[AMRadio] Coming Soon -- Microwave Gun

[Ed Sieb]

Received via email; source unattributed.
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Coming Soon -- Microwave Gun That Can Destroy Your Car From 600 Feet Away


A Pasadena, California company has created a device that will destroy a car’
s electrical system and stop it dead in its tracks. Just one pulse from this
beam disables cars up to 50 feet away.

How does it work? One beam pulsed in a burst lasting just 50 nanoseconds
disrupts your vehicle's electrical system. The radiation can overload wires,
or damage or upset your car's central microprocessor.

Their prototype is 5 feet long, 3 feet wide, 1 foot thick, and weighs just
under 200 pounds. With proper funding, it may be possible to create a device
weighing only 50 pounds that works from 600 feet away.

It operates on the same general principle as a microwave oven, but at a 300
megahertz frequency, rather than your standard microwave oven, which
operates at about 2.5 gigahertz. It is said to be non-harmful to humans.

Sources:
Slashgear December 4, 2007
http://www.slashgear.com/microwave-beam-used-to-stop-cars-dead-048821.php

Discovery News November 29, 2007
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/11/29/engine-car-stop-02.html

Eureka Aerospace HPEMS Technology Description
http://eurekaaerospace.com/hpems.php