{"id":275455,"date":"2026-02-05T13:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/275455\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:16:07","slug":"chinese-scientists-build-world-first-20gw-microwave-weapon-that-can-fire-60-second-bursts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/275455\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists build world-first 20GW microwave weapon that can fire 60-second bursts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology in Xian, Shaanxi province, sits an unremarkable-looking device called the TPG1000Cs.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The TPG1000Cs is the world\u2019s first compact driver for a high-power microwave (HPM) weapon, capable of delivering an extraordinary 20 gigawatts of power for up to one full minute.<\/p>\n<p>Measuring just four metres long (13 feet) and weighing only five tonnes, it is compact enough to be mounted on trucks, warships, aircraft or even <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3339493\/china-applies-put-200000-satellites-space-after-calling-starlink-crash-risk?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">satellites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Until now, similar known systems could only operate continuously for no more than three seconds and were far bulkier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology in Xian, Shaanxi province, sits an unremarkable-looking device called the TPG1000Cs.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1657,3388,142513,85,46,142514,142511,1593,141,54485,142510,145,4688,4689,142512,142515,46619],"class_list":{"0":"post-275455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-chinese","10":"tag-high-power-laser-and-particle-beams","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-key-laboratory-on-science-and-technology-on-high-power-microwave-at-nint","14":"tag-northwest-institute-of-nuclear-technology","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-shaanxi-province","18":"tag-sinus-driver","19":"tag-space","20":"tag-spacex","21":"tag-starlink","22":"tag-tpgcs","23":"tag-wang-gang","24":"tag-xian"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}