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A carrier's radar has a vastly different power budget than basically anything else which is mobile, though. I mean, the AN/SPY-1 puts out a full megawatt of RF
by semi-extrinsic 9y ago
A carrier's radar has a vastly different power budget than basically anything else which is mobile, though. I mean, the AN/SPY-1 puts out a full megawatt of RF power. Even the gas turbine on an M1 Abrams tank, if it was coupled directly to a generator and powering nothing else, can't provide enough electricity to run that. Hell, even if you put two of them together, they'd struggle.
- madengr 9y agoThat’s 1 MW pulsed power at a low duty cycle. The average power is probably a few kW.
- Nexxxeh 9y agoMaking one-off pulses, could you use EPFCG's? With some sort of directional dish or something? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_comp...