Phillips Laboratory
ID: phillips-laboratory
Summary
USAF laboratory at Kirtland AFB, successor to Air Force Weapons Laboratory (AFWL). Managed Nachamkin plasmoid contract. Later merged into AFRL.
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MARAUDER program begins — AFRL fires compact toroid plasmoids as weapons
Shiva Star facility. 100 billion g acceleration. Explicitly NOT fusion. Same facility as FRCHX. The critical link.
defense-programsAFRL Phillips Lab DEW Research
AFRL Phillips Laboratory researches Directed Energy Weapons, including high-energy lasers and sonic flocculators.
fusion-physicsAFRL Directed Energy Weapons
U.S. AFRL Phillips Laboratory develops high-energy lasers and sonic flocculator weapons.
defense-programsMARAUDER (August 1993): USAF compact toroid weapon, 100 billion g acceleration, Shiva Star, went dark mid-1990s
USAF Phillips Lab compact toroid weapon. 100 billion g acceleration. 9.5 MJ Shiva Star. 'Not a fusion program' — weapons. Physics identical to FRC. Went dark mid-1990s. Lineage: SHIVA I → MARAUDER → FRCHX.
uap-researchLLNL and Air Force Phillips Laboratory Collaboration
LLNL collaborates with the Air Force Phillips Laboratory on the MARAUDER device for accelerator studies and CT stagnation experiments at higher energy.
defense-programsAFRL Consolidation
Phillips Laboratory is consolidated into the newly formed Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), inheriting advanced propulsion research mandates.
historical-contextNachamkin Force-Free Plasmoid Model
Jack Nachamkin (University of Dayton Research Institute) develops a 'heretofore unexplored solution of Maxwell's equations' for self-stable plasma orbs. Resonant sizes exist where the plasmoid does not exchange energy with surroundings. Project manager: Dr. Franklin B. Mead, Jr. Contract F04611-88-C-0020. Same year as Seward's ESTS patent.
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