Did China use a microwave weapon against Indian soldiers?
If the PLA did employ a microwave weapon against Indian troops, this is likely the first use of the technology in combat.
An academic in China has claimed the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) employed a microwave weapon against Indian troops at Lake Pangong during the ongoing Eastern Ladakh border dispute.
Jin Canrong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing, told students in a lecture that, on 29 August, such weapons drove Indian troops from two strategic hilltops, after having ‘turned the mountain tops into a microwave oven’.
If correct, this is assumed to be the first use of microwave weapons in combat.
PLA troops allegedly set up the microwave weapons, which focus high-frequency electromagnetic pulses to cause irritation
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