A compact, lightweight, steerable, high-power, microwave weapon including a self-powered, steerable vehicle having at least one exterior antenna support surface, a self-powered, microwave radiation source mounted in the vehicle and including a waveguide to connect the power source to the exterior surface, a feed horn, extending from the waveguide means, including a window transparent to microwave energy for receiving and radiating a pulsed, high-energy microwave radiation beam, a transreflector fixedly mounted on the exterior surface arranged spaced-apart and above the feed horn and having a concave surface facing the feed horn window and formed of a plurality of electrical conductors held in parallel order in a frame, and a twistreflector pivotally mounted opposite and spaced-apart from the concave surface of the transreflector and adapted to receive microwave energy reflected to it from the concave surface of the transreflector and to rotate the polarization by 90° and reflect the microwave energy back to the transreflector for passing through the transreflector and forming a narrow, pencil-like beam of high-energy radiation in polarized form extending outward from the convex surface of the transreflector.
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