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Russia Builds Microwave Weapon To Take Down Enemy Drones (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Russian government is backing a military research project to develop a powerful microwave-based weapon designed to take out unmanned enemy drones from up to half a mile away. The country's United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation (UIMC) created the microwave gun specifically to disrupt the electronics of enemy missiles. Using the ultra-high frequency waves the weapon can completely disable aircraft communications, resulting in loss of control. The destructive rays, which belong to a group of warfare technologies known as directed-energy weapons (DEW), will be emitted from surface-to-air Buk missile systems. Military analyst Alexander Perendzhiyev noted that the new weapon would be particularly effective against systems carrying microelectronic equipment. He also suggested that the impact of the radio-electronic waves could even be deadly to humans -- and referred to potential use against terrorists.
I own a "microwave weapon" too. Man, have you tried eating a burrito straight out of the microwave? That'll kill anything!
This Blighter/Evenlode combo is much more interesting: http://www.blighter.com/news/p...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Thanks to the incompetence of the US not being able to figure out the right group to back in Syria, you have drones ending up w/ ISIS, and now the Russians have to figure out a way to get them downed.
A nuke here or there on Raqqa, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, would fix things for good
Meanwhile, in Poland, they are developing a charcoal powered weapon. It's not as effective as Russia's microwave weapon, but the drones taste better afterwards.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
ah live in kintukky, kin i have one two?
Along with their tinfoil Overcoats.
Other than the fact that used microwaves have been used to do it on u-tup yahoo takes two days to steal my idea on pass-by boards, russia one to get my idea on drones, wheres my money on all the ideas i couldnt patent within 24 hours cos i had none. Should i start hiding DoT's and dangermemes in everything i say? .... SALESNURSE HUH ?
callcenter huh
Free speech was meant to be free for all... how can anyone grow up in a nanny state ?
So this is like a dumb version of what the US was showing off 15 years ago in its microwave active denial system?
"disable aircraft communications, resulting in loss of control"
Why would someone build a weapon that could so easily be countered? They wouldn't.
People do realize we build and send unmanned drones literally millions of miles away with pre-programmed instructions, right? How do the not expect that concept to extend to drones?
Programmed to fly to a specific coordinate, using GPS from take off and flight info to calculate current position if communications are disabled by reported weapon, drop payload, fly back to take off point. Laugh. Profit from war.
One problem I can think of off the top of my head is it should be easy to detect the source of the microwaves and take it out. Also I would think better shielding could protect against this.
This might work for non-military drones though.
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in soviet Russia we microwave you!
Russia sure likes shooting down planes.
Using "gun director" fire control radar on Navy ships as much as fifty years ago this was possible, the beams from those radars were able to kill birds in flight and easily fry electronics within a certain range. This is nothing new, at all.
a similar weapon built for use against humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sig ?
Code named: Head-Popper
Hopefully the Buk systems are safer than the ones I was involved with during the day. Some of those systems were potentially deadly to humans if you touched them the wrong way or stepped on where you shouldn't have during operation. Instant electrocution. It wouldn't have taken very long to the first ISIS drone attack on an armored vehicle with a re-purposed anti-tank warhead, though, so it must have been deemed necessary.
I foresee a big market in ablative popcorn armor.
the japanese worked on a microwave beam weapon in WW2, from gizmondo:
"According to documents confiscated by the U.S. military after the war, work on a Japanese death ray began as early as 1939 at laboratories in Noborito. To that end, the researchers developed a high-powered magnetron that could generate a beam of radiation. Physicist Sinitiro Tomonaga's team developed a magnetron measuring 8 inches (20 cm) in diameter with an output rated at 100kW. It's doubtful, however, that this technology could have worked like the death rays of science fiction. Calculations suggested that the beam, if properly focused, could have killed a rabbit over a distance of 1,000 yards, but only if the rabbit stayed perfectly still for at least 5 minutes."
unlike the united states who just overthrows countries in the quest for more oil/banking control
I've been told (not an expert) that such weapons would be excellent targets on the battle field.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Russias military is not the same as ours (the US). its more defensively modeled. even when you think of its ability for offense. its still a defend the motherland
sort of model.
ours is very offensively modeled, force projection anywhere in the world within 24 hours etc sort of model. ours is very networking independent, very high tech dependent. Russia knows, and has learned they can not out spend us; and if you read Sun Tzu winning is not just about how bas ass you are. there are other factors.
this is what Russia is building on; they are getting really good at Cyber, EW and all sorts of related stuff; even some of there ground to air and air to air stuff is getting good, think longer ranges. so if you have a networked enemy at your doorstep, on your "grounds" and you have the ability to knock out comms, jam radar all sorts of stuff there huge advantage starts to get nulled.
If it really is strictly a "ultra-high frequency" jammer then it's range is between 300MHz and 3GHz. What this means is that a 5GHz cellular modem would still be able to operate under these conditions. However, if it's as powerful as they claim, you should add a little aluminum foil to the bottom of your drone. :)
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Must be based on either a Samsung microwave... or the Note 7.
...when the Terminators want to take over.
Windows 2000 - from the guys who brought us edlin
How did Russia suddenly become enemy #1? The build up propaganda is incredible. They hacked the DNC? Lets stop this war that has been laid out in advanced. PLEASE REMEMBER: US, EU, and Russian military corporations think human life is expendable, this is all marketing.
They can say whatever they want, and all the idiot press will believe it. In fact, it's all a bunch of bullshit and countless competent intelligence agencies know that. Putin wants to push everyone around, but he's out of money. International businesses and world leaders don't care what color your judo belt is.
Show the money, bitch.
‘With its effective range apparently not exceeding one kilometre, this weapon may be used against UAVs flying right above the battlefield,’ said Korotchenko.
That doesn't sound very far. By flying at 3500 feet, it can't hit a UAV even if it is directly overhead.
Effective to half a mile -- so less than 2641 feet... Hmmm. So it would at best only be effective against drones flying several miles below the cruising altitude of standard U.S. drones. With the right optics, my Winchester Model 94 would probably end up with similar performance to the Russian system.
Incidentally the United States is working on a missile-borne microwave weapon which would be very useful for hitting Surface to Air missile sites like the ones Russia relies on for power projection, to augment their lower-tech air force (as they've done with the recent S-400 deployment in Syria.) This microwave weapon, mounted on the small tracked vehicles used by the Buk system would be a useful point-defense weapon against cruise missiles, if the power output was high enough, and the weapon was slow enough. If its only useful against drones, then the power output is lower or the missiles are too hardened for what it can pump out - in which case you should see it as a high-power, aimable jamming system to counter attacking aircraft, with the ability to fry drones a nice secondary feature.
A nice little microcosm of the ongoing arms race. Pay attention; the toys they come up with now we'll be finding commercial uses for in twenty years.