China's New "Microwave Gun" Will Make Its Debut, What Is This Again? Military Fans Are All Turned Into Military Ignorants
Another new piece of equipment has been revealed. From the footage, several large 8×8 high-mobility truck convoys are particularly eye-catching. The vehicles are equipped with large planar array antennas and radar systems, which look completely different from traditional air defense missiles or artillery.
It is speculated that these devices are not conventional kinetic air defense weapons, but rather a high-power microwave system. It can directly burn out the electronic equipment of drones by emitting high-energy microwave pulses, making incoming targets completely inoperative from several kilometers away.
Different from traditional anti-aircraft guns or missiles, such weapons do not win by firing ammunition, but instead directly target the enemy's electronic systems using electromagnetic energy.
Especially in today's era of drone swarm warfare, the cost of intercepting a single drone is too high, while a microwave weapon can cover a large area of airspace with a single shot, and is seen as a killer锏 against low-cost drones.
Many people, upon seeing this equipment looking sci-fi, confuse it with the FK-3000, but in fact, the two are entirely different concepts.
The FK-3000 is a short-range air defense system developed by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation. Its core is kinetic interception, relying on a 30mm machine gun and small interceptor missiles to destroy targets through high-speed collision or explosion.
The high-power microwave system that has been exposed this time is likely the model called Hurricane-3000, developed by the China North Industries Group, and its principle is completely different from the FK-3000.
Microwave weapons are essentially invisible attacks. They can interfere with or even destroy the navigation, communication, and control systems of the target by emitting high-energy electromagnetic pulses, allowing a single attack to disable multiple drones simultaneously.
In contrast, the FK-3000 needs to lock on, fire, and intercept one by one, and its efficiency and cost cannot compare with the microwave system. The relationship between the two is more like that between a knife and an electromagnetic interference device. Although they may look similar, their combat logic is completely different.
If we consider the current global development trends, the importance of China's high-power microwave system becomes even more prominent.
The United States started similar research several years ago. Raytheon's CHIMERA system and the startup company Epirus's Leonidas have already completed live-fire tests. Their main purpose is also to counter drone swarms.
From the currently public information, China's solution has already taken shape. It not only has high platform stability, but also has strong target perception capabilities and high-energy coverage capabilities.
More importantly, the simultaneous display of multiple similar equipment indicates that the technical maturity and mass production capability have been guaranteed.
In the future, this microwave gun will complement traditional missiles and artillery, building a multi-layered defense system. It will form a strong deterrent against low-altitude threats, especially drone swarms, serving as another example of science fiction coming true.
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1841578091294727/
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