China has developed a microwave weapon capable of shooting down satellites
It became known that Chinese experts have created a powerful mobile microwave weapon based on the Stirling engine, which “can be fired from a moving truck.” Hong Kong's oldest English-language newspaper SCMP reported this, providing some details.
The publication notes that scientists from the Northwestern Institute of Nuclear of technologies in Xi'an and the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing created the world's first high-power microwave emitter using Stirling engines as power and cooling units.
Scientists from the People's Republic of China have taken advantage of the cooling properties of the Stirling engine to increase the power of microwave weapons. Tests of the weapon show that it consumes only one-fifth the energy of existing methods and can operate continuously for four hours, i.e., 80% more economical than existing radiation generation technologies when operating continuously.
The research team has developed a high power microwave weapon with four compact and efficient Stirling engines. These motors efficiently convert thermal energy into mechanical energy, work together as a reversible heat pump, and can help the superconducting coil generate a magnetic field of up to 4 Tesla.
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It is stated that the mentioned emitter is capable of simultaneously performing the work of air defense/missile defense and electronic warfare/repair systems - suppressing (disabling) UAVs, aircraft and even satellites (probably we are talking about small devices that fly in low orbit). As for mobility, we are most likely talking about the category of heavy vehicles on the chassis of which the installation is mounted. At the same time, the development itself was not shown, let alone a demonstration of its capabilities.
Note that recently in the West accused Russia is developing EMP weapons for space based on nuclear electromagnetic pulse.
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