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posted by janrinok on Tuesday June 16 2015, @02:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the thar-she-blows dept.

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.

http://beforeitsnews.com/middle-east/2015/06/russia-to-kill-drones-missiles-with-10km-range-super-high-frequency-cannon-2492552.html


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by gman003 on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:35AM

    by gman003 (4155) on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:35AM (#196737)

    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.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:48AM (#196739)

    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?)