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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!
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
Buddy, you okay?
For Russia these days, "force projection" literally does mean the Black Sea and Syria.
And in the west democracy mean to let the globalist elite decide your destiny. .. or did the Europeans and Swedes actually wanted it this way? Really? Have anyone asked?
I dunno. The Russian have a different approach to these things than we do. If Russian engineering firms were baseball teams, they'd be small ball players and our guys would be sluggers. We tend to swing to swing for the fences and they concentrate on getting base hits.
If the Russians think they're on to something they tend to keep tinkering with it, making it incrementally better. The question isn't whether something is necessarily the most impressive thing in the world now, but whether it is practical and useful now.
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does indeed make them a threat to world peace.
You make it sound like "World Peace" is something we've already achieved.
It's not.... if there is no war now, there will be one soon; ISIS and various players all over the world have aligned everything to make sure of that.
$98 billion annually is not very much to spend on military at all. Hell, the US spends more than $600 billion.
Also, if you don't have an advanced highly-thorough military force when war does break out, then being caught unprepared has a high
probability of meaning you become an occupied or subservient country.
GPS and Radar are both types of communications. If your drone relies on only GPS and/or Radar for navigation, then sending an EMP down your antenna will destroy your GPS radio, your Radar transceiver, and your drone won't be able to find the current position, let-alone navigate to takeoff location.
Also, microwave won't just take out radio receivers and transmitters..... it will also blow out at least any integrated circuits attached to electromagnetic sensors without extreme protections including completely separate circuits and optical isolation (So you blow up the opto-isolators instead), even if the electronics themselves are shielded.
Sensors such as distance/location measurement by definition cannot be shielded, since you need them unshielded to be able to reach the outside world and sense things.
I foresee a big market in ablative popcorn armor.
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.