{"id":194,"date":"2009-04-25T23:27:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T22:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lessradiation.co.uk\/?p=194"},"modified":"2009-04-25T23:27:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T22:27:56","slug":"microwave-weapon-defuses-bombs-from-afar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/04\/25\/microwave-weapon-defuses-bombs-from-afar\/","title":{"rendered":"Microwave weapon defuses bombs from afar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New Scientist<\/em> magazine reported last week that the US military have got a prototype of a new weapon. It&#8217;s a high-power laser that ionises the air between the weapon and target, the plasma channel this creates then acts as a waveguide for a stream of microwave radiation, this radiation then destroys the electronic ignition\/trigger system in a vehicle or bomb. Clever stuff indeed, we&#8217;re just glad we&#8217;re not operating the bloody thing!<\/p>\n<p>On a brighter note, this week&#8217;s <em>New Scientist<\/em> reports that the Obama administration are getting rid of some of the more pie-in-the-sky defence ideas. Apparently they&#8217;ve given up on some of the more wild &#8216;Star-Wars&#8217; defence shield ideas. The massive-laser-mounted-on-a-plane idea has been shelved for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Scientist magazine reported last week that the US military have got a prototype of a new weapon. It&#8217;s a high-power laser that ionises the air between the weapon and target, the plasma channel this creates then acts as a waveguide for a stream of microwave radiation, this radiation then destroys the electronic ignition\/trigger system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}