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| Chinese scientists have built a 'real-life DEATH STAR': Terrifying Star Wars-inspired weapon focuses microwave beams to wipe out enemy satellites | |
| 2024-11-07 | |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Chinese scientists claim to have created a 'real-life Death Star' capable of devastating enemy satellites in orbit. The science-fiction-inspired weapon combines pulses of microwave radiation into a single powerful beam - just like the planet-destroying lasers shown in Star Wars. In order to merge, the electromagnetic pulses must hit the exact same target within 170 trillionths of a second. That requires levels of timing more precise than the atomic clocks on advanced GPS satellites - a feat previously thought to be impossible. However, the weapon has now completed experimental trials for potential military applications thanks to breakthroughs in 'ultra-high time precision synchronisation'
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| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #5 Technically feasible but why would you invest in the phased array antennas and necessary electrical power infrastructure when you can develop ASAT missiles? |
| Posted by: magpie 2024-11-07 21:10 |
| #4 monosyllabian |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-11-07 11:12 |
| #3 If the word "terrifying" is in the headline, it's got to be the Daily Mail. |
| Posted by: MW 2024-11-07 09:13 |
| #2 Directed-energy weapon RETRO China in a microwave weapon great leap forward |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-11-07 00:28 |
| #1 China develops new satellite-wrecking Death Star-like microwave weapon RETRO New device could protect satellites from microwave attacks, scientists say |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-11-07 00:27 |