My other point was about avoiding the beam to avoid being cooked. On an un-named U.S. Navy ship there are reports of seagulls being cooked flying thru the radar beam. It seems that while the beam is lethal it fails to cook adequately enough for human consumption. So there are "additional considerations" relative to wireless power transmission.

When I was in the service we would get monthly safety bulletins and a big part of it was covering accidents and mishaps so that people could learn from the mistakes of others. One of them, from the 1986 time frame, was about an F-15 crew chief (happened to be a female) that was killed while working on a bird because the bird on the ramp immediately behind it had turned on its radar. IIRC, the people doing maintenance on that bird had installed the device that defeats the WOW (Weight On Wheels) switches to make the aircraft think it was in the air so that various systems could be tested. They weren't working on the radar, but had not done the preparatory work well enough to ensure that it was off, so they were unaware that they were transmitting. The poor crew chief a few dozen yards in front of it was cooked from the inside pretty quickly (I don't recall if any time estimates were given, but it probably didn't take long for enough damage to be done to her brain to cause her to collapse -- I just hope it wasn't too agonizing for her as it was happening).

 

Considering how a microwave oven heats things, one should be aware of the hazards. And of course the power level is top secret, as is the pulse shape. Like some other data: How fast?? "Real Fast" , How much power?? "Quite a bit". I had asked about the performance of a USMC tank a few years back, because the fuel consumption rate at engine top speed was impressive.

 

Considering how a microwave oven heats things, one should be aware of the hazards. And of course the power level is top secret, as is the pulse shape. Like some other data: How fast?? "Real Fast" , How much power?? "Quite a bit". I had asked about the performance of a USMC tank a few years back, because the fuel consumption rate at engine top speed was impressive.

There is nothing really top-secret about electromagnetics, operational radar or most military things to a capable adversary like Russia or China. I've worked both ends as a radar system repairman and EW countermeasures tech and installer. Secrecy is a way to project doubt in exactly how known capabilities will be used in X scenario with X weapon or countermeasures system. It not really about how things work.

https://www.safie.hq.af.mil/News/Vi...eo/863581/Cryptologic Technician (Technical)/
https://man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/ship/weaps/an-slq-32.htm