Something About the F-35’s Brand-New Radar Doesn’t Add Up — Its Massive Cooling Demands Point Straight to a Secret Microwave Weapon

Something About the F-35’s Brand-New Radar Doesn’t Add Up — Its Massive Cooling Demands Point Straight to a Secret Microwave Weapon

F-35 program leader Lieutenant General Greg Masiello delivered something of a lite-beer testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, with many questions deferred to a closed session. But the discussion (transcript here) pointed to a big and little-discussed change to air warfare technology – fighter radars so powerful that they can act as high-power microwave (HPM) weapons. And this involves not just the Lockheed Martin F-35 Light…