<HTML>Nach offiziellen Regierungsangaben setzt das Pentagon bei der Umwandlung des amerikanischen Militärs auf Waffen mit gerichteter Energie - wie sie auch von Mikrowellen-Waffen - realisiert werden:
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"The director of the Defense Department's Office of Force Transformation sees a future for energy weapons.
At a Feb. 26 hearing of the House Armed Service Committee's Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee, retired Navy Vice Adm. Arthur Cebrowski advocated the establishment of a road map to investigate the possibilities of developing directed energy weapons. Such weapons send bursts in the form of heat, electricity, sound and other energies, instead of projectiles such as bullets or shells.
Directed energy weapons have the potential to be more precise than projectile weapons, and can offer nonlethal capabilities that projectile ones don't.
Cebrowski said that directed energy weapons could "dramatically change the character of war," and would offer not just one order of magnitude change, but several orders."</HTML>
