C. Kumar N. Patel at Bell Lab 8800 Wats 750 foot beam
1967 - Gasdynamic Carbon Dioxide Laser- scalable to high energies (Patel) 60 kilowatts
1969 - Chemical Lasers reach high power
1970's Laser range finders and designators
1970's -Air force tested first gasdynamic carbon dioxide laser Kirkland Air force Base
1973 - Air force tests shooting down drones with laser in plane kept secret until 1982
Air force Weapons Laboratory Kirkland Air Force Base
1975 - Army uses 30 to 40 kW laser in a tank to shoot down helicopter drones at Redstone
Arsenal at Alabama
1978 - Navy - moderate power Chemical Laser 400 kW to shoot down a TOW antitank missile,
San Juan Capistrano California Beam Target interactions, pointing and tracking ,
atmosphere propagation
1982 - 2 Billion spent of research and testing