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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: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday June 16 2015, @03:32AM
"Do you have any weapons?"
"No guns but lots of concealed knives. While I have an Idaho State Gun Safety Card, I never go near not a gun but a bullet. As a Physicist I know how to make every bullet in your clip detonate at a distance of ten miles."
Oddly they're completely cool with my knives, they have never objected to them. I often travel among a rough crowd.
Perhaps they don't believe me about making their bullets detonate but I was referring to a phased array of masers.
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(Score: 2) by gnuman on Tuesday June 16 2015, @03:46AM
phased array of masers, well, could be interesting... though if you could detonate bullets, you'd probably kill wearer first with that dosage.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:16AM
Indeed. One could also detonate them with a liberal application of napalm.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday June 16 2015, @06:46AM
microwave ovens heat food because the photons stimulate the rotation or perhaps the vibration of water molecules.
One would require waves such that a service pistol is a good antenna but it doesn't resonant with the law enforcement officer's precious bodily fluids.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday June 16 2015, @08:41AM
> As a Powder Mage I know how to make every bullet in your clip detonate at a distance of ten metres."
FTFY.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Powder_Mage_trilogy [wikipedia.org] (highly recommended)