Raytheon Plans Microwave Warhead to Fry Air Defenses

Raytheon Plans Microwave Warhead to Fry Air Defenses | Danger Room | Wired.com: "It’s five years from now, and the next Moammar Gadhafi starts massacring his people. The United Nations approves another no-fly zone. The U.S. starts enforcing it with another round of missile attacks on the dictator’s air defenses. Only these don’t blow them off the face of the earth — they fry them instead.

That’s what Raytheon’s going to announce at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday. So-called directed energy warheads are the defense giant’s new initiative, reports David A. Fulgham at Ares, part of an effort to avoid civilian deaths while forcing the U.S. military’s way into places its adversaries don’t want it to operate."