Chinese 20GW Satellite Killing Microwave Weapon

[Forest Green]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2019524896775417986

View: https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/2019524896775417986?s=20

Chinese scientists build world-first 20GW microwave weapon that can fire 60-second bursts​

China builds world’s first 20GW microwave weapon that can fire a 60-second burst

Ground-based and compact Chinese technology can disrupt or damage Starlink satellites operating in low Earth orbit.

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[illRoyalPanda]

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?

 

[Forest Green]

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?

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.

 

[illRoyalPanda]

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.

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?

 

[Forest Green]

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?

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).

 

[chimeric oncogene]

Is it some kind of explosively pumped flux compression generator thing?

 

[Sferrin]

Is it some kind of explosively pumped flux compression generator thing?

What kind of explosion lasts a minute?

 

[lastdingo]

What kind of explosion lasts a minute?

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.

 

[Seragina]

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.

 

[Josh_TN]

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?

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.