AESA as a weapon, not a sensor
Mike said:
"Non-kinetic attack" is another name for Electronic Attack (EA). This
typically means jamming (e.g. radar jamming, referred to in the ancient
days of history as ECM), but there are other things you can do with it-
it does not involve shooting down a plane with a beam of microwaves, or
a laser, or anything like that.
Directed energy, particle beam weapons, destructive lasers, etc. all
fall under EA as does electronic disruptive techniques such as jamming.
Whether or not any capabilities of an EA destructive nature are
operational has not been publicly acknowledged.
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