Accelerated Wave Explosion (AWE)
Price
$22,000,000 / unit
The Accelerated Wave Explosion doesn't use conventional explosive chemistry. Instead, it vibrates the individual atoms of a target area at resonant frequency, inducing a rapid, catastrophic energy release from the inside out. No shell casing. No shrapnel. Just physics, applied with extreme prejudice.
Technical Specifications
Mechanism
Atomic resonance vibration → explosive energy release
Delivery
Directed-wave emitter; adjustable radius
Collateral Profile
Clean (no fragmentation byproduct)
Demonstration
U.S. Armed Forces, Arizona, 2008
Creator
Tony Stark
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