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Russia's Rostech Corporation is to unveil a super-high frequency weapon capable of taking down all kinds of drones, missiles and other high precision weapons. The presentation will be made at the Army-2015 military expo. The Mosow Radio Engineering Institute has developed a super-high frequency (SHF) "cannon." It's designed to knock out aircraft, drones, guided missiles and any airborne high precision weapons using electronics. The cannon creates an air-exclusion zone within a reported radius of over 10 kilometers around the defended object or installation, though the system's exact characteristics are classified.
"This mobile microwave irradiation complex performs off-frequency rejection of electronics aboard low-altitude aerial targets and warheads of high precision weapons," a source in Rostech Corporation told TASS, adding this system puts close range air defenses on a whole new level. "In terms of performance capabilities, the complex has no competitors in the world," the source said. All the equipment is mounted on a tracked Buk missile air defense transportation platform.
http://rt.com/news/267187-shf-cannon-russia-drones/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
NOTE: I wandered around the net for several minutes, looking for alternative news sources on this cannon. I found exactly three other sources, all of which quote RT. Propaganda? Vaporware? You'll have to decide for yourself.
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 16 2015, @03:17AM
The Mosow Radio Engineering Institute has developed a super-high frequency (SHF) "cannon."
Yeah, that's what they want you to think! SHF? Shit Hits Fan Cannon? Sounds more like it! (And were is the Mosow Radio Eng. Inst. located, anyway?)
The cannon creates an air-exclusion zone within a reported radius of over 10 kilometers
Wow, that is a lot of BS if it manages to exclude not only light and understanding, but even air for ten clicks all around. If you are being defended, it is probably a good idea to bring your own. Air, that is. Peter Sloterdijk wrote a book called "Terror from Air" where he renames the gas-warfare of WWI as "atmoterrorism", when you turn the ecosystem itself into the means of weapon delivery, or into the weapon itself. Sounds like this could be a case in point.
[Before everyone jumps on it, yes, this is a literally intentional misreading of "air-exclusion".]
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday June 16 2015, @03:33AM
I prefer Druidia® Air™! Druidia® Air™: The freshest air in a can!™
(Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Tuesday June 16 2015, @07:32AM
So, that's what makes those compressed air canisters so damned expensive.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday June 16 2015, @05:32AM
"Air-exclusion zone" : Boy, I sure misinterpreted that one!
I literally parsed it as atmospheric phenomena - just like you said. That was tripping off my BS detector big-time.
Your post made everything snap back in place.
Thanks.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 16 2015, @06:28AM
Your post made everything snap back in place.
FAIR WARNIng!!! The place you snap back to may not be the correct place. Check reality calibrators and BS detectors for nominal operational parameters. (Wow! I got to say "parameters"!)
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday June 16 2015, @01:34PM
Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation [wikipedia.org] is located [ wmflabs.org (Warning: Unicode in URL) ] here.
(Score: 2) by cyrano on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:13PM
The institute can be found at the Russian Science Academy:
http://www.mosinfor.ru/instran/veer/9096instran.htm [mosinfor.ru]
Quote (Google Translate):
The main activities of the Institute:
• Development of high-power microwave technology, particle accelerators and other electro installations.
· Research in the field of high-power radio physics, charged particle beam dynamics, the physics of gas discharges in the fields of high-power microwave radiation and the development of methods for their use;
· Development of systems for microwave and radiation sterilization of medical products, food raw materials and food products.
· Development of equipment for waste neutralization of industrial and agricultural enterprises, medical institutions;
· Development of X-ray systems, radiographic and tomographic monitoring baggage, cargo and vehicles.
• Development of hardware-based shock electro-wave technology for use in medicine, in the production and transport.
· Development of equipment and technology for material modification.
· Development and creation of information-analytical and measurement systems for the fields of physics, medicine, the environment and safety;
Sounds like they could almost be called the "Tesla Institute"
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