I always thought the issue here is the difficulty getting radio waves through plasma for these weapons. So once the plasma is turned on, it's radio silence/the device is on it's own. There would be no GPS getting through, so if the trajectory is off you can't fix it. Has there been any success in getting EM through plasma?
Yes:
Sha, Y. X., Zhang, H. L., Guo, X. Y., & Xia, M. Y. (2019). Analyses of electromagnetic properties of a hypersonic object with plasma sheath. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 67(4), 2470-2481.
So if they are moving this idea forward, it suggests they've succeeded at solving plasma blindness I would assume. What does "non-kinetic components' survival" mean?
