Chinese into this stuff?? and India possibly? I think India had something like SATI (I’m guessing the name..dont remember)? ..like it’ll shoot powerfull beam of energy from here to up there…

yes here it is, its a pre-2000 article …… it will mould into any of the following, anti-satellite system, anti-aircraft system and even anti-ballistic missile system provided the foolproof tracking and early warning is there.

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India Building Beam Weapon

Mumbai, Aug 15: The Bhabha Atomic research Center (BARC) here is in the final stages of assembling a powerful electron accelerating machine named ‘Kali-5000’ which, its scientists say, can potentially be used as a beam weapon.

Bursts of microwaves packed with gigawatts of power (one gigawatt is 1000 million watts) produced by this machine, when aimed at enemy missiles and aircrafts will cripple their electronics systems and computer chips and bring them down. According to scientists, “soft killing” by high power microwaves has advantages over the so-called laser weapons which destroys by drilling holes through metal.

‘Kali-5000’ will be ready for tests by the year end according to P H Ron, Head, Accelerator and pulse Power Division at BARC and chief designer of India’s first ‘star wars’ weapon. Howerever , in the present form India’s beam weapon is too bulky- it weighs 26 tonnes including tanks containing 12,000 litres of oil .Ron said some “compacting” was possible.

He said ‘Kali (Kilo-ampere linear injector) was developed for industrial applications and that the defence use was a recent spin off. He however, declined to elaborate.

Describing it as a machine “bordering on basic research”, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Rajagopalan Chidambaram admitted in an interview that it has military potential. “There are some technologies we have to be in touch with because they may become useful (later)”, he said. Development of ‘Kali’ was mooted in 1985 by Chidambaram, then director of BARC, but work earnestly began in 1989.

Ron said the machine essentially generated pulses of highly energetic electrons. Other components in the machine down the line converted the electrons into flash X-rays (for ultra high-speed photography) or microwaves. The electron beam itself can be used for welding. The Defence Ballistic Research Institute in Chandigarh is already using an X-Ray version of ‘Kali’ to study speed of projectiles.

Another defence institute in Bangalore is using a microwave-producing version of kali which the scientists use for testing the vulnerability of the electronic systems going into the Light Combat Aircraft under development and designing electrostatic shields to protect them from microwave attacks by the enemy.

According to BARC scientists, ‘Kali’ has for the first time provided India a way to “harden” the electronic systems used in satellites and missiles against the deadly electromagnetic impulses (EMI) generated by nuclear weapons. EMI wreaks havoc by creating intense electric fields of several thousands volts per centimeter. The electronic components currently used in missiles can withstand fields of just 300 volts per centimeter.

While ‘Kali’ systems built so far are single shot pulse power systems (they produce one burst of microwaves and the next bursts comes much later), ‘Kali-5000’ is a rapid fire device and hence it’s potential as a beam weapon.

According to BARC reports the machine will shoot several thousand bursts of microwaves, each burst lasting for just 60 billionths of a second and packed with a power of about four gigawatts.The high power microwave pulses travel in a straight line and do not dissipate their energy if the frequency falls between three and ten gigahertz. According to BARC scientists, a microwave power of 150 megawatts has already been demonstrated in earlier ‘Kali’.