Research on the Development of High-Power Microwave Weapon Abroad

Abstract

As an important attack weapon in information countermeasures, high-power microwave weapon can interfere with or damage important enemy sensors, destroy key electronic components and pose a great threat to radar, navigation, communication systems, battlefield awareness systems and other weapon equipments. Now high-power microwave weapon technology has become a research hotspot in the world and also a new concept weapon technology under development. the US, Russia and European Defense Agency attach great importance to the development and application of the technology. Currently, the US is a leader in research on high-power microwave sources, high-power microwave emission and transmission, high-power microwave effects and protection. A major breakthrough has been made in miniaturization of high-power microwave warhead and accurate beam control. Russia is leading the way in repetition frequency pulse power sources and high-power microwave generation technology. In this paper, the development states of high-power microwave weapons of US, Russia and European Defense Agency are investigated.

Keywords

• |high-power microwave weapon|champ|hijenks|phaser|warden|hpem