"Boeing Patents Futuristic Force Field
..."[The system] may include a sensor for detecting a source of the shockwave and generating a detection signal, an arc generator in communication with the sensor and configured to receive the detection signal therefrom, and in response thereto create an electromagnetic arc to heat a selected region of the first fluid medium rapidly to create the second, transient medium, different from the first medium, interposed between the shockwave and the protected region such that the shockwave contacts the second, transient medium," the patent sort of explains.
Just how this arc force-field will work is left pretty open, but Boeing has submitted a few ideas, including using at least one of the following - "high intensity laser pulses, pellets forming a conductive ion trail, sacrificial conductors, projectiles trailing electrical wires or magnetic induction".
If the first medium is, as it probably would be, the air, the idea is that the arc generator would create a second medium different in density, temperature and composition, in this case by superheating the air, which could then reflect, refract, absorb or deflect at least part of the damaging shockwave."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bridaineparnell/2015/03/25/boeing-patents-futuristic-force-field/
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