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.
(Score: 1) by spamdog on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:29AM
Maybe you could dial down the wingnut element, eh?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by gman003 on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:35AM
RT is extremely reliable at one thing: saying exactly what Moscow wants them to say. They toe the party line better than Fox News toes their party's line.
The summary makes it quite clear that we have no independent verification of this. The story is not "Russia makes weapon that kills drones", but "Russia claims to have weapon that kills drones". Which is still a story worth being informed of, and discussing.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:48AM
better than Fox News toes their party's line.
Unpossible, comrade! In Murdoch America, the Republican party toes Fox's line! (Does that sound creepily dirty to anyone else?)
(Score: 1) by kazzie on Tuesday June 16 2015, @06:40AM
Do you have another, canon source for this cannon?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday June 16 2015, @02:20PM
Just for info - I read news from all around the world. India, China, Russia - you name it. Although smaller nations get less time in my news feeds, I have some of those as well, like the Philippines. Wingnut element? A lot of the time, I think our own MSM is as wingnut as you can get. Is RT reliable? Not really, but it's as reliable as anything Ted Turner runs, or Patty Hearst, or that other wingnut from the opposite end, Rupert Murdoch. Really, do you trust any of THOSE three?