If some of you are squeamish about railguns, then brace yourself for this H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds" weapon. If you have read the orignial book, you know what I'm talking about - the invisible ray.
ARDEC looks into microwave artillery weapon
http://www.janes.com/defence/news/jdw/jdw060728_1_n.shtml
By Nathan Hodge JDW Staff Reporter
Washington, DC
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A solicitation recently issued by the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (ARDEC) at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, announced a market survey to identify possible sources for developing an HPM payload for a 155 mm artillery round or 120 mm mortar shell. The device, according to the solicitation, "must be properly designed to defeat significant targets on the battlefield, be gun-hardened [and] munitionised".
In addition, the HPM round would have to be compatible with indirect-fire systems being developed under the army's Future Combat Systems modernisation programme. According to the solicitation, the army wants a round that could be fired from a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) cannon, NLOS mortar and the Mounted Combat Systems Vehicle and would also be compatible with legacy weapon systems.
The weapon would have to survive launch from a 155 mm artillery tube or 120 mm mortar or tank cannon and require no maintenance during storage.
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The reason you may not be reading a lot about
microwave cannons is the last general who talked about it mentioned using/in-field testing it on war protestors and during civil outbreaks.........................makes you wonder about the fruit loops with their hand on the trigger.
What freaks me out about the microwave stuff is that it goes through just about any barrier. You can't hide behind a wall or a bush with these systems.