Subj: IMAGES: Re: Energy Weapons
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Date: 2/15/00 3:10:44 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Military Microwave, Plasma,
And Pulsed Power Devices
At Kirtland AFB
From Kevin
http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/asat/hertf.htm
10-23-98
High Energy Research and Technology Facility (HERTF)
The High Energy Research and Technology Facility (HERTF) at Kirtland Air
Force Base, New Mexico, is a premier Phillips Laboratory capability for research,
development and transition of advanced weapons technologies.
This $9 million facility provides a unique capability for the development
of high-power microwaves, high-energy advanced pulsed power (including explosive
devices), and very- high-energy plasmas. It also provides a research environment
for exploring a variety of related technologies. The facility's remote location
in the Manzano Mountains is coupled with aunique construction, which is designed
to withstand blasts and intense radiation from a variety of sources, including
high-energy microwaves and x-rays.
HERTF is located in a canyon in the Manzano Mountains in the southeast portion
of Kirtland. The facility has a four-story-high bay laboratory, 80 feet by
150 feet, with concrete roofand walls four feet thick for blast and radiation
shielding. The high bay includes two bridge cranes, cable trays, a 12-foot-deep
pit for intense radiation source experiments, and access tunnels to an explosive
firing areanearthe highbay. Up to 1000 pounds of high explosives can be detonated
in this area to produce hundreds of megajoules of electrical energy needed
for these advanced experiments. The facility also contains offices and smaller
laboratories where advanced weapons technology experiments and demonstrations
can be conducted safely and securely.
HERTF was designed to scale high-power microwave and high-energy plasma concepts
that were pursued for many years in the Laboratory's basic research and
exploratory development efforts. It was difficult to advance these concepts
with the limited facilities available before HERTF was completed. With this
facility, technologies can be advanced to a weapons level. Also, advanced
weapons environments can be created, allowing scientists to assess the potential
threat of these weapons to United States military systems.
Although the Laboratory's high-power microwave technology is considerably
advanced, HERTF is essential in conducting many of the critical experiments
still needed to assess the feasibility of the technology for operational
systems.
Compact, high-energy pulsed power is an enabling technology for many advanced
weapon concepts and effects simulation devices. HERTF is designed to play
a major role in the Phillips Laboratory' s development of "next generation"
high-energy pulsed power devices. Research and development includes the
generation and conditioning of large amounts of electrical energy needed
for advanced weapon technologies.
High-energy plasma work at HERTF allows a dramatic power increase for compact
toroid experiments compared to other Phillips Laboratory facilities, such
as a 10-megajoule capacitor bank. These high-energy plasmas provide the intense
radiation environment needed to simulate threat-level nuclear-weapon effects
in space. These plasmas are used to support research on fusion energy, and
they permit Laboratory scientists to assess potential space-weapon concepts.
SOURCES
* High Energy Research and Technology Facility (HERTF)
* WEAPONS -- DEW-High Power Microwave (HPM)
* AF2025 v3c14-3b | Space Operations: Through The Looking Glass (Ch 3b)
* 0603605F Advanced Weapons Technology
* SENSORS -- RF Components
* Statement of Lieutenant General Robert L. Schweitzer, U.S. Army (Retired)
* 29 0603605F Advanced Weapons Technology - FY98 USAF Military Space RDDS
* DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY AREA PLAN -- WEAPONS
* DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY AREA PLAN -- SENSORS, ELECTRONICS, AND BATTLESPACE
ENVIRONMENT