Will Directed Energy Weapons be the Future?

https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid What is faster than the fastest hypersonic missile?, well a beam of light, microwaves or subatomic particles but they are impossibly small and have almost no mass compared to a projectile. However, if you have enough energy you can make a weapon that works at the speed of light and in theory can shoot down anything projectile weapon we have now. So why don't we have phasers like in Star Trek?, in this video we look at Directed Energy Weapons and what they can do now and in the future. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Written, Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Google, US Navy, Marine Forces Reserve, IPG Photonics, Engineerguy Federico Dios, MicrowaveMeShow, PyroGadgets, laserpointersafety.com A big thank you also goes to all our Patreons :-) Alan Johns Allan Versaevel Alok G Singh Andrew SMITH Big Bubbaloola Brian Kelly Cameron Elliot Carl Soderstrom Cash Garman ChasingSol Collin Copfer Damien Pasche Daniele Noacco Dylan Leblanc Gio Pagliari Henning Bitsch Henri Saussure Janne Kurikka Johan Rombaut john edwards Jonathan Merage Jonathan Travers Juerg Hurni Kai Spuhler Kedar Deshpande Kevin Hinnen Laurent Steck Lorne Diebel László Antal Marco Mangen Peter Barber Prashanth Ruthala Pyloric Sami Tirkkonen SHAMIR Sk1er steel stefan hufenbach Steve J - LakeCountySpacePort Vincent Walt Dennig Music from the Youtube library Write hear right now by PC III Write hear right now by PC III is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) A dark blue arc by PC III A dark blue arc by PC III is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) How can you stop a nuclear missile by Curious Droid Destiny Day by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ I Can't Remmber I Can't Recall by The 129ers Heaven and Hell by Jeremy Blake Nanoflares by Curious Droid