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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 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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