Posted on 03/17/2022 4:47:12 AM PDT by FarCenter
In a space shot across America’s bow, Chinese scientists have reportedly developed an ultra-high powered microwave device that can potentially jam satellite communications or damage sensitive satellite electronics.
The device, known as the Relativistic Klystron Amplifier (RKA), is a high-power microwave (HPM) source that is widely used in high-power radars, new accelerators and new communication systems because of its advantages in high-power, high-efficiency, stable-phase and stable-amplitude of output power.
According to Sichuan-based Chinese researchers, the device could generate a 5-megawatt short pulse in the Ka-band, a satellite frequency increasingly used by businesses and the military.
Ka-band systems are especially useful for military applications since they are built with smaller, steerable beams for high-capacity density, which adds some enhanced jam resistance for platforms while supporting significant uplink data rates for programs such as military intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and other data-rich applications.
Previous Chinese RKA prototypes only achieved a few hundred kilowatts of power in the Ka-band, but a substantial redesign by Chinese researchers allowed it to generate 501 megawatts in an experiment, with computer modeling suggesting even more room for improvement.
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Don’t stand in front of it.
Skin affect would be frying good..
First the USGovt etc builds the USSR up into a strong enemy.
Second the USGovt etc builds China up into a strong enemy.
Now, the USGovt etc builds Iran up into a strong enemy.
Anyone see a pattern?
Anyone see the logic?
Relativistic Klystron Amplifier (RKA) - we here from B.Clinton once again. He gave them (as a good will gesture toward more campaign contributions) a miniaturized Klystron Switch which enabled the Chinese to reduced the size of their thermonuclear warheads from tons to pounds. And now to kill US satellites potentially.
It’s that decision that’s allowed the Red Chinese to become such a threat to human civilization.
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Perhaps, but it was B.Clinton that gave them the means to become a military power to be reckoned with.
“In a space shot across America’s bow, Chinese scientists have reportedly developed an ultra-high powered microwave device that can potentially jam satellite communications or damage sensitive satellite electronics.”
As we bungle our way into WW3 with Putin, our satellites will be long gone before China takes them out.
Lets not forget the Federal Reserve lending money to Germany in the thirties.
Yes, I do see a pattern. That’s incredibly scary..
I worked at a Ku band Deployable Earth Terminal in Djibouti. We also worked with Very Small Aperture Terminals that the USMC used in the field. From experience I can tell you that if synchronous orbiting satellite systems start receiving excessive signals they have automatic shutdown systems that will protect them..(Don’t ask me how I learned that.) I don’t think that this Chinese system would destroy the satellite, it’s just a more powerful jammer that would be vulnerable to Anti-Radiation Missiles.
The component used in nuclear weapons is a Krytron switch, not a Klystron amplifier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krytron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klystron
The component used in nuclear weapons is a Krytron switch, not a Klystron amplifier.
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Hey! its been 25 years or so ... us older guys are allowed to have a few slip ups.
...or the CIA arming and training Al-Qaeda (aka. the Mujahideen).
Bkmk
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