Sci - fi tale are full of electromagnetic - pulse gimmick that blow out every computer from here to Kalamazoo . ButUS Armyresearchers are test a brusk skinny high - powered microwave dud that could actually be used in fight .
The tonality , apparently , is size . former HPMs were too foresighted to be deployed , but the one that went into testing last week at a military facility in Huntsville , Alabama ( “ The Rocket City ” ) is five feet farseeing and just six inches thick . “ It ’s a big deal , ” Edl Schamiloglu , an EE professor atUniversity of New Mexicotold IEEE Spectrum . “ The military would be able-bodied to in reality use these . ”
The weapon in examination will reach peak ability of 35 megawatts for just 100 to 150 nanosecond , pulsing out a microwave beam that covers 2GHz to 6GHz frequencies . There goes your Wi - Fi , and maybe your cellphone too .
The cool thing about the bomb is its primal power component , the “ flux condensation generator . ” Not only does it have a name that clearly was give to it by Dr. Emmet Brown , but one of theTexas Techresearchers develop the thing had this to say about it : “ The FCG is like a battery that pass on a stick of dynamite”—well , C4 actually , but we get the characterisation . bad ba - da - bonanza .
If you ’re electrically fain , be certain to soak up the more seductively nerdy inside information of this twenty-first - C ordnance at IEEE Spectrum . [ IEEE SpectrumviaGizmag ]
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