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A weapon that emits a highly focused beam of energy.  5, fiche 1, Anglais, - directed%2Denergy%20weapon

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[Lasers, microwaves] and particle beams are examples of directed energy.  5, fiche 1, Anglais, - directed%2Denergy%20weapon

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directed-energy weapon; DEW: designations and definition officially approved by the Joint Terminology Panel; designations officially approved by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.  6, fiche 1, Anglais, - directed%2Denergy%20weapon

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directed energy weapon; DEW: designations standardized by NATO.  6, fiche 1, Anglais, - directed%2Denergy%20weapon

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Arme qui émet un faisceau d'énergie très focalisé.  3, fiche 1, Français, - arme%20%C3%A0%20%C3%A9nergie%20dirig%C3%A9e

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Les rayons laser, les faisceaux de microondes et les faisceaux de particules sont des exemples d'énergie dirigée.  3, fiche 1, Français, - arme%20%C3%A0%20%C3%A9nergie%20dirig%C3%A9e

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arme à énergie dirigée; AED : désignations et définition uniformisées par le Groupe d'experts en terminologie interarmées; désignations uniformisées par le ministère de la Défense nationale et les Forces canadiennes.  4, fiche 1, Français, - arme%20%C3%A0%20%C3%A9nergie%20dirig%C3%A9e

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arme à énergie dirigée; AED : désignations normalisées par l'OTAN.  4, fiche 1, Français, - arme%20%C3%A0%20%C3%A9nergie%20dirig%C3%A9e

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There are two broad types of particle-beam weapons : the charged-particle beam weapon and the neutral-particle beam weapon. The charged-particle variety would be developed for use within the atmosphere(endoatmospheric) and has a set of technological characteristics that are entirely different from the neutral particle beam weapon that would be used in space(exoatmospheric).  3, fiche 2, Anglais, - neutral%20particle%20beam%20weapon

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laser beam weapon; LBW : term and abbreviation extracted from the "Disarmament and Peace Keeping" glossary with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.  3, fiche 3, Anglais, - laser%20beam%20weapon

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arme à faisceau laser : terme(s) tiré(s) du lexique «Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.  2, fiche 3, Français, - arme%20%C3%A0%20faisceau%20laser

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Laser weapons generate intense beams of light that can focus on a target a considerable distance away.  4, fiche 4, Anglais, - laser%20weapon

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A variety of antisatellite weapons could destroy, blind or jam enemy satellites. ... Lasers might work best, because by blinding rather than destroying satellites, they would not fill lower Earth orbits with debris that other spacecraft might run into.  5, fiche 4, Anglais, - laser%20weapon

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Essential elements of a laser weapon are the high-energy laser-producing system and the beam control system which aims the laser beam at the target and focuses the laser on it.  6, fiche 4, Anglais, - laser%20weapon

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laser weapon; LW: designations standardized by NATO.  7, fiche 4, Anglais, - laser%20weapon

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Les applications militaires du laser à la neutralisation et à la destruction sont souvent évoquées sous la désignation «arme laser».  4, fiche 4, Français, - arme%20laser

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En raison de leur orbite prévisible, les satellites seraient particulièrement exposés aux attaques par laser qui permettraient d'aveugler les capteurs, de saturer l'équipement électronique, d'entraîner des dégâts thermiques ou physiques, ou de surchauffer des composants particuliers (par exemple, la partie optique sensible de la charge utile ou les détecteurs d'attitude).  3, fiche 4, Français, - arme%20laser

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arme laser; LW : désignations normalisées par l'OTAN.  5, fiche 4, Français, - arme%20laser

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There are two broad types of particle-beam weapons : the charged-particle beam weapon and the neutral-particle beam weapon. The charged-particle variety would be developed for use within the atmosphere(endoatmospheric) and has a set of technological characteristics that are entirely different from the neutral-particle beam weapon that would be used in space(exoatmospheric).  3, fiche 5, Anglais, - charged%20particle%20beam%20weapon

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The [charged particle beams (CPBs)] may consist of either electrons or protons which are brought up to near the velocity of light by more or less standard accelerator techniques.  4, fiche 5, Anglais, - charged%20particle%20beam%20weapon

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charged particle beam weapon; CPBW : designations standardized by NATO.  5, fiche 5, Anglais, - charged%20particle%20beam%20weapon

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arme à faisceau de particules chargées; CPBW : désignations normalisées par l'OTAN.  3, fiche 5, Français, - arme%20%C3%A0%20faisceau%20de%20particules%20charg%C3%A9es

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A relay mirror in orbit around the Earth provides aiming and tracking for the beam weapon.  2, fiche 6, Anglais, - relay%20mirror

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A system which produces a high energy, small diameter beam of either neutral atoms or charged ions to disable the target.  4, fiche 7, Anglais, - particle%20beam%20weapon

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The characteristic that distinguishes the particle-beam weapon from other directed energy weapons is the form of energy it propagates. While there are several operating concepts for particle-beam weapons, all such devices generate their destructive power by accelerating sufficient quantities of subatomic particles or atoms to velocities near the speed of light and focusing these particles into a very high-energy beam. The total energy within the beam is the aggregate energy of the rapidly moving particles, each particle having kinetic energy due to its own mass and motion.  5, fiche 7, Anglais, - particle%20beam%20weapon

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particle-beam weapon; PBW : term and abbreviation extracted from the "Disarmament and Peace Keeping" glossary with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.  6, fiche 7, Anglais, - particle%20beam%20weapon

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Arme constituée d'une chaîne technologique comprenant une alimentation électrique de puissance, une source intense d'ions ou d'électrons et un accélérateur performant muni d'un système de focalisation du faisceau.  4, fiche 7, Français, - arme%20%C3%A0%20faisceaux%20de%20particules

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arme à faisceaux de particules : terme tiré du lexique «Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.  5, fiche 7, Français, - arme%20%C3%A0%20faisceaux%20de%20particules

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There are three key components of a hypothetical particle beam weapon system. First, there is the source of the beam-the beam generator-consisting of a particle accelerator and its associated supply of electrical power, energy storage, and conditioning. Second, there is a beam control subsystem to aim the beam at the target and determine that the beam has hit. Last, the particle beam weapon must have a fire control subsystem which acquires all the targets that need to be engaged, selects the one to engage, and tells the beam control subsystem where to look to find it.  2, fiche 8, Anglais, - particle%20beam%20weapon%20system

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MILES is a system the Army uses for wargames. You mount a small box, the transmitter, on the end of the barrel of your weapon, and wear a harness that has several straps on the front and back with infrared receptors on them. You also have a key that is normally in the transmitter to enable it. The transmitter has a microphone in it, and whenever a shot is fired, the sound causes it to fire a coded IR laser beam. The sensors on the harness are wired to a box on the back which detects when you have been hit. If you are, a beeper starts sounding loudly. To turn it off you have to take the key out of the transmitter, thus disabling it, and put it in a switch in the harness. Then you are "dead", and have to wait for an observer to come around with a special key that can reset the harness. They can also use the God gun, which is so called because it can fire pulses that will "kill" you like the other transmitters, but it can also fire pulses that reset your harness(bring you back to life...)  1, fiche 9, Anglais, - God%20gun

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A three-dimensional weapon control RESR radar which incorporates a rotating electronic scanning agile beam antenna with full scan capability, multimode transmitter/receiver, real-time programmable signal processor, tactical displays, and a digital computer.  2, fiche 10, Anglais, - flexible%20adaptive%20radar

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proton beams, a specialty of Soviet beam weapon research, require an accelerated electron beam as a "seed", and are then accelerated in their own right.  2, fiche 11, Anglais, - proton%20beam

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