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找到一本关于雷达发展史的实体书记载日本对死光(Ku-go, Death Ray)的发展:
Radar Origins Worldwide: History of Its Evolution in 13 Nations Through World War II (Trafford Publishing, 2009) by Raymond C. Watson Jr, 334-5:
The Ku-go (Death Ray) was another matter. An Article on a death-ray device invented by Nikola Tesla had been in The New York Times (July 11, 1934), and was picked up by the Japanese press. In this, Tesla was quoted as saying that his beam would "drop an army in its tracks and bring down squadrons of airplanes 250 miles away." Magnetron research at the NTRI and JRC appeared to indicate that a beam device with tremendous output power might be possible.
In 1943, work began at the Shimada City research facility on developing a high-power magnetron that, if not as capable as Tesla had boasted, could at least incapacitate an aircraft. A number of Japan's leading physicists were involved in this activity, including Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, another future Nobel laureate. By the end of the war, their effort had produced a 20-cm magnetron with a continuous output of 100 kW, far short of the desired 500 kW, which itself would likely have been insufficient for the mission. Like other Project Z efforts, documentation was totally destroyed before Japan surrendered.
大意是说在1943年,包括诺贝尔奖得主朝永振一郎在内的团队开始研发,并曾造出一具20cm波长100Kw功率的磁控管(magnetron),规格离他们以为可以使飞机失能(incapacitate)的500Kw差距还很大。如同Z计划其他项目,文件在投降前都销毁了。 |
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