Sci-fi heroes can launch magical electronic devices to destroy enemies at the touch of a button, and now scientists have made sci-fi come true, using powerful microwave pulse energy to develop microwave missiles with magical beams. Military giant Raytheon Technologies (RTX, formerly Raytheon) announced that it has successfully completed the range test of its Chimera high-power microwave**.
Chimera is an abbreviation for The Counter-Electronic High-Power Microw**e Extended-Range Air Base Defense. According to a statement released on Raytheon's official website on January 29, the company and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory have successfully completed a three-week Chimera high-power microwave** test at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
During the tests, Chimera captured and tracked air targets and maintained continuous tracking while applying directed energy to multiple different targets, demonstrating end-to-end fire control. The Chimera construction is designed to transmit highly concentrated radio energy to targets at medium and long distances. Ground display systems possess more energy than other high-power microwave systems to defeat aerial threats at the speed of light.
High-power microwave systems are cost-effective and reliable solutions that play an important role in layered defense by increasing firepower durability and giving warfighters more options to quickly defeat adversaries, the statement said.
Small, inexpensive drones are a clear threat to the battlefield of the new era, and this war in Ukraine has shown itself vividly. The existing methods of confrontation are obviously insufficient, and most of them are directly shot down by machine guns and machine guns, which is obviously not cost-effective. In the face of **type UAVs, the idea of the United States is to conduct energy**, including laser and microwave. Using high heat energy to burn down a drone costs only a little bit of electricity.
Raytheon was awarded a three-year contract last year to design, manufacture and test two high-power microwave systems for the U.S. Navy and Air Force, with the first prototypes scheduled for delivery this year.