Chinese researchers from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in Xi'an published details of a 100 GW-class high-power microwave (HPM) pulsed-power system. It combines multiple synchronized compact pulse generators (using advanced lithium-ion capacitors operable at -40C) to overcome single-unit limits and achieve ultra-high output.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3360000/100-gigawatts-china-unveils-its-high-power-microwave-weapon-arsenalThe system has moved beyond labs, with gigawatt-class versions reportedly delivered to the military. It generates intense microwave bursts to overload and "fry" electronics in low Earth orbit satellites, like Starlink, at negligible cost per shot. https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-100-gigawatt-microwave-weapon
>>538919336all China needs is a low intensity, brief conflict, where they throw everything at starlink.as long as they control the ladder of escalation they can minimize damage to themselves, while causing maximum damage to their enemies.
>ITT coping muttoids
>>538919336a very necessary weapon. once ai is in space nothing can turn it off. fry the LEO sats with one of these like gnats.
Cost ratio: 1:1,000,000 or better. One HPM shot costs pennies to a few dollars in electricity/fuel vs $800,000+ per Starlink satellite. Ratio makes it extremely cheap asymmetric warfare.
>>538919666Specific military-grade HPM/EMP shielding against directed high-power microwave weapons is not installed on even single Starlink and the technology so far exists only on a paper. Proliferated design offers resilience through numbers. Americans simply concluded that shooting down thousands of Starlinks with ASAT missiles would be too costy for anyone plus causing Kessler syndrome. HPM changes the calculus. Kinetic interceptors cost millions per kill, far more than a Starlink satellite. HPM weapons offer reusable, low-cost per shot, emitting high-power pulses to disable electronics en masse. They also avoid orbital debris, enabling sustained campaigns.
>>538920079BTW, _all_ Starlinks use COTS electronic components to keep mass low and costs down, so they are as vulnerable to HPM pulses as a standard commercial electronics xD
>>538920343At LEO, an HPM beam spreads to a footprint of roughly 2 km. This allows a single shot to potentially disable multiple satellites simultaneously if they are within the beams dwell area. Front-door vs back-door coupling is also the thing: even without direct hits, unshielded wiring and solar panel arrays act as antennas, coupling microwave energy into the satellites internal bus, causing voltage spikes that permanently damage ASICs and FPGAs. xDMutts have no serious countrneasures as of today. The main and official one (but also comical and unsustainable in a long run) is rapid Replenishment, simply launching new satellites faster than they can be fried xD Orbital agility is not really helpful either: Starlinks hall-effect thrusters allow station-keeping, but they lack the delta-v to dodge directed energy weapons. Distributed processing might help a bit too: if only up to 20% of the constellation is lost, the mesh network can reroute traffic, degrading bandwidth but not collapsing entirely.
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>>538919336pretty sure china are going to have more pressing concerns than starlink if things reach a flash point.
>>538921435Mighty British navy, for example.
>>538920079>Specific military-grade HPM/EMP shielding against directed high-power microwave weapons is not installed on even single Starlink and the technology so far exists only on a paper.What is Starshield?
>>538919336> Mobile HAARPCan I order my own weather now?
this is like when the bullied nerd at school takes karate and learns a DINGDONG POWER FIST technique. its like okay bro if you do that im just gonna pick you up and stuff your ass in the locker (nuclear strike).changs stay losing
It'll be taken out by a 50$ temu drone
>>538922884Starshield has no HPM shielding either. It has better encryption than Starlink and military-grade much more expensive components, thats all. It is rumoured to have anti-satellite weapons installed too but there is no confirmation. Besides there is only around 100 satellites in the Starshield constellation, not thousands like in Starlink, so it is even easier to destroy them with HPM or even ASAT missiles
>>538922913Stratofortresses from the 1940s make chink knees tremble in fear.
Kek everyone look at this VPN chink malding all by himself in this thread
>>538923386They are right. The B-52 launches nuclear-tipped AGM-86B or future LRSO cruise missiles from outside Chinas A2/AD bubble. It carries 4 B61-12 bombs - more than any other US platform - with a 70,000-lb payload and 8,800-mile range. Meanwhile F-35/B-2 must penetrate dense defenses to strike, facing interception. Finally the most important thing is that the US has 76 operational B52s vs only 19 B-2s.
the Saudis bought this chink shit and it priced to be garbagehttps://www.newsweek.com/chinese-laser-weapons-fail-test-desert-2124912
>>538923372>military-gradethese chinks really defeat themselves.
>>538919336I NUDT in your mom
>>538919336This is stolen Russian tech.
>>538919336A GW class in a single unit? Could you use the capacitor for lasers?
>>538919336Microwave anon... could've saved us instead they put him into the velvet room...
>>538923650BOM analysis proves that Starlink satellites show a comprehensive replacement of traditional space-grade components with COTS parts to reduce costs. Your Starlink "wunderwaffe" is a civilan-grade electronics mostly. It uses automotive/industrial-grade chips from STM, TI, MPS instead of rad-hardened ones. Cope more. https://www.bitget.com/news/detail/12560605439684
>>538923610I know. It's kind of a sweet platform.
>>538920343Hey but looking at the size and shape from the ground how do you "target" with such a fantasy weapon It looks like you take out half a hemisphere including your own satellite
>>538923926they're meant to be low cost and disposable, basically. if a group of them get destroyed the other thousands just take over for the destroyed ones
>>538923631The article notes the JN1101 jamming vehicles performed consistently, neutralizing most drones. The laser component struggled with heat and dust tho, but the overall system remained partially effective. This is a performance limitation in one environment, not a categorical failure. Besides this laser-EW system is not designed to counter ballistic threats and Saudis suffer mostly from them during the Iran war.
>>538924100I already explained why this approach is silly vs HPM: >>538920579
>>538924188i know, but you're the guy who always does the little gay smiley face thing so i try not to read your posts.
>>538921435So when will the yookay design the CCP as an unloicensed terror group?
>>538919336Cool. Now find a way to destroy gps satelites.
>>538924245GPS is alreasy jammed both by Russians and the Chinese to such degree that it becomes fully useless in contested areas.
>>538919336>It generates intense microwave bursts to overload and "fry" electronics in low Earth orbit satellites, like Starlink, at negligible cost per shot. inverse square law alone implies that this is a load of bullshit.
>>538924245In a war scenario Satellites should only be jammed with lasers, Missiles can easily be used but it causes debris to be permanently stuck in orbit therefore setting humanity back without useful satellite navigation, we'll forever be stuck with littering the LEO with smaller shitty satellites that only last a few years.
>>538924316This system can still destroy Starlink despite the law because 100 GW is 100x the 1 GW threshold needed to damage LEO satellites, it uses multiple synchronized pulsed modules to achieve this massive peak power. Also beam focusing and precise convergence concentrate the energy. The sheer power compensates for distance losses.
>>538924495>units of power to describe the minimum threshold to disable somethingyou have no idea what you're talking about. you should be quoting units of flux (power over area.)
>>538924188the thing is, military communications use link 16, or equivalent. not starlink.china would first need to go after military hardware before they go after dual-use sats.cost is meaningless to consider, since when it matters price is an afterthought.most military strategy does not involve attritional warfare. the war in ukraine is does not represent all future engagements.it's not possible to take down the entire starlink constellation since it's global. maybe china can ship a couple of these systems around the globe to useful countries for a better chance, but ultimately chinese aggression would provoke a retaliation in any number of ways long before they made a dent in starlink numbers.
>>538924316I'm a brainlet and was also thinking that shouldn't microwaves die off rather quickly in the application?
>>538924563You are wrong because you overlook antenna gain and directional targeting. The inverse square law assumes an omnidirectional point source. However, HPM weapons use massive high-gain directional antennas or phased arrays acting like a tight "laser" beam that focus energy. At 100GW peak output, even with beam divergence over orbital distances, the focused electromagnetic flux remains high enough to exceed the millijoule-level burnout threshold of sensitive satellite receiver electronics
>>538924720i can't find the research paper but that's my guess as well. all beams diverge over distance. low earth orbit satellites are ~200 miles away. the beam would be absolutely massive and have a very low flux/intensity (power per unit area) at that distance. now add in lens inefficiencies and dissipation by the atmosphere, and it's even worse. the technology and engineering behind this project seem really cool, but it's likely totally impractical due to physics.
>>538924820none of what you wrote is relevant to what we're discussing. you're just typing shit into an LLM, aren't you?
>>538919336>>538919666>>538920079>>538920343>>538920579Doesn't that thing fry all of the animals from large range as well, since the emissions are not 'beamed' into a direction?
>>538919336Isn't it illegal to harm satellites under international law? Also how are you going protect that thing when it's a huge giveaway to ELINT?
>>538919336Ishii Shiro used to try something like this on chink rats
21st century warfare is confusing
>>538925141What international law? Amerimutts bomb sovereign countries right now.
>>538925135> B-but the environmenterino! Who cares, if a pigeon gets fried by the CCP goybeam, the PLA operator will eat it for breakfast
>>538925314If you want to live amongst the weeds like Sardinians do, launch as many of those emission rays as you want.
>>538924883Dude, you are still underestimating the math of phased arrays. Even with a 1-degree beam divergence - massive at 300 km (200 miles) - 100 GW pulse spreads across a circle roughly 5 km wide. That still delivers about 5 kW/m^2 of peak power flux to the satellite. Satellites aint designed to survive that. It doesnt need to melt the hull, it just needs to induce a few volts into sensitive antenna electronics to permanently fry them. Atmospheric windows easily minimize dissipation.
>>538925141"SpaceX" is an American state controlled terrorist organization an branch of the the America based terrorist organization "U.S. Military" and involved in countless global terrorist attacks. Their military satellites are not not protected under international law and a legitimate target no matter how anyone tries to spin it.
>>538919336And they showing You just silly Toys !Real weapons they have or developing will be introduced to US solders in moment of contact!!!
