BAE Systems looks to alter atmosphere to protect forces | IHS Jane's 360

The future battlespace is often depicted as being filed with directed energy weapons as well as capabilities to control the EM spectrum. The ability to sense and detect over long distances, well beyond what is considered today to be stand-off ranges, will be vital for survivability.

Concepts such as LDAL are still decades away from becoming a single system capable of a conducting a range of actions to manipulate the atmosphere. However, there are come applications such as amplifying a radar echo and countering directed energy weapons that might be achievable in a 20-30-year timescale, the company noted.