OUR HISTORY  
The Lightning Gun project started life in Adelaide, Australia in 2010 when CEO and Founder Adam Weigold first concieved of a Laser Powered EMP weapon and its significant potential for non-lethal military applications. Small scale experiments were performed using a 10 Watt class laser platform to prove the principle of the technology and validate its potential for missile countermeasure applications. Within 12 months these small scale experiments had proved highly encouraging and a new Directed Energy Weapons technology called Laser Guided and Powered EMP (LGPE) had been invented. In November 2011 Dr Weigold relocated operations to the San Francisco / Silicon Valley area in the US to proceed with the next stage of the Lightning Gun project - to scale LGPE technology to real world power levels. In December 2011 Lightning Gun Inc. was incorporated in the US and the first provisional patent application detailing the LGPE invention was filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office.

OUR FUTURE
Lightning Gun is now developing ways to generate funding to establish the research infrastructure required for large scale LGPE experiments. Extrapolating our small-scale experimental data with theoretical modelling indicates that a 1kW class laser platform will be required to create a large enough EMP pulse to effectively destroy a missiles electronic circuits with sufficient range and accuracy. This means the laser platform must be scaled up in output power by a factor of approximately 100. This in turn means the estimated cost of large scale experiments will increase by a factor of 20 to more than US$5 million over 2-3 years. We intend to raise this funding via a combination of (a) Crowdfunding Projects, (b) Sales of Science Fiction Publications and (c) US Government Research Grants. At Lightning Gun Inc. we want to turn science fiction into reality using an organic business model with no reliance on bankers or venture capitalists. In short, we want to do it our way!

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