{"id":743966,"date":"2026-02-05T12:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/743966\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:14:12","slug":"chinese-scientists-build-world-first-20gw-microwave-weapon-that-can-fire-60-second-bursts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/743966\/","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":743967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3844],"tags":[1395,16536,219991,219992,219989,332,70,219993,219988,413,1603,3435,219990,16,15,219994,54035],"class_list":["post-743966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-high-power-laser-and-particle-beams","tag-key-laboratory-on-science-and-technology-on-high-power-microwave-at-nint","tag-northwest-institute-of-nuclear-technology","tag-russia","tag-science","tag-shaanxi-province","tag-sinus-driver","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-tpgcs","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wang-gang","tag-xian"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116017972234904318","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}