Nothing becomes a weapon the moment you think about it!!! The technology involved in KALI can definitely be used as a weapon - the real status is unknown. That seems to give you the license to judge that it'll never become a weapon - that sounds simplistic!!
KALI needs damn high maintenance, at best for research purpose. Regarding using it as weapon, it will be obsolete if ever brought.
India derived nuke from reactors because it hadn't, but as India got solid systems, what's need of pulling KALI here.
Apply logic instead of being judgemental.
"Tecgnology used in KALI can be used as a weapon."
Yes, it can be, may be obsolete but it can be.
But why you are dragging it here when we can have much better systems which are smaller enough to fit on trailers, planes, ships, trucks and don't need much cooling and maintenance?
KALI's plus points lag far behind cost of it's maintenance. India won't use it as a weapon.
But as technology involved can help to make building blocks of DEW program, government won't public it.
The technology involved in KALI is more likely to become a serious weapon than the laser stuff you folks keep drooling about!!
Laser based air defense has been tried for decades, and has failed - the whole concept of seering through the metal covering of a missile/aircraft (while it's flying at supersonic speeds) has proved futile - it's now relegated to knocking out low flying and slow speed UAVs (a task that's easily accomplished via several other low cost techniques!). Even this BB gun version has not found favor among the armed forces!
I can understand what you're saying because KALI being 100s of times powerful but I can't get why you're calling it failed, we have already got against drones.
Not favourable among armed forces? it's not even two years when it was materialized and tested, still in development.
Regrding shooting down big aircrafts and missiles, I have cited about a 1000kW solid DEW system earlier which will be as powerful as KALI but would really be usable, maintenable & transportable. But this is not KALI, that's other weapon.
EMP, particle beams are serious techniques to knock out supersonic missiles/aircrafts as they don't need to 'seer' the object for several seconds (but mere nanoseconds are enough)!!!! If EMP based missiles can be built to knock down ground radars, then why couldn't an EMP/ParticleBeam air defense be built to knock down missiles/aircraft. Before you come up with radiation hardening etc. let me tell you that despite what kind of hardening the body comprises they all need an outward looking radar/seeker etc!!!
But the weapon you cited is most likely ARDE's Railgun project. I have even tender issued for some testing infra!
Regarding nuclear reactors, there's never been any shyness in discussing it's research, installations, schedules
Pretty sure about that?:biggrin2: