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The Navy Is Betting Big on High-Power Microwave Weapons

• mikewarot 5y ago
  >Unlike lasers, which typically fire a focused beam for short periods of time, HPM weapons can fire wide-area cone-shaped beams, enabling them to engage multiple UAS at once. Assume 10 megawatts of RF out from a 2 meter dish, that's a beamwidth of 0.73 degrees, at 1 kilometer range, that's a radius of 12 meters, for an area of 510 meters^2. The power density would be about 19kw/meter.... 19 times incident solar radiation. Sufficiently shielded targets should be proof against that energy level for the long enough to strike the target. Consider instead a 20mm proximity fuzed shell fired through the existing CIWS system, it might have far better luck.