New Chinese Microwave Weapon Can Short Out IEDs and Tanks

[haidian]

CHINA'S NEW MICROWAVE WEAPON CAN DISABLE MISSILES AND PARALYZE TANKS
AN ELECTRONICS-KILLING RAY HAS A VARIETY OF USES IN WAR.

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer 18 hours ago

For over 6 years, Huang Wenhua and his team at the Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology in Xi'an have been working on a potent microwave weapon. This one, which recently won China's National Science and Technology Progress Award, is small enough to fit on a lab work bench, making it theoretically portable enough for land vehicles and aircraft.

Said another way: it's small enough to be convenient, but powerful enough to totally down enemy electronics. A microwave weapon like this could even be fitted to a missile (like the U.S. CHAMP electronic warfare missile) or drone.

Generally, microwave weapons shut down electronic systems (even those with traditional shielding against EMP) by bombarding the target with energy pulses between 300 and 300,000 megahertz. This amount of directed energy interferes with and overloads electronic circuits, causing them to shut down. The higher the energy produced by the system, the greater the disruption (and even physical damage for some very high-powered microwave weapons) of the targeted electronic systems like engines and communications systems.

China can find a wide variety of uses for an electronics killing ray. Defensively, microwave weapons could be part of electronic warfare booby traps, ambushing and disabling enemy vehicles and robots. At close ranges, it can be mounted on vehicles, warships, and even aircraft, to disable and distract missiles, small UAVs and even the personal and vehicular electronics of hostile forces.

But the real combat potential of the microwave weapon comes in offense. Carried in by a stealthy drone or cruise missile, it would be able to disable sophisticated enemy defenses like SAM and anti-ship missile batteries; fry enemy radars, communications, and control systems; paralyze tank battalions; and even neutralize other EW platforms.
http://www.popsci.com/china-microwave-weapon-electronic-warfare

 

[Michael Corleone]

i wonder how much crew damage it will cause... fatalities possibly?

 

[sarosh yakoob mehdi]

After six years of research and coming up with an offensive weapon. Commendable. But really interesting to know it's multidimensional usage. Still in awe. I am reading it again n again. Just Wow

 

[WaLeEdK2]

Has it been tested yet?

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

I...I...wa...wan...want 1

........
Respect to Chinese Engineering and people

 

[Ultimate Weapon]

Again China price itself to be technologically strong enough to counter Uncle Sam.

It will definitely added in wish list of ours.

 

[52051]

CHINA'S NEW MICROWAVE WEAPON CAN DISABLE MISSILES AND PARALYZE TANKS
AN ELECTRONICS-KILLING RAY HAS A VARIETY OF USES IN WAR.

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer 18 hours ago

For over 6 years, Huang Wenhua and his team at the Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology in Xi'an have been working on a potent microwave weapon. This one, which recently won China's National Science and Technology Progress Award, is small enough to fit on a lab work bench, making it theoretically portable enough for land vehicles and aircraft.

Said another way: it's small enough to be convenient, but powerful enough to totally down enemy electronics. A microwave weapon like this could even be fitted to a missile (like the U.S. CHAMP electronic warfare missile) or drone.

Generally, microwave weapons shut down electronic systems (even those with traditional shielding against EMP) by bombarding the target with energy pulses between 300 and 300,000 megahertz. This amount of directed energy interferes with and overloads electronic circuits, causing them to shut down. The higher the energy produced by the system, the greater the disruption (and even physical damage for some very high-powered microwave weapons) of the targeted electronic systems like engines and communications systems.

China can find a wide variety of uses for an electronics killing ray. Defensively, microwave weapons could be part of electronic warfare booby traps, ambushing and disabling enemy vehicles and robots. At close ranges, it can be mounted on vehicles, warships, and even aircraft, to disable and distract missiles, small UAVs and even the personal and vehicular electronics of hostile forces.

But the real combat potential of the microwave weapon comes in offense. Carried in by a stealthy drone or cruise missile, it would be able to disable sophisticated enemy defenses like SAM and anti-ship missile batteries; fry enemy radars, communications, and control systems; paralyze tank battalions; and even neutralize other EW platforms.
http://www.popsci.com/china-microwave-weapon-electronic-warfare

The popsci article make no sense.

The microwave weapon which win first class state prize is developed by a nuclear research institue, and it is designed for hard kill of missiles, not soft-kill, not mount on drones or vehicles, it is more of a strategic weapon, working like laser weapon but being more robust than laser at heating up and burning hardened warheads despite of whatever whether conditions.

 

[Majet Raha]

CHINA'S NEW MICROWAVE WEAPON CAN DISABLE MISSILES AND PARALYZE TANKS
AN ELECTRONICS-KILLING RAY HAS A VARIETY OF USES IN WAR.

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer 18 hours ago

For over 6 years, Huang Wenhua and his team at the Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology in Xi'an have been working on a potent microwave weapon. This one, which recently won China's National Science and Technology Progress Award, is small enough to fit on a lab work bench, making it theoretically portable enough for land vehicles and aircraft.

Said another way: it's small enough to be convenient, but powerful enough to totally down enemy electronics. A microwave weapon like this could even be fitted to a missile (like the U.S. CHAMP electronic warfare missile) or drone.

Generally, microwave weapons shut down electronic systems (even those with traditional shielding against EMP) by bombarding the target with energy pulses between 300 and 300,000 megahertz. This amount of directed energy interferes with and overloads electronic circuits, causing them to shut down. The higher the energy produced by the system, the greater the disruption (and even physical damage for some very high-powered microwave weapons) of the targeted electronic systems like engines and communications systems.

China can find a wide variety of uses for an electronics killing ray. Defensively, microwave weapons could be part of electronic warfare booby traps, ambushing and disabling enemy vehicles and robots. At close ranges, it can be mounted on vehicles, warships, and even aircraft, to disable and distract missiles, small UAVs and even the personal and vehicular electronics of hostile forces.

But the real combat potential of the microwave weapon comes in offense. Carried in by a stealthy drone or cruise missile, it would be able to disable sophisticated enemy defenses like SAM and anti-ship missile batteries; fry enemy radars, communications, and control systems; paralyze tank battalions; and even neutralize other EW platforms.
http://www.popsci.com/china-microwave-weapon-electronic-warfare

@Abingdonboy @Nilgiri @Hindustani78 is this something comparable to KALI?

 

[Nilgiri]

@Abingdonboy @Nilgiri @Hindustani78 is this something comparable to KALI?

Something like that probably.

The real issue for these systems are their physical size.

 

[somebozo]

Can it disable speed cameras?

 

[帅的一匹]

I think we will have it on our destroyer.

 

[lcloo]

Let's have some fun. Place a stainless steel spoon and a chicken egg in a microwave oven and turn to High on the power switch.

You just created sparkling fireworks and smashing exploding egg with a extremely low power microwave "weapon" LOL.

Imaging high power microwave weapon "shine" directly on human face!

 

[onebyone]

The U.S. has had a similar weapon for years. It's still worrying, though.


China has unveiled a new directed energy weapon, one that poses a serious threat to high-tech U.S. military electronics. According to Popular Science the weapon, which resembles existing American arms, can "disable missiles and paralyze tanks".

The unnamed weapon system has been in development for the past six years at the Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology in Xi'an, China. According to Popular Science, the weapon is "small enough to fit on a lab bench" and is ready to be weaponized. A cruise missile, such as the ones pictured above, is one deployment option.


Microwave weapons work by unleashing a torrent of microwave radiation that can disable or even destroy integrated circuits. That means everything from iPhones to cars is vulnerable. It also means enemy weapons, communications systems, and sensors are feasible targets.

A microwave weapon could be used both offensively and defensively on the battlefield. It could protect friendly forces from enemy aircraft, drones, and missiles by zapping them with waves of energy that could cause them to fall out of the sky. Alternately it could be placed on a cruise missile, like the Boeing CHAMP concept, and sent to fry targets in distant locations.

One problem with microwave weapons is that they're indiscriminate. While military planners can take pains to avoid civilian areas, high-powered microwave radiation will affect both military and civilian electronics in the affected area. While it's not the same as collateral damage from a high explosive bomb, the possibility of a microwave weapon affecting potentially life-saving civilian assets—such as a power grid or hospital electronics—is a real one.

Source: Popular Science

http://www.popularmechanics.com/mil...hinese-microwave-weapon-short-out-ieds-tanks/

 

[Suff Shikan]

http://tribune.com.pk/story/369592/muzaffargarh-ranges-kayani-witnesses-jamming-of-tanks/

 

[cirr]

The article is neither here nor there.

The authors need to dig deeper to get a firmer grip on what Huang's work in the past 20+ years have entailed and produced.