Max, seeing a seagull zapped in front of one of the large flat-panel beam steered arrays is enough to convince any young sailor to stay clear.

And I insist upon the advisability of avoiding personal exposure to all high-level EMR fields --- regardless of wavelength! --- e.g. '20-meters' will kill you just as dead as UHF/SHF/EHF -- albeit, perhaps, not as 'efficiently'

Best regards
HP

 

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Surely, you're referring to very low duty-cycle burst operation? (if so, Joules per pulse please?) -- Else the vessel must have been a reasonable facsimile of a floating 'Con Ed' station!

Best regards
HP

The electrical generation system on some navy vessels, especially those with electric drive motors are incredible, even by Con Ed standards. For some, the concept was that "in the future" the same generator could also power the laser weapons systems. Evidently it takes a lot of power to generate a 200KW laser beam for a few seconds.. Then the ship can get back underway. The radar systems used a lot of power for short pulses, BUT they had other modes available. A whole lot of the details were on a "need to know " basis and I could not provide any reason I needed to know. So I got answers like "big", "fastr", and "lots". The radar system had lots of power and after seeing sea gulls drop it became clear that the training movie was not faked.

And I am still wondering about the microwave grill appliance.