Patent ID: 6559807
Filing Date: 2003-05-06
Classification: F41H,H01Q

Abstract:
A compact, lightweight, steerable, high-power, microwave weapon comprising:(a) a self-powered, steerable vehicle having at least one exterior antenna support surface; (b) a self-powered, microwave radiation source mounted in said vehicle and including waveguide means to connect said power source to said exterior surface; (c) a feed horn, extending from said waveguide means, including a window transparent to microwave energy for receiving and radiating a pulsed, high-energy microwave radiation beam; (d) a transreflector fixedly mounted on said exterior surface arranged spaced-apart and above said feed horn and having a concave surface facing said feed horn window and formed of a plurality of electrical conductors held in parallel order in a frame; and (e) a twistreflector pivotally mounted opposite and spaced-apart from said concave surface of said transreflector and adapted to receive microwave energy reflected to it from said concave surface of said transreflector and to rotate the polarization of said microwave energy and reflect said microwave energy back to said transreflector for passing through said transreflector and forming a narrow, pencil-like beam of high-energy radiation in polarized form extending outward from said convex surface of said transreflector.