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Also, if this weapon is really powerful, you won't keep the frequencies it operates on a secret. Something able to fry a protected drone half a mile away is d
by londons_explore 3y ago
Also, if this weapon is really powerful, you won't keep the frequencies it operates on a secret. Something able to fry a protected drone half a mile away is detectable on the other side of the earth.
And when the enemy knows what frequencies this operates on, they can use quarter wave chokes in the sliding electromagnetic seals around the propeller shafts etc, making the craft able to withstand even more microwave power.
- nine_k 3y agoWhy would it operate on one strictly defined frequency? I would expect several quickly switched, and maybe even a chirp-style sliding frequency pulse, exactly to render narrow-band protections ineffectual.
- londons_explore 3y agobecause the only known way to make very high power microwave emitters, the magnetron, makes only a narrow band.
- nine_k 3y agoMakes sense. Add several with different resonance frequencies. This would also make the device degrade more gracefully if one of them dies.