Weapon KALI (Kilo Ampere Linear Injector) India’s Secret weapon

• KALI 5000 is India’s self defence weapon which is under development. It can stop missiles, air crafts, enemy satellites anything with an electric circuit inside it.
• It is designed to work in such a way that if a missile is launched in India’s direction,then it will quickly emit powerful pulses of Relativistic Electrons Beams (REB) which will fry and destroys enemy’s electric circuit and the computer chip.

Project & Design of weapon kali

• The idea for KALI, or this technology was first raised in the year 1985 by Dr. Chidambaram, and work began on the Project in the year 1989.
• The KALI has been developed by the Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO) and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).It had been initially developed for industrial applications, although defense applications became clearer later.

Development of KALI

• The first Accelerator had a power of ~ 0.4 gigawatts, which increased as later version was developed, which are the KALI 80, KALI 200. KALI 1000, KALI 5000 and KALI 10000.
• The KALI is was expected to be ready by 2004, but later it had passed through many tests and many other versions than KALI 5000 are produced and tested.

Specifications of KALI

• The KALI-5000 is a pulsed accelerator of 1 MeV electron energy, 50-100 ns pulse time, 40kA Current and 40 GW Power level.
• The system is quite bulky as well, with the KALI-5000 weighing 10 tons, and the KALI-10000, weighing 26 tons. They are also very power hungry, and require a cooling tank of 12,000 liters of oil.
• Recharging time is also too long to make it a viable weapon in its present form.

How KALI Works

• The KALI emits powerful pulses of electrons Relativistic Electron Beams (REB). These electron pulses are about 100 ns with an energy of about 1 MeV.
• These electrons are converted into Electromagnetic Radiation, which can be adjusted to x-ray (as Flash X-Rays) or microwave (High Power Microwave) frequencies with this microwaves KALI will be used as High Power Microwave gun.

Main Features or Uses of KALI

• KALI a High Power Microwave gun produces a high amount of microwaves. When these burst of 1000 million gigawatts microwaves aimed at any enemy missile or aircraft it destroys there electronics circuit and computers chip of missile or aircraft, these completely paralyzes computer system and bring them down.
• These electrostatic shields will be used to protect the electronic circuit against Electromagnetic Impulses (EMI) generated by nuclear weapons and other cosmic disturbances.
• This electrostatic shield will use for protecting LCA Tejas. The satellite also will be using this electrostatic shields. application of KALI in defence field will take some time.
• The system is still under development, and efforts are being made to make it more compact, as well as improve its recharge time, which, at the present, makes it only a single use system.

Speculations:

• India is believed to have already conducted a successful test. There had been unconfirmed reports blaming India for the Siachen glacier avalanche in 2012 which has caused the death of around 135 Pakistani soldiers which the sources claim as a result of KALI’s successful test melting the hard ice sheets.
• There have been reports of placing the weaponized KALI in an IL-76 aircraft as an airborne defense system.
• Government of India has denied to give any information on this project due to its sensitiveness for national security.