HPM Weapons Get Smaller, More Powerful

Credit: BAE SYSTEMS
Melding lasers and high-power microwaves is part of a new formula for creating more powerful, operationally flexible, directed-energy weapon designs. The shift in technology is considered comparable to the change from vacuum tubes to transistors in the 1960s. For example, today, a 10-gigawatt high...

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