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MAGO project begins at VNIIEF (Russian nuclear weapons lab)
Russian MTF program at weapons lab. Communist Party decree. Same dual-use pattern as US.
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.
AFRL Phillips Lab DEW Research
AFRL Phillips Laboratory researches Directed Energy Weapons, including high-energy lasers and sonic flocculators.
AFRL Directed Energy Weapons
U.S. AFRL Phillips Laboratory develops high-energy lasers and sonic flocculator weapons.
MARAUDER (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 → F
AFRL Consolidation
Phillips Laboratory is consolidated into the newly formed Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), inheriting advanced propulsion research mandates.
FRX-L experiment begins at LANL
FRX-L theta-pinch FRC experiment for magnetized target fusion.
AMSC Nanodot Development
AMSC announces nanotechnology-based 'nanodots' to enhance flux pinning in YBCO superconductors, leveraging research from AFRL and LANL.