{"id":134578,"date":"2025-08-15T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134578"},"modified":"2025-08-15T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:00:08","slug":"why-this-small-vacuum-tube-can-be-chinas-big-advantage-in-electronic-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134578","title":{"rendered":"Why this small vacuum tube can be China\u2019s big advantage in electronic warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn a defence tech laboratory in Beijing, a research team powers up a vacuum tube about the size of a pistol.<br \/>\nInside, a stream of electrons surges through thin coiled wires, amplifying microwave pulses ranging from 8 to 18 gigahertz with more than 500 watts of output \u2013 performance metrics that until recently were only achievable in devices much bigger.<br \/>\nIt is the new heart of China\u2019s advanced radar and electronic warfare systems \u2013 a miniaturised travelling-wave tube (TWT), and a symbol of how&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3322028\/why-small-vacuum-tube-can-be-chinas-big-advantage-electronic-warfare?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn a defence tech laboratory in Beijing, a research team powers up a vacuum tube about the size of a pistol. Inside, a stream&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}