Microwave is a kind of high-frequency electromagnetic wave with the wavelength range of 1mm- 1m and the frequency of 0.3GHz-300GHz. It has many light-like characteristics, such as traveling straight in the air at the speed of light, the altitude of geosynchronous orbit is about 36,000 kilometers, and the microwave can reach in 1/8 seconds with almost no time delay.
Microwave weapon, also known as RF weapon, generally consists of microwave generator, directional transmitting antenna and servo control system. The microwave generator is used to emit microwave electromagnetic pulse, the directional transmitting antenna concentrates almost all microwave energy in a certain direction, and the servo control system points the antenna in a certain required direction.
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The working mechanism of microwave weapon is based on the molecular interaction between microwave and irradiated object, which converts electromagnetic energy into heat energy. Its characteristic is that there is no heat transfer process, and many molecules in the irradiated material can move at once, so that the inside and outside are heated at the same time, resulting in high temperature burning the material.
Low-power light microwave weapons are mainly used as electronic countermeasures and "non-lethal weapons"; The high-energy microwave weapon is a powerful weapon of mass destruction. Microwave weapons are the bane of stealth aircraft.
Reference materials? Baidu Encyclopedia-Microwave Weapons