KALI 5000 - Enemy Missiles - Here we come!

[itsnotmyid]

Design

The KALI series (KALI 80, KALI 200, KALI 1000, KALI 5000 and KALI 10000) of accelerators are described as "Single Shot Pulsed Gigawatt Electron Accelerators"[3]. They are single shot devices, using water filled capacitors to build the charge energy. The discharge is in the range of 1GW. Initially starting with 0.4GW power, present accelerators are able to reach 40GW. Pulse time is about 60 ns.

The Microwave radiations emitted by the KALI-5000 are in the 3-5 GHz Range

The KALI-5000 is a pulsed accelerator of 1 MeV electron energy, 50-100 ns pulse time, 40kA Current and 40 GW Power level. The system is quite bulky as well, with the KALI-5000 weighing 10 tons, and the KALI-10000, weighing 26 tons. They are also very power hungry, and require a cooling tank of 12,000 liters of oil. Recharging time is also too long to make it a viable weapon in its present form.

[edit] Applications

The KALI has been put to various uses by the DRDO. The DRDO was involved in configuring the KALI for their use.

The X-rays emitted are being used in Ballistics research as an illuminator for ultrahigh speed photography by the Defence Ballistics Research Institute (DBRL) in Chandigarh. The Microwave emissions are used for EM Research.

The microwave-producing version of Kali has also been used by the DRDO scientists for testing the vulnerability of the electronic systems of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), which was then under development.

It has also helped in designing electrostatic shields to "harden" the LCA and missiles from microwave attack by the enemy as well as protecting satellites against deadly Electromagnetic Impulses (EMI) generated by nuclear weapons and other cosmic disturbances, which "fry" and destroy electronic circuits. Electronic components currently used in missiles can withstand fields of approx. 300 V/cm, while the fields in case of EMI attack reach thousands of V/cm.

[edit] As a Weapon

The KALI's potential for a military role as a beam weapon has made it, in the eyes of the people, "India's Star Wars". However, weaponisation of the KALI will take some time. The system is still under development, and efforts are being made to make it more compact, as well as improve its recharge time, which, at the present, makes it only a single use system.

There are also issues of creating a complete system, which would require development of many more components. There have also been reports of placing the weaponized KALI in an Il-76 aircraft as an airborne defence system. There is also speculation of using the KALI as an Anti-satellite weapon and as a space-based weapon system, although it is unlikely that they would be implemented, given India's stance on those issues.

If weaponized, it is quite likely that KALI would be integrated into India's fledgling Ballistic Missile Defense program.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KALI_(Laser)

 

[venom]

The main Advantage Of KALI over Laser system is tat the laser has to burn & penetrate the missile in order to destroy it & KALI will Just fry away the electronics of the missile making it useless......its like destroying the brain instead of punching the face.....ha ha ....can't wait 2 c it operational

 

[p2prada]

KALI is a particle accelerator used in Physics experiments. It's not a weapon.

A future derivative may be possible, but wireless transfer of large power is fictional as of today.

 

[Sridhar]

Venom we already a thread for KALI here

http://www.defenceforum.in/forum/in...emy-missiles-here-we-come.html?highlight=kali

Current topic will be merged with the old one. Venom a king suggestion , as you are new here please search for threads before you post any new.

 

[venom]

K ...... u can merge it...

 

[MitMeister]

hey its a interesting project, but more interesting if made a weapon.. can we have brainstroming session on this.

1) I am in telecom sector, and to deliver microwave(Uw) over long distance is always a pain in the ... Weather, Obstacle, Interference, Dispersion,etc.
2) Given the huge power, how do you charge it and mobilize it for firing. Also repetitive firing.
3)I think target should be within ~50KMS for this to be useful, But Missiles are easier to hit during booster phase...


Does anyone know abt these, or have solution or suggestion.

 

[venom]

hey its a interesting project, but more interesting if made a weapon.. can we have brainstroming session on this.

1) I am in telecom sector, and to deliver microwave(Uw) over long distance is always a pain in the ... Weather, Obstacle, Interference, Dispersion,etc.
2) Given the huge power, how do you charge it and mobilize it for firing. Also repetitive firing.
3)I think target should be within ~50KMS for this to be useful, But Missiles are easier to hit during booster phase...


Does anyone know abt these, or have solution or suggestion.

No Anti-ballistic missile system has a range of 50 kms......it will have a range of atleast 100 kms...

 

[LETHALFORCE]

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India's beam weapon 'Kali-5000'

MUMBAI - The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) here is in the final
stages of assembling a powerful electron accelerating machine named
''Kali-5000`` which, its scientists say, can potentially be used as a beam
weapon.

Bursts of microwaves packed with gigawatts of power (one gigawatt is 1000
million watts) produced by this machine, when aimed at enemy missiles and
aircraft, will cripple their electronics systems and computer chips and
bring them down.

According to scientists, ''soft killing`` by high power microwaves has
advantages over the so called laser weapon which destroys by drilling
holes through metal.

Kali-5000 will be ready for testing by the end of this year, according to
Mr P H Ron, head of the accelerator and pulse power division at Barc and
chief designer of India`s first star wars weapon.

However, in the present form India`s beam weapon is too bulky - it weighs
26 tons - including tanks containing 12000 litres of oil. Mr Ron said some
''compacting`` was possible.

He said Kali (kilo-ampere linear injector) machine was developed for
industrial applications and that the defence use was a recent spinoff. He,
however, declined to elaborate.

Describing it as a machine ''bordering basic research,`` Atomic Energy
Commission Chairman Rajagopalan Chidambaram admitted in an interview that
it has military potential. ''There are some technologies we have to be in
touch with because they may become useful (later),`` he said.

Development of the Kali machine was mooted in 1985 by Dr Chidambaram, then
director of Barc, but work earnestly began in 1989.

Mr Ron said the machine essentially generated pulses of highly energetic
electrons. Other components in the machine down the line converted the
electrons into flash x-rays (for ultra high-speed photography) or
microwaves. The electron beam itself can be used for welding.

The Defence Balistics Research Institute in Chandigarh is already using an
x-ray version of Kali to study speed of projectiles.

Another defense institute in Bangalore is using a microwave-producing
version of Kali which the scientists use for testing the vulnerability of
the electronic systems going into the light combat aircraft under
development and designing electrostatic shields to protect them from
microwave attack by the enemy.

According to Barc scientists, the Kali machine has for the first time
provided India a way to ''harden`` the electronic systems used in
satellites and missiles against the deadly electromagnetic impulses (Emi)
generated by nuclear weapons.

The Emi wrecks havoc by creating intense electric field of several
thousand volts per centimeter. The electronic components currently used in
missiles can withstand fields of Just 300 volts per centimeter.

While the Kali systems built so far are single shot pulse power systems
(they produce one burst of microwaves and the next burst comes much
later), Kali-5000 is a rapid fire device, and hence its potential as a
beam weapon.

According to Barc-published reports, the machine will shoot several
thousand bursts of microwaves, each burst lasting for just 60 billionths
of a second and packed with a power of about four gigawatts.

The high power microwave pulses travel in a straight line and do not
dissipate their energy if the frequency falls between three and ten
gigahertz.

According to Barc scientists, a microwave power of 150 megawatts has
already been demonstrated in earlier versions of Kali.

Source: DECCAN HERALD
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[Vikramaditya]

Kali is linear electron accelerator being developed in India, by the Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO) and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).

It is a weapon of future.....:113:

KALI could as High-Power Microwave gun, which could destroy incoming missiles and aircraft through destroying the electronic circuitry on the missile.

But experiment is on..
Although KALI-5000 was commissioned in 2004.

 

[Vikramaditya]

India is planning to develop a laser-based weapon system as part of its Ballistic Missile Defence to intercept and destroy missiles soon after they are launched towards the country.

"If you have a laser based system on an airborne or seaborne platform, it can travel at the speed of light and in a few seconds, we can kill a ballistic missile coming towards us," DRDO's Air Defence Programme Director V K Saraswat told PTI in New Delhi .


He said the laser-based interceptor will give 'more time' to the BMD system to kill a ballistic missile launched from a distance of 2000 km.


"Suppose if the missile is being launched at Indian target from 2000 km. If I have to kill it there, I will have to travel that distance, which will require many minutes to be there. If you have a laser system travelling at a speed of light, it can kill that missile in its boost phase (just after launch) even before it has travelled a few 100 km," Saraswat, who is Chief Controller R&D, said.


A ballistic missile take-off has three segments. When launched, it is called boost phase, and followed by the mid course when it reaches the highest point of its trajectory and lastly the terminal phase when it is coming close to the target on ground.


Saraswat said its ideal to destroy a ballistic missile carrying nuclear or conventional warhead in its boost phase.


"It's easier to kill a missile in boost phase as it has not gained much speed and is easier to target. It cannot deploy any countermeasures and it is vulnerable at that time," Saraswat said.


The distinguished scientist stated that DRDO laboratories like The Laser and Science Technology Centre (LASTEC) was also developing such technologies.


"In LASTEC, we are developing many of these technologies. We have to package these technologies on aircraft like the Americans have done on their systems," he added.


Saraswat added that it will take another 10-15 years for the premier defence research institute to make it usable on ground.

BUT CAN DRDO DO THIS ON TIME

 

[Sridhar]

India is planning to develop a laser-based weapon system as part of its Ballistic Missile Defence to intercept and destroy missiles soon after they are launched towards the country.

"If you have a laser based system on an airborne or seaborne platform, it can travel at the speed of light and in a few seconds, we can kill a ballistic missile coming towards us," DRDO's Air Defence Programme Director V K Saraswat told PTI in New Delhi .


He said the laser-based interceptor will give 'more time' to the BMD system to kill a ballistic missile launched from a distance of 2000 km.


"Suppose if the missile is being launched at Indian target from 2000 km. If I have to kill it there, I will have to travel that distance, which will require many minutes to be there. If you have a laser system travelling at a speed of light, it can kill that missile in its boost phase (just after launch) even before it has travelled a few 100 km," Saraswat, who is Chief Controller R&D, said.


A ballistic missile take-off has three segments. When launched, it is called boost phase, and followed by the mid course when it reaches the highest point of its trajectory and lastly the terminal phase when it is coming close to the target on ground.


Saraswat said its ideal to destroy a ballistic missile carrying nuclear or conventional warhead in its boost phase.


"It's easier to kill a missile in boost phase as it has not gained much speed and is easier to target. It cannot deploy any countermeasures and it is vulnerable at that time," Saraswat said.


The distinguished scientist stated that DRDO laboratories like The Laser and Science Technology Centre (LASTEC) was also developing such technologies.


"In LASTEC, we are developing many of these technologies. We have to package these technologies on aircraft like the Americans have done on their systems," he added.


Saraswat added that it will take another 10-15 years for the premier defence research institute to make it usable on ground.

BUT CAN DRDO DO THIS ON TIME

Viki post the link and don't type in All caps .

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[MitMeister]

Laser weaponry.. ha... India or DRDO is jus thinkin abt it... but if we actually come up with it on field and something like KALI-10000 Missile destroyer, it'll be the dream weapons for Indian army. But with Yankees already into it for over two decades, and they say it'll a decade before weapons is handed over. I think with DRDO and Indian Gov efficiency it'll be almost 5 decades before we come up with something useful. No offence .Peace. Can someone challenge this...

 

[blade]

KALI : kilo-ampere linear injector (INDIA)

Development of High Power Pulsed Electron Accelarators
Single Shot Pulsed Gigawatt Electron Accelerators
Indigenous technology for Electron Accelerator technology development was carried out meticulously and has built four accelerators starting with a modest power level of 0.4 GW, APPD has successfully developed accelerators with a power level of 40 GW. KALI series of accelerators includes KALI 80, KALI 200, KALI 1000, and KALI 5000.

KALI � 5000: This system is designed to produce electron pulses of about 100 ns with an energy of about 1 MeV, current 40 kA and a power of 40 GW. This Relativistic Electron Beams (REB) thus generated will be used for the generation of High Power Microwaves (HPM) & Flash X Rays (FXR). Commissioning trials for KALI 5000 system have begun.
A view of a 1 MeV, 50 -100 ns, 40 GW pulsed accelerator (KALI 5000) is depicted below
View attachment 1300 KALI-5000 Accelerator

View attachment 1301 KALI-5000. Operation at 650KV

Multiple Shot, 1 GW, 10 -100 Hz, Linear Induction Accelerator � LINAC

This Accelerator will deliver electron beam at the rate of 10 - 100 Hz with an energy and current of 200 keV, 5kA respectively. The pulse length will be around 50 ns. In this device, double exponential electrical pulses of 20 kV/20ms produced by a solid state driver are amplified, compressed and shaped into rectangular pulses of 75 kV / 50 ns by successive stages of magnetic compression switches. These pulses are fed into a two-stage induction accelerator cavities, for accelerating the electron beams to about 1 GW of power (peak). This accelerator will also be used for generating HPM and FXR and dynamic imaging. Most of its subsystems are in the advanced stage of fabrication.

Pulse Power Systems:

A technology developed over the last 25 years or so.
View attachment 1302 80 joules Pulse power system gifted to IIT Chennai: A MARX bank based, 300 kV, 2kA, 100 ns pulse power source was gifted to High Voltage Electrical Engineering deptt. of IIT Chennai.
A view of this source is shown in Figure. It is being used as an educational tool for imparting training and teaching to the B.Tech, M. Tech and Ph.D. students about designing the MARX generator and their characterizations.

The KALI (Kilo Ampere Linear Injector) is a linear electron accelerator being developed in India, by the Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO) and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Overview:
The KALI is not a laser weapon as commonly believed. It emits powerful pulses of electrons (Relativistic Electron Beams- REB). Other components in the machine down the line convert the electron energy into EM Radiation, which can be adjusted to x-ray (as Flash X-Rays) or microwave (High Power Microwave) frequencies.

This has fueled hopes that the KALI could, one day be used in a High-Power Microwave gun, which could destroy incoming missiles and aircraft through soft-kill (destroying the electronic circuitry on the missile). However, weaponising such a system has many obstacles to overcome.

History:
The KALI project was first mooted in 1985 by the then Director of the BARC, Dr. R. Chidambaram. Work on the Project began in 1989, being developed by the Accelerators & Pulse Power Division of the BARC. (Dr. Chidambaram was also the Scientific advisor the Prime Minister, and the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission). DRDO is also involved with this project. It was initially developed for industrial applications, although defence applications became clearer later[1].

The first accelerators had a power of ~0.4GW, which increased as later versions were developed. These were the KALI 80, KALI 200, KALI 1000, KALI 5000 and KALI 10000.

The KALI-5000 was commissioned for use in late 2004.[2]

Design:
The KALI series (KALI 80, KALI 200, KALI 1000, KALI 5000 and KALI 10000) of accelerators are described as "Single Shot Pulsed Gigawatt Electron Accelerators"[3]. They are single shot devices, using water filled capacitors to build the charge energy. The discharge is in the range of 1GW. Initially starting with 0.4GW power, present accelerators are able to reach 40GW. Pulse time is about 60 ns.

The Microwave radiations emitted by the KALI-5000 are in the 3-5 GHz Range

The KALI-5000 is a pulsed accelerator of 1 MeV electron energy, 50-100 ns pulse time, 40kA Current and 40 GW Power level. The system is quite bulky as well, with the KALI-5000 weighing 10 tons, and the KALI-10000, weighing 26 tons. They are also very power hungry, and require a cooling tank of 12,000 liters of oil. Recharging time is also too long to make it a viable weapon in its present form.

Applications:
The KALI has been put to various uses by the DRDO. The DRDO was involved in configuring the KALI for their use.

The X-rays emitted are being used in Ballistics research as an illuminator for ultrahigh speed photography by the Defence Ballistics Research Institute (DBRL) in Chandigarh. The Microwave emissions are used for EM Research.

The microwave-producing version of Kali has also been used by the DRDO scientists for testing the vulnerability of the electronic systems of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), which was then under development.

It has also helped in designing electrostatic shields to "harden" the LCA and missiles from microwave attack by the enemy as well as protecting satellites against deadly Electromagnetic Impulses (EMI) generated by nuclear weapons and other cosmic disturbances, which "fry" and destroy electronic circuits. Electronic components currently used in missiles can withstand fields of approx. 300 V/cm, while the fields in case of EMI attack reach thousands of V/cm.

As a Weapon:
The KALI's potential for a military role as a beam weapon has made it, in the eyes of the people, "India's Star Wars". However, weaponisation of the KALI will take some time. The system is still under development, and efforts are being made to make it more compact, as well as improve its recharge time, which, at the present, makes it only a single use system.

There are also issues of creating a complete system, which would require development of many more components. There have also been reports of placing the weaponized KALI in an Il-76 aircraft as an airborne defence system. There is also speculation of using the KALI as an Anti-satellite weapon and as a space-based weapon system, although it is unlikely that they would be implemented, given India's stance on those issues.

If weaponized, it is quite likely that KALI would be integrated into India's fledgling Ballistic Missile Defense program.


KALI = Kilo-Ampere Linear Injector
Kali is also the name of on all powerful demon killing Hindu godess.

According to scientists, ''soft killing" by high power microwaves has advantages over the so called laser weapon which destroys by drilling holes through metal.

The Kali system was developed for industrial applications and that the defence use was a recent spinoff.

Development of the Kali machine was mooted in 1985 by Dr Chidambaram, then director of BARC, but work earnestly began in 1989.

The machine essentially generated pulses of highly energetic electrons. Other components in the machine down the line converted the electrons into flash X-rays (for ultra high-speed photography) or microwaves. The electron beam itself can be used for welding.

The Defence Balistics Research Institute in Chandigarh is already using an X-ray version of Kali to study speed of projectiles.

Another defense institute in Bangalore is using a microwave-producing version of Kali which the scientists use for testing the vulnerability of the electronic systems going into the LCA Tejas under development and designing electrostatic shields to protect them from microwave attack by the enemy.

According to BARC scientists, the Kali machine has for the first time provided India a way to ''harden" the electronic systems used in satellites and missiles against the deadly electromagnetic impulses (EMI) generated by nuclear weapons.

The EMI wrecks havoc by creating intense electric field of several thousand volts per centimeter. The electronic components currently used in missiles can withstand fields of Just 300 volts per centimeter.

While the Kali systems built so far are single shot pulse power systems,the Kali-5000 is a rapid fire device, and hence its derrivative will be used as beam weapon.

According to BARC-published reports, the machine will shoot several thousand bursts of microwaves, each burst lasting for just 60 billionths of a second and packed with a power of about four gigawatts.

The high power microwave pulses travel in a straight line and do not dissipate their energy if the frequency falls between three and ten gigahertz.

Picture of its larger industrial version (dated 1998) (commisioned in 1999):


Its military version is currently in testing in Bangalore.

This pdf has some GREAT details of it (too complicated for me!)>> PDF file (only for PhD's !)


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www.financialexpress.com...

 

[Rage]

Found an interesting article on a Newsgroup commentary. As prada rightly stated, this is not a weapon yet: primarily due to bulk (require a cooling tank of 12,000 liters of oil), power-output ratio and recharging time. However, its weaponized intent is apparent, given that electronic components currently used in missiles withstand fields of approximately 300 V/cm, while the fields in an EMI attack reach thousands of V/cm, and that the KALI's discharge is in the range of 1GW, or 1 MeV ( a million electronvolts) electron energy, at 50-100 ns pulse time, 40kA Current and 40 GW power level. To put that into perspective, the world's largest and by far, powerful particle acclerator: the $ 16 billion Large Haldron Collidor built by CERN at Geneva effects a combined energy of future protons before collision at upto 14 TeV (teraelectronvolts: a million million electronvolts); while the total ERP (effective radiated power) of the H.A.A.R.P [High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program] is purported to be 3,9811 MW [39.811 GW]. Interestingly, Russia also owns and operates an ionospheric heater system similar to the HAARP, called 'Sura,' which is located roughly 150 km (93 mi) from the city of Nizhny Novgorod.:




Auroral Arms Race: India plays "catch-up" against Beijing-US EMP/HAARP


Fearful of Sino-American advances in military uses of electromagnetic energy weapons that fry circuits, clouds and brains by bouncing gigawatts of energy off the ionosphere from thousands of miles away,the world's largest democracy is taking the precaution of developing electrostatic shield technologies to "rebounce" directed HAARP energies "somewhere else."

The electrostatic shield is a defensive technology against electromagnetic projection weapons now in the hands of China and the US (HAARP and the tactical pulse weapon that can "shoot down" satellites (actually burn out their circuits.)

India is also adapting its microwave technology for deterrence. Their 'Kali - 5000" (kilo-ampere linear injector) is being adapted for use against an aggressor's planes and missiles. Research on an array of shield and "Ray Wars" projects are underway at research centers at Chandigarh, Bangalore, and Bhabha. (Why can't the U.S. be this open and honest about its projects -- everyone in the world knows about HAARP except the American people.)

There is no indication that India is following the U.S. and China in developing clandstine weather modification technologies for military use. India's weather modification projects well publicized and benign. It appears that truly open governments do not resort to such horrors.


American missiles, as China (and everyone else)now knows thanks to Clinton and Loral's Bernard Schwartz, can be knocked out by a pulse of just 300 volts per centimeter -- and a hardened replacement chip is still years away --hence the new heavy-handed emphasis on the Alaskan weapon and GWB's willingness to dump our current nuclear warhead and ICBM arsenal for something better. (This is not a Clintonesque treason/sellout; the our best nuclear weapon delivery systems are garbage now against China's EMP and exotic info-warfare (infiltration and sabotage) capabilities.

India -- which is a highly advanced country the with a population enjoying a standard of living and education levels higher than Germany's although mixed within a population of one billion souls on the sub-continent is faced with dangerous neighbors: the totalitarian, deadly and neurotically Machiiavellian communist-globalist regime in Beijing and Beijing's on-again-off-again puppet Pakistan (whenever Pakistan is manipulated back into the hands of Beijing-directed Bhutto faction -- which includes Hillary Clinton's cut-from-the-same-cloth girlfriend, Banizar Bhutto -- when you are dealing with Beijing you never know what duplicitious official has "gone Clinton" conducting self-sabotaging policies (like aggression in Kashmir--where CHina secretly encourages fanatics on both sides)-- although Musharraf appears to be a genuine populist and humanitarian along the lines of Pinochet, Fujimori, Pat Buchanan and Putin when it comes to oppsoing globalist skulduggery.

At any rate, Delhi feels it prudent to develop defenses against the Beijing-Globalist axis. And it doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to see that the United States, whether under Clinton or Bush, cannot be relied on to thward Bejing's increasingly clear aggressive designs, should the PLA feel confident enough to drop its current Sun-Tzu-Leninist-Zhouist subversion and begin overt military aggression or intimidation.

I hope India, Japan, South Korea, and the Taiwan (with China's nationalist government in exile), Russia, Ukraine, Iraq and Argentina can break free of Sino-American globalism and start their own
truly liberal and populist world block, a bastion of sanity to which the other financially ravaged nations with humane leadership and a clear view of where the IMF, the World Bank and globalist "free trade" (free leveraged plunder, actually) can find refuge and counterforce. Why not hope that?
Obviously the current geopolitical monstrosity errected in behalf of the financial aristocracies for their "global plantation" has no future on this planet. And certainly no leadership the Establishmentazzi bankrolls, no globalist-puppet international organizations and NGO's, all instruments of rich-men's deceit and larceny, can never act intelligently to reform international governance on behalf of common humanity.

A world led by open-societies cooperating from clearly understood nationally framed popular interests is just what mankind needs -- and an India that can protect itself from the secret terror weapons of Princelings and Western plutocrats is a mighty good start in that direction.

(I am not privy to any secrets. I make deductions. If I think they are important and sound I pass them on for you to evaluate.)

Dyck Eastman
Yakima
U.S.A.


India's Kali 5000 - Chemtrail Central Forum

 

[LETHALFORCE]

India's electron-accelerated pulse-power gigahertz microwave beam weapon : KALI, page 1


India's electron-accelerated pulse-power gigahertz microwave beam weapon : KALI



Indian atomic scientists have developed the country's first 'star wars' weapon whose beams could cripple enemy missiles and aircraft.

Bursts of microwaves for KALI packed with gigawatts of power could "soft kill" incoming enemy aircraft and missiles by crippling their electronics systems and computer chips.

KALI = Kilo-Ampere Linear Injector
Kali is also the name of on all powerful demon killing Hindu godess.

According to scientists, ''soft killing" by high power microwaves has advantages over the so called laser weapon which destroys by drilling holes through metal.

The Kali system was developed for industrial applications and that the defence use was a recent spinoff.

Development of the Kali machine was mooted in 1985 by Dr Chidambaram, then director of BARC, but work earnestly began in 1989.

The machine essentially generated pulses of highly energetic electrons. Other components in the machine down the line converted the electrons into flash X-rays (for ultra high-speed photography) or microwaves. The electron beam itself can be used for welding.

The Defence Balistics Research Institute
in Chandigarh is already using an X-ray version of Kali to study speed of projectiles.

Another defense institute in Bangalore is using a microwave-producing version of Kali which the scientists use for testing the vulnerability of the electronic systems going into the LCA Tejas under development and designing electrostatic shields to protect them from microwave attack by the enemy.

According to BARC scientists, the Kali machine has for the first time provided India a way to ''harden" the electronic systems used in satellites and missiles against the deadly electromagnetic impulses (EMI) generated by nuclear weapons.

The EMI wrecks havoc by creating intense electric field of several thousand volts per centimeter. The electronic components currently used in missiles can withstand fields of Just 300 volts per centimeter.

While the Kali systems built so far are single shot pulse power systems,the Kali-5000 is a rapid fire device, and hence its derrivative will be used as beam weapon.

According to BARC-published reports, the machine will shoot several thousand bursts of microwaves, each burst lasting for just 60 billionths of a second and packed with a power of about four gigawatts.

The high power microwave pulses travel in a straight line and do not dissipate their energy if the frequency falls between three and ten gigahertz.

Picture of its larger industrial version (dated 1998) (commisioned in 1999):


Its military version is currently in testing in Bangalore.

 

[tarunraju]

So this is essentially a microwave beam gun? Can it be used to knock down enemy spy satellites?

 

[LETHALFORCE]

So this is essentially a microwave beam gun? Can it be used to knock down enemy spy satellites?

The KALI's potential for a military role as a beam weapon has made it, in the eyes of the people, "India's Star Wars". However, weaponisation of the KALI will take some time. The system is still under development, and efforts are being made to make it more compact, as well as improve its recharge time, which, at the present, makes it only a single use system.

There are also issues of creating a complete system, which would require development of many more components. There have also been reports of placing the weaponized KALI in an Il-76 aircraft as an airborne defence system. There is also speculation of using the KALI as an Anti-satellite weapon and as a space-based weapon system, although it is unlikely that they would be implemented, given India's stance on those issues.

If weaponized, it is quite likely that KALI would be integrated into India's fledgling Ballistic Missile Defense program.

 

[Emperor]

My 2 cents regarding the weaponised KALI.

KALI works well against the nations who dont have space technology and specifically who never built any considerable/significant satellite.

Reason is so simple that KALI releases bursts of microwaves in the GW power levels. And this EM radiation is kinda similar to the radiation that is around in space.
But may not be of this level.

Hence any sat building nation which usually applies its radiation protection cover technology to its satellites can apply the same to its missiles and related offensive weapons.But the protection levels need to be scaled up significantly.

Even the missile faring nations started coming out with counter measures for HEL.
TID_BIT :Agni 3+ comes with all possible counter measures for all known threats .Its surface reflects the Lasers(be it high energy/low enegy) It is strengthened against EM radiation( all its avionics).It carries decoys for deceiving ABM.It has RWR and will change its course to avoid any ABM. And many others(which cant be put on public domain especially)

KALI helped the Indian scientific community to mainly strengthen their own missiles and sats against high intensity radiation.But the weaponisation program to kill others is in deadlocks.

But the optimism is that,it is still on the tables.An increased power level KALI will sort out the issues a bit.Since its a ground based ,it gives more provisions than once considered space based version.

 

[gokulakannan]

Interesting, If this microwave beam crippling gun is mounted on fighter aircraft, then it can easily intercept the SAM? correct me if i am wrong.

 

[Sabir]

It can not be ground based if it has to be used against enemy missiles (primary aim is to destroy them within their territory before they attain their full speed) because micro-waves move in straight lines unlike the projectiles. So there must be larger aircrafts like IL 76 or it should be placed in space. BTW there is hardly information about Kali-5000 after 2004. BARC is totally silent about it. May be it will take still a decade to weaponised it.