Chinese 20GW Satellite Killing Microwave Weapon

do you think they're saying its 20gw for 60 seconds, or 60 seconds on a smaller outpost because that is a extremely high amount of power output?
 
illRoyalPanda said:
do you think they're saying its 20gw for 60 seconds, or 60 seconds on a smaller outpost because that is a extremely high amount of power output?
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IMO they are saying short pulses of 20GW (non-continuous), which go on and off at a given frequency for 60s. The average power is probably way less, otherwise they'd need like 20 nuclear reactors to power it (even assuming 100% energy conversion efficiency). ;) Another source is stating 3,000 pulses.

How mobile it is questionable and also whether it's self-powered or needs plugging into the main grid.
 
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Forest Green said:
IMO they are saying short pulses of 20GW (non-continuous), which go on and off at a given frequency for 60s. The average power is probably way less, otherwise they'd need like 20 nuclear reactors to power it (even assuming 100% energy conversion efficiency). ;)

How mobile it is questionable and also whether it's self-powered or needs plugging into the main grid.
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The Article is claiming it could be mounted on trucks and aircraft so I believe it has to be self powered for that but maybe they'll have a smaller version for more mobile platforms?
 
illRoyalPanda said:
The Article is claiming it could be mounted on trucks and aircraft so I believe it has to be self powered for that but maybe they'll have a smaller version for more mobile platforms?
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Don't know but sources are saying it weighs 5 tons, at that weight the smart move would be to put it in orbit (if it was self-powered).
 
Sferrin said:
What kind of explosion lasts a minute?
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A MG3 can be tuned to do 1,000 explosions in 60 seconds.
Consider that the thread already mentioned non-continuous pulses over a period of 60 seconds.

There's no supercapacitator capacity and no national electrcity grid node that could sustain 20 GW for 60 seconds.
 
It depends on how much energy was actually used per pulse duration. Let's say it's 400 J for 1 microsecond times 50 pulses per second and we get 20 GW.
 
illRoyalPanda said:
do you think they're saying its 20gw for 60 seconds, or 60 seconds on a smaller outpost because that is a extremely high amount of power output?
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20 gw is the output of the three gorges dam. I think units of measurement or time increments have been garbled in translation. The heat dissipation of 20 gw over a single minute would melt diamonds.
 

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