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A kinetic weapon is one that damages the target by smashing into it. Blunt projectiles like rocks, arrows, bullets, etc. This is a non-kinetic weapon, because
by zacharycohn 3y ago
A kinetic weapon is one that damages the target by smashing into it. Blunt projectiles like rocks, arrows, bullets, etc.
This is a non-kinetic weapon, because it does not damage the target through kinetic force.
- hn8305823 3y ago> This is a non-kinetic weapon, because it does not damage the target through kinetic force. It is literally the kinetic energy of the photons and nothing else that is disabling the drones. The photon kinetic energy is transferred to electrons that either overheat components or destroy control electronics with excessive voltage (the article did not specify which).
- nostrademons 3y agoIntended audience: not physicists.
- zactato 3y agoUnnecessary pedantry. You know what the title meant.
- aidenn0 3y agoIt's the kinetic energy of a HEAT round that damages a tank too, but that's not classified as a KEW either, since a KEW is where the sole damage done is by the energy of a projectile (and a HEAT round it's the chemical energy in the round that produces most of the damage, after being converted to thermal and kinetic energy). I will propose that (generally speaking) a projectile has mass, which would exclude photons from the definition.
- spokeonawheel 3y agoso classification of non-kinetic weapon versus "non-kinectic light wave pulses" seems like grammatical confusion to me...