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ATHENA, The Strategic Goddess of war, destroys Truck
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Next-Generation Laser Destroys Truck

Thu, 03/05/2015 - 10:35am

by Megan Crouse, Real Time Digital Reporter, Design Group
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The Lockheed Martin ATHENA laser weapon system was recently successfully tested against a running truck. Image credit: Lockheed Martin
The Lockheed Martin ATHENA laser weapon system was recently successfully tested against a running truck. Image credit: Lockheed Martin
A Lockheed Martin fiber-optic laser burned a hole through the engine of a running truck and stopped it in its tracks during a field test on March 3, demonstrating the highest power ever documented from a laser of its type.

The ATHENA, or Advanced Test High Energy Asset, is a prototype ground-mounted laser based on the Area Defense Anti-Munitions (ADAM) laser weapon system. ATHENA also incorporates ALADIN, the 30-kilowatt Accelerated Laser Demonstration Initiative fiber laser.

ATHENA burned through the engine manifold of the running vehicle from more than a mile away.

This was the first field test for ATHENA. It uses spectral beam combining to form a beam from multiple fiber laser modules, which are more efficient and more lethal than the multiple individual 10-kilowatt lasers used in other systems, Lockheed Marin said.

View: Engineering Newswire 130: Goddess of Strategic War Blasts a Hole Through a Truck

“Fiber-optic lasers are revolutionizing directed energy systems,” said Keoki Jackson, Lockheed Martin chief technology officer. “We are investing in every component of the system – from the optics and beam control to the laser itself – to drive size, weight and power efficiencies. This test represents the next step to providing lightweight and rugged laser weapon systems for military aircraft, helicopters, ships and trucks.”

Lockheed Martin manufactures aircraft and military ground vehicles as well as radar systems, sensors, missiles, missile defense, and guided weapons. Their net sales for 2014 were $45.6 billion
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Boeing Patents Futuristic Force Field


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Aerospace and defence firm Boeing BA -0.87% has just been granted a patent for what looks like the forerunner to the kind of force-fields you typically see in sci-fi movies.

The “Method and system for shockwave attenuation via electromagnetic arc” isn’t quite the all-purpose energy shield you see around spaceships in movies like Star Wars, but it’s definitely in that ball park.

The system won’t protect people, vehicles or buildings from direct hits by bombs, guns or shrapnel, but it will protect its user from the shockwaves of nearby impacts.

As described in the typically dense language of a patent, the system would include a sensor to detect the explosion or other shockwave-producing event and determine the direction and distance of the shockwave relative to the “protected asset”. The system would then calculate a firing plan for an arc generator that’s capable of dispersing the energy density of the shockwave.

Drawing from Boeing patent for "Method and system for shockwave attenuation via electromagnetic arc"
Drawing from the Boeing patent for “Method and system for shockwave attenuation via electromagnetic arc”

“[The system] may include a sensor for detecting a source of the shockwave and generating a detection signal, an arc generator in communication with the sensor and configured to receive the detection signal therefrom, and in response thereto create an electromagnetic arc to heat a selected region of the first fluid medium rapidly to create the second, transient medium, different from the first medium, interposed between the shockwave and the protected region such that the shockwave contacts the second, transient medium,” the patent sort of explains.

Just how this arc force-field will work is left pretty open, but Boeing has submitted a few ideas, including using at least one of the following – “high intensity laser pulses, pellets forming a conductive ion trail, sacrificial conductors, projectiles trailing electrical wires or magnetic induction”.

If the first medium is, as it probably would be, the air, the idea is that the arc generator would create a second medium different in density, temperature and composition, in this case by superheating the air, which could then reflect, refract, absorb or deflect at least part of the damaging shockwave.

It sounds pretty good, but it’s not quite the force field of our sci-fi future. First off, it can’t stop actual projectiles, those would just drop right through. It also doesn’t cover an entire vehicle or area like an overturned cereal bowl, it just gets pointed in one direction. And it also isn’t something that’s always turned on, the sensor has to detect that a shockwave is on its way and then turn on in time to help save its protected asset. So we won’t be heading into battle “shields up” anytime soon, but it does sound like a baby step in that direction – if Boeing gets it working, that is!
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OC News- China’s ‘Great Cannon’ Cyberweapon Could Target Internet sites And also Computer systems Worldwide
by Joselyn Kingon April 10, 2015


chinaThe writers identified that The Great Cannon was behind a weeks-long assault on GitHub and also the anti-censorship team GreatFire. The guide contrasts the Great Cannon from the NSA’s Quantum system, which is additionally qualified of dental implanting malware on devices around the globe. China has actually ended up being a lot more brazen from its Internet assaults considering that Edward Snowden dripped the hacking capabilities of the NSA in 2013. The GreatFire and also GitHub assaults targeted computer systems that had actually connected from Baidu, China’s biggest search engine.

The current assault functioned by taking command of countless internet internet browsers on computer systems worldwide and also flooding web traffic to GreatFire and also Github. This sort of strike is called a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), yet the Great Cannon has the prospective to create a lot more mayhem.

Any type of computer system seeing a Chinese internet site that does not completely make use of HTTPS file encryption modern technology can be contaminated from destructive software program.
This could possibly suggest it might function as a “guy between,” obstruct unencrypted e-mail to or from a target as well as “undetectably change” genuine add-ons from harmful payloads, “messing up e-mail sent out from China to outdoors locations,” the record claimed.

Not material from censoring internet material from its very own residents, China is now able to assault websites outside the nation from a brand-new device being referred to as the “Great Cannon,” a guide claims. The brand-new cyberweapon enables China to take global sites offline as well as set up destructive software application on computer systems around the globe.

Baseding on the record, the Great Cannon “stands for a considerable rise in state-level details command.” Unlike the Great Firewall, it offers China the power to assault internet sites throughout the globe.

The Great Cannon is supposed considering that it is an offending device made use of to strike international websites, rather than The Great Firewall, which is the name offered to China’s residential Web-censoring innovation.

Information of the cyberweapon were launched in a Citizen Lab guide by computer system experts from the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto; the International Computer Science Institute; the University of California, Berkeley; as well as Princeton University. The writers figured out that The Great Cannon lagged a weeks-long assault on GitHub and also the anti-censorship team GreatFire. The assault removed a Chinese variation of the New York Times internet site, organized on GitHub, and also GreatFire.org, which aids Internet individuals prevent Chinese censors.

The Citizen Lab scientists state that there is “engaging proof” that the Chinese federal government runs the Great Cannon which it most likely needed the authorization of top-level authorities.

One of the most reliable protection versus devices like Quantum and also the Great Cannon is the global file encryption of internet website traffic, baseding on the record.

The GreatFire as well as GitHub strikes targeted computer systems that had actually connected from Baidu, China’s biggest search engine. A discovery like this is most likely to harm the credibility of Baidu, which is properly China’s Google as well as lately stated overall profits of $7.9 billion for 2014.

The guide contrasts the Great Cannon from the NSA’s Quantum system, which is likewise efficient in dental implanting malware on devices all over the world. China has actually ended up being a lot more brazen from its Internet strikes given that Edward Snowden dripped the hacking capabilities of the NSA in 2013. “This precedent will certainly make it hard for Western federal governments to credibly whine regarding others using comparable strategies,” composed the analysts.

Chinese federal government authorities have actually continually refuted any sort of federal government participation in introducing international cyberattacks, yet this record verifies there are a lot more spying eyes around compared to simply those of NSA as well as its allies.
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