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Boeing Has Patented a Plasma ‘Force Field’ to Protect Against Shock Waves

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Circa 2015


As weapons get more sophisticated, researchers are trying to build defence systems that can keep pace, and what’s better than a force field?

Aerospace and defence giant Boeing has been awarded a patent to develop a force field-like system that could protect military vehicles from shockwaves following explosions from missiles or improvised explosive devices.

Boeing’s proposed system involves using a combination of lasers, electricity and microwaves to rapidly heat up the air between the vehicle and a blast. This heat creates a plasma shield that’s denser than the surrounding air and able to deflect or absorb the energy from the incoming shockwave.

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  1. Already simulated laser plasma CAN repel space storms!
    Laser plasma deflection or GPS destruction/global blackout by asteroid Apophis
    Next passage: 2021
    https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab13a5

    1921 Global telegraph blackout: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-studies-warn-of-cataclysmic-solar-superstorms

    Simulated laser plasma shield: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-scientists-laboratory-astrophysical.html
    : Princeton, RochesterΝΥ, Michigan, New Hampshire.

    30 super lasers ALREADY EXIST!
    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/high-power-laser-science-and-engineering/article/petawatt-class-lasers-worldwide/77B55882D24E72D26E233B691A8376D2

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