military is reportedly planning to fit its fighter jets with microwave "ray guns" that could melt enemy targets. The Pentagon’s main research agency, Darpa, is looking at new ways of taking out rivals’ radars and sensors, classified papers supposedly show.B-52 bombers have carried out tests in recent years in which microwave “warheads” were able to “fry” electronic targets, The Times reports.Douglas Barrie, an aerospace expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, told the newspaper: “A lot of research work is going on in the US, as well as in the UK, China and Russia, on airborne microwave weapons, but it’s all classified.”A Darpa spokesman said: “There is an active study regarding electronic warfare for fighter planes,.
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