Charged particle beam weapon

...However, in 1991, development and deployment was shelved in the Global Protection Against Limited Strike (GPALS), a worldwide defense initiative against limited missile attacks that succeeded SDI, and it is currently in the basic technology research stage. The former Soviet Union had been promoting the development of beam weapons since the 1960s, installing high-power generators and large particle accelerators, and Western intelligence agencies reported that they had prototyped a charged particle beam weapon in 1979, but the situation since then is unclear. The following two types of particle beam weapons were researched and developed by the United States in the SDI project. ...

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "charged particle beam weapons" is listed below.

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…しかし，1991年にSDIの後継計画となった限定的ミサイル攻撃に対する全世界防衛構想Global Protection Against Limited Strike(GPALS)で開発配備が見送られ，現在では基礎技術研究段階に置かれている。旧ソ連は，1960年代から大電力発生装置･大型粒子加速器を設置してビーム兵器開発を推進し，1979年には荷電粒子ビーム兵器の原型を試作したと西側情報機関が報じたが，その後の状況は明らかでない。アメリカがSDI計画で研究開発した粒子ビーム兵器は，次の2種類である。…

※「荷電粒子ビーム兵器」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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