China Working on Energy Weapon That Converges Multiple Beams
Where have we heard this one before? Jim Beam China’s military is working on an experimental weapon system that converges multiple streams of microwaves into a powerful energy beam, the South China Morning Post reports. In other words, it’s not entirely unlike the Death Star from the “Star Wars” franchise, albeit on a much smaller scale. According to the report, scientists claim they’ve “completed experimental trials on its potential military use.” However, whether their efforts will ever culminate in a weapon capable enough to destroy a planet like in “Star Wars,” let alone destroy much smaller targets, remains to be seen. Shooting at Alderaan Places For one, accumulating sufficient electromagnetic waves in the same location remains incredibly difficult. According to the SCMP, scientists calculated that they needed to achieve a positional accuracy of mere millimeters, and time synchronization of 170 trillionths of a second — more precise than an atomic clock. Nonenthless, scientists claim to have achieved this level of accuracy during recent experiments. While it won’t be blowing up adversary targets, the researchers found …
