The Perfect Weapon ?
TorresD
IT SOUNDS like the perfect weapon.
Without fracturing a single brick or spilling a drop of blood,
it could bring a city to its knees. The few scientists who are
prepared to talk about it speak of a sea change in how wars
will be fought.
Even in peacetime, the same technology
could bring mayhem to our daily lives.
This weapon is so simple to make, scientists say, it
wouldn't take a criminal genius to put one together and
wreak havoc.
Some believe attacks have started already, but because the
weapon leaves no trace it's a suspicion that's hard to prove.
The irony is that it's our love of technology
itself that makes us so vulnerable.
This perfect weapon is the electromagnetic bomb, or e-bomb.
The idea behind it is simple. Produce a high-power flash
of radio waves or microwaves and it will fry any circuitry it hits.
At lower powers, the effects are more subtle:
it can throw electronic systems into chaos,
often making them crash.
In an age when electronics finds its way into just about
everything bar food and bicycles, it is a sure way to cause
mass disruption.
Panic the financial markets and you could make
a killing as billions are wiped off share values.
You could freeze transport systems, bring down
communications, destroy computer networks.
It's swift, discreet and effective.
Right now, talk of the threat of these weapons
is low-key, and many want it to stay that way.
But in some circles, concern is mounting.
Last month, James O'Bryon, the deputy director of
Live Fire Test & Evaluation at the US Department of
Defense flew to a conference in Scotland to address the issue.
"What we're trying to do is look at what people might
use if they wanted to do something damaging," he says.
With good reason, this is about as much as O'Bryon is happy to divulge.
E-bombs may already be part of the military arsenal.
According to some, these weapons were used during
NATO's campaign against Serbia last year to knock out
radar systems.
So do they really exist?
"Lots of people are doing lots of work to
protect against this type of thing," says Daniel Nitsch
of the German Army Scientific Institute for Protection Technology
in Muster, Lower Saxony.
"You can make your own guess."
Interest in electromagnetic weapons was triggered
half a century ago, when the military were testing something
a lot less subtle.
"If you let a nuclear weapon off, you get a huge electromagnetic pulse,"
says Alan Phelps of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
If this pulse hits electronic equipment, it can induce currents
in the circuitry strong enough to frazzle the electronics.
"It can destroy all computers and communications for miles," says Phelps.
Bill Bonde
TorresD wrote:
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> This perfect weapon is the electromagnetic bomb, or e-bomb.
>
> The idea behind it is simple. Produce a high-power flash
> of radio waves or microwaves and it will fry any circuitry it hits.
>
> At lower powers, the effects are more subtle:
>
> it can throw electronic systems into chaos,
> often making them crash.
>
I hear Bill Gates includes one of these with every box of Windows.
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Anthony Stephen Szopa
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> http://www.newscientist.com/features/features_224520.html
> IT SOUNDS like the perfect weapon.
>
> Without fracturing a single brick or spilling a drop of blood,
> it could bring a city to its knees. The few scientists who are
> prepared to talk about it speak of a sea change in how wars
> will be fought.
>
> Even in peacetime, the same technology
> could bring mayhem to our daily lives.
>
> This weapon is so simple to make, scientists say, it
> wouldn't take a criminal genius to put one together and
> wreak havoc.
>
> Some believe attacks have started already, but because the
> weapon leaves no trace it's a suspicion that's hard to prove.
>
> The irony is that it's our love of technology
> itself that makes us so vulnerable.
>
>
> The idea behind it is simple. Produce a high-power flash
> of radio waves or microwaves and it will fry any circuitry it hits.
>
> At lower powers, the effects are more subtle:
>
> it can throw electronic systems into chaos,
> often making them crash.
>
The defense for your electronics equipment is called shielding. But
there must be billions of critical unshielded electronics equipment
and components around the world today.
What individuals should be worried about is their own unprotected /
unshielded bodies.
You could be driving along winding roads high in the mountains. As
you are making a hair-pin turn just above a thousand foot drop, a
black helicopter high above and to your rear zaps you and your vehicle
with a numbing pulse of EM energy tuned to disrupt your
nervous system.
You are instantly but momentarily rendered unconscious. Your
vehicle CRASHES through the roadside barrier then WHOOSH, you and
your family or friends go flying out over and down a steep cliff.
If you are unlucky, you will awake to SCREAMS and the RUSH of air
through your opened windows as you are pressed back in your seat
accelerating into the blackness where large pines and jagged rocks
rush up to smash, crush, and rip your frail body.
Happens all the time.
NICKODEMOS
even local disruption of people's daily lives it would require a massive
amount of energy. The government at this time has many idea's and theories
on making many different types of weapons and defensive items as well. BUT
the kicker is a power supply. Not much good are these weapons when you need
them attached to the Hoover Dam now is it. Do some research before you go on
a wild snipe hunt.
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imago@nospam@switchboard.net
Bill Bonde
Always remember, if you are going snipe hunting, do it at the beach.
Bill Bonde
xona wrote:
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> Gary bauer, Jerry falwell, Pat Robertson, Trent Lott, Helen Chenowith,
> Phys-ed Laura Schlesinger, Linda Tripp, Lucianne Goldberg, Barbara Olson,
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> xona
> weapons specialist
>
Yea, xona an offensive weapons specialist.
xona
Anthony Stephen Szopa
>
> Think about this guy. For there to be an object that would do mass or
> even local disruption of people's daily lives it would require a massive
> amount of energy. The government at this time has many idea's and theories
> on making many different types of weapons and defensive items as well. BUT
> the kicker is a power supply. Not much good are these weapons when you need
> them attached to the Hoover Dam now is it. Do some research before you go on
> a wild snipe hunt.
>
> NICKODEMOS
> imago@nospam@switchboard.net
I don't know exactly who you are referring to but have you ever
heard of the HIGH FREQUENCY ACTIVE AURORAL RESEARCH PROGRAM?
Possible ideas are to generate a massive electrical field in the
billions of watts powerful enough to obliterate the electronics
of any electronic device passing through this powerful field, perhaps
MIRVs.
It turns out that this device can also raise the ionosphere thus
effecting the weather.
Also, by energizing the ionosphere with the proper frequency, the
ionosphere can be made into effectively an RF reflective surface.
Thus, RF energy of sufficient strength and of the appropriate
frequency can be reflected from one location where all the antennas
are located to a distant and large geographic area. This RF energy
has the purpose of disrupting human bodily systems and their
functions, such as the nervous system. Its possible use is to
disrupt all enemy soldiers over a wide geographic area effecting
their metabolism and mental functions.
Yes, certain applications would take from lots to enormous amounts
of energy.
But why not a short burst of intense directed EM energy designed to
target one person or a small group of people?
I think by now this is a slam dunk probability.
Mika-Petri Lauronen
Most of the wars in the world are still fought with AK-47:s and
machetes. The E-bomb has no effect against them.
The ultimate weapon is, of course, a human being. It has been, and
will be, the factor that will decide any war in the future, too.
NICKODEMOS
is the human mind. Now as for concentrating the wave in a certain area. You
still would need massive amount of power regardless of how concentrated you
wanted the field to be. It all has to do with physics. The more power you
give the something the longer\power the object (in this case the energy
wave) will be. The government is already working on hand held EMF
(Electromagnetic Field) hand carried weapons. Best example of what they can
do is if you seen the movie Eraser with Arnie in it. But this still it is
not a viable weapon because of the power needed. Once we can get zero
friction semiconducting elements where no energy is lost we will be on the
first step to these silent weapons. Till then quit worrying about so called
super weapons. What you need to be looking at is the new visor setup and
body armor the military has created for the inf soldier. VERY impressive
stuff.
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NICKODEMOS
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