India's electron-accelerated pulse-power gigahertz microwave beam weapon : KALI

Indian atomic scientists have developed the country's first 'star wars' weapon whose beams could cripple enemy missiles and aircraft.

Bursts of microwaves for KALI packed with gigawatts of power could "soft kill" incoming enemy aircraft and missiles by crippling their electronics systems and computer chips.

KALI = Kilo-Ampere Linear Injector
Kali is also the name of on all powerful demon killing Hindu godess.

According to scientists, ''soft killing" by high power microwaves has advantages over the so called laser weapon which destroys by drilling holes through metal.

The Kali system was developed for industrial applications and that the defence use was a recent spinoff.

Development of the Kali machine was mooted in 1985 by Dr Chidambaram, then director of BARC, but work earnestly began in 1989.

The machine essentially generated pulses of highly energetic electrons. Other components in the machine down the line converted the electrons into flash X-rays (for ultra high-speed photography) or microwaves. The electron beam itself can be used for welding.

The Defence Balistics Research Institute in Chandigarh is already using an X-ray version of Kali to study speed of projectiles.

Another defense institute in Bangalore is using a microwave-producing version of Kali which the scientists use for testing the vulnerability of the electronic systems going into the LCA Tejas under development and designing electrostatic shields to protect them from microwave attack by the enemy.

According to BARC scientists, the Kali machine has for the first time provided India a way to ''harden" the electronic systems used in satellites and missiles against the deadly electromagnetic impulses (EMI) generated by nuclear weapons.

The EMI wrecks havoc by creating intense electric field of several thousand volts per centimeter. The electronic components currently used in missiles can withstand fields of Just 300 volts per centimeter.

While the Kali systems built so far are single shot pulse power systems,the Kali-5000 is a rapid fire device, and hence its derrivative will be used as beam weapon.

According to BARC-published reports, the machine will shoot several thousand bursts of microwaves, each burst lasting for just 60 billionths of a second and packed with a power of about four gigawatts.

The high power microwave pulses travel in a straight line and do not dissipate their energy if the frequency falls between three and ten gigahertz.

Picture of its larger industrial version (dated 1998) (commisioned in 1999):


Its military version is currently in testing in Bangalore.

This pdf has some GREAT details of it (too complicated for me!)>> PDF file (only for PhD's !)


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[edit on 2-6-2005 by Stealth Spy]

A great development for India. With all of the new defence technology it's like the world is preparing for war.



[edit on 2-6-2005 by Nexus]

i doubt this is the first of its kind. maybe russian america developed it in the 60's

But good acheivment. if the techs not russian.

Originally posted by chinawhite
i doubt this is the first of its kind. maybe russian america developed it in the 60's

But good acheivment. if the techs not russian.

May i ask, why develop wheel over and over again, if you can instead use it and advance from it? Sort of pointless to see this type of comments as if it wouldnt be anything if its not totally indigenious invention.

edit: retraction..

[edit on 3-6-2005 by Daedalus3]

Originally posted by Nexus
A great development for India. With all of the new defence technology it's like the world is preparing for war.



[edit on 2-6-2005 by Nexus]

kinda like how it was this time 100 years ago pre ww1

Originally posted by Observer83

Originally posted by chinawhite
i doubt this is the first of its kind. maybe russian america developed it in the 60's

But good acheivment. if the techs not russian.

May i ask, why develop wheel over and over again, if you can instead use it and advance from it? Sort of pointless to see this type of comments as if it wouldnt be anything if its not totally indigenious invention.

you are right.

but ask yourself this site is about breakthrough tech. its not about posting projects that already been invented ages ago.

its so COOL that the KALI is being developed by India. its also cool that it mathes the name of that goddess. if u think about it India could quite easily become a world superpower in 150 years but most probably all the humans will be united by then! im saying this cuz if u see we've only had 50 years of independance. my grandfather was actually fighting in Independance and he's still alive and well. India has made an absolutely "gimongous" amount of progress considering its damn young age.



[edit on 15-6-2005 by ansi_c12]

[quote Indian atomic scientists have developed the country's first 'star wars' weapon whose beams could cripple enemy missiles and aircraft.

Bursts of microwaves for KALI packed with gigawatts of power could "soft kill" incoming enemy aircraft and missiles by crippling their electronics systems and computer chips.

KALI = Kilo-Ampere Linear Injector
Kali is also the name of on all powerful demon killing Hindu godess.

According to scientists, ''soft killing" by high power microwaves has advantages over the so called laser weapon which destroys by drilling holes through metal.
]

Its so COOL that the KALI is being developed by India. its also cool that it mathes the name of that goddess. if u think about it India could quite easily become a world superpower in 150 years but most probably all the humans will be united by then! im saying this cuz if u see we've only had 50 years of independance. my grandfather was actually fighting in Independance and he's still alive and well. India has made an absolutely "gimongous" amount of progress considering its damn young age.



[edit on 15-6-2005 by ansi_c12]

[edit on 15-6-2005 by ansi_c12]