BAE Builds A Secret Microwave Gun for The High Seas
Defense contractor BAE Systems isn’t ready to talk about this just yet. But one of its forthcoming projects is a microwave weapon that can fry the electronics of watercraft engines and other seaborne dangers.
Microwave weapons are nothing new. Our frequent topic the “Pain Ray” — aka the Active Denial System — uses microwaves for crowd control, by making people feel like they’re on fire. And the Air Force wants a missile that releases powerful microwaves to fry circuitry. But whatever BAE’s working on, it wouldn’t be intended for use on people or come strapped to a missile, but rather it’d be part of a gun that can kill a boat dead in the water.
Or so BAE confirms about its High-Powered Microwave. “BAE Systems is developing the High-Powered Microwave (HPM) to provide a means to shut down small boat engines at tactically significant ranges,” emails spokeswoman Stephanie Bissell Serkhoshian. If it works, its technology could also target “a variety of platforms including ships, unmanned aerial vehicles and missile payloads.”
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