Abstract: A microwave magnetron having an anode assembly formed of a plurality of vanes contacting an anode cylinder and extending inwardly toward a central region containing an electron source in which the anode vanes have notches adjacent the anode cylinder into which retaining rings have been deformed to maintain the vanes in a spaced peripheral location in firm metallic contact with the anode cylinder and with the assembly brazed together by heating the assembly with a plurality of straps contacting alternate vanes adjacent their inner ends to form a unitary electrically conductive anode resonator.