A distinctive feature of electromagnetic weapons is the absence of human casualties - only the enemy's electronic equipment is deactivated.
The development of the mobile electronic warfare system "Ranets-E" began in Russia in the 1990s. The complex is a combat electromagnetic generator of high power, incapacitating enemy ground and air equipment, as well as missiles. "Knapsack-E" generates a pulse in the centimeter range, lasting about 20 nanoseconds and power up to 500 MW. The system is equipped with two antennas: on 45 and 50 decibel.
The first is capable of issuing a radiation angle of 60 ° and is designed to hit high-speed targets. The second antenna directs the pulse at an angle of 20 °, burning all electronics at a distance 15 kilometers and causing disruptions in its work at distances 15-40 km. The complex is based on the MAZ-7310 four-axle chassis. For the first time "Knapsack-E" was demonstrated in 2001 year at the exhibition "LIMA" in Malaysia.
A clear disadvantage of the complex is its low operating range - it can only be used to protect individual objects. To defeat enemy vehicles at long distances, from 2011 Alabuga rocket is being developed in Russia. The work is carried out in the scientific center "Radioelectronic Technologies" in the strictest secrecy.
"Alabuga" should fly at an altitude of about 300 meters and generate an electromagnetic pulse with a power of up to 1000 MW, disabling all electronics within a radius of several kilometers. There are no analogues of such weapons in China., nor in the USA.
