3 January 2018 | ZeroGeoengineering.com | H. Kaushal and G. Kaddoum, “Applications of Lasers for Tactical Military Operations,” in IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 20736-20753, 2017, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2755678.

“Since weather plays a dominant role in military operations, therefore, any ability to control it can bring a significant change in the war scenario. 

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Lasers can be used as weather modifiers by using directed energy sources; they then provide enough energy to the localized region of the atmosphere to change its weather.”

Link to Applications of Lasers for Tactical Military Operations

Method and apparatus for altering a region in the earth’s atmosphere, ionosphere, and/or magnetosphere 

Link to US Patent 4686605