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.

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Re:Syrian drones

[unixisc]

I said countries in the neighborhood, not neighboring countries. Israel is out of the question, since the Syrians have nothing in common w/ Israel, and allowing them in would be like allowing the Palis in, and subjecting the Israelis to daily terror attacks from even more Arab Muslims. Iran has been a backer of Syria, and could take in Alawite refugees, should it become necessary. Jordan is stretched, so Saudi Arabia can take in refugees into the northern part of their country, which is no different from Syria. Lebanon just got emptied of Syrian troops - doesn't need that again.

While there may be Americans who follow Islam, that's the problem. Since 2001, there has been hundreds of incidents involving Muslims in various cities, and those were not coincidental: in all of them, the Muslims either shouted allahu Akbar, or were later found to be inspired by Islam. Normally, I believe in religious freedom as guaranteed by the First Amendment. But guess what - Islam doesn't - and therein lies the rub. Islam is about asserting its supremacy over all of mankind, and everybody must be made to either convert/subjugated/fought & killed. It's impossible for any Muslim to be loyal to the US constitution: those who might be would be MINOs - Muslims in Name Only.

Who are the Muslims in America? Two groups - one is Muslim immigrants from other countries, and other is Americans who've converted to Islam. The first group, we've seen: we have those Somalis who leave MN to go join al Shadab. We have others who try to go to Syria via Turkey to join ISIS, or to Pakistan to join al Qaeda. We have activists in Dearbornistan busy terrorizing people who speak out against them, including non Muslim refugees from the Middle East. Then there are people like Ahmed Rahimi, or Syed Farook, or Omar Mateen.... the list goes on and on and on. And what's the best that Muslims can say about them? "They were not Muslim". Yeah, right, and Adolf Eichmann was not a Nazi.

Then there is Americans who've converted to Islam. You have those beauties like John Walker Lind, Adam Gadahn, Jose Padilla, and a few more. Most often, these are convicts in US jails, where the jail authorities are stupid enough to allow Muslim imams to go there and convert inmates. Why is this important? B'cos a major principle in Islam - that any crime is justified if committed in the name of Islam - is sold to them, and suddenly, these convicts have a new justification in whatever they do if they do it in the name of Islam. And that creates another set of issues. In fact, I'm even more scared of converts to Islam than of people who were just born into it. In case of the latter, it was just an accident of birth, and they could grow up to be MINOs. But people who convert to it buy into the principles of dawa and jihad, and all that it entails

Re:years behind

[smooth wombat]

I have yet to see anyone charged over that either.

Because the U.S. made a full and complete investigation, then fully admitted its mistake to the world and paid reparations to the families of those onboard.

Whereas Russia has perpetually insisted it had nothing to do with shooting down a passenger jet even though the BUK system was tracked coming into Ukraine from Russia then promptly returned to Russia missing one of its missile systems.

Further, the world has the recorded phone calls made by the Russians and their terrorist proxies gleefully announcing the shoot down before they realized it was a passenger jet, not to mention the various social media postings proclaiming the shoot down.

Then, when the Russians realized they had shot down a civilian airliner, they promptly closed off the crime scene and rooted through the personal belongings of those they killed and denied access to the site, thereby contaminating the crime scene.

As the investigation proceeded, Russia did everything in its power to deny responsibility for the murders of the civilians, tossing out bogus claim after bogus claim, including photoshopped pictures trying to claim a jet shot down the airliner, and thwarted every attempt to collect data by not cooperating in the least.

Unfortunately for Russia, civilians who were interviewed stated unequivocally the location of where the Buk missile was launched from and investigators found the scorch marks on the ground which were clearly in an area occupied by the terrorists and their Russian backers.

See the difference?