Posted on 03/11/2014 4:58:32 PM PDT by Kartographer
Weapons designers specializing in high-energy physics can now create electromagnetic pulses without going into outer space. One approach involves harnessing the force of a conventional explosion. Others are simply just modifications of radar, which bounces pulses of energy off aircraft in flight, vehicles on the ground, and other objects.
Crank up the power and you have an EMP weapon, ready to point at the computers of your favorite enemy.This knowledge has set off a new arms race. Whether fitted into cruise missiles or parked at the side of the road in a van, non-nuclear EMP weapons have the potential to devastate the electronic systems of areas as large as a city or as small as a selected building, all without being seen, heard, or felt by a single soul.
It is a dream come true for any and all terrorists.
Sound far-fetched? It did not in 1993 to the owners of automobiles parked about 300 meters from a U.S. Defense Contractor’s EMP generator test site at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Their alternators and electronic engine controls were accidentally fried by a pulse during classified field trials.
Source: Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin
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I suspect you believe what reportedly happened at Eglin AFB as fact and do not believe what I have been trying to say to multiple posters on this thread that the rumor doesn't make sense because an alternator is not going to get cooked in such rumored situation and engine control electronics that are still factory grounded and shielded probably won't be cooked either.
There is a real flux capacitor.
It does not look like that picture.
Problem is, if you let off an EMP it would be instantaneously detectable. The whole world outside the affected area would know within about 15 minutes. It’s immediately detectable by satellite.
As I suspected.
“The frame of the truck is your ground for the arc you don’t need a battery.”
Well duh... The truck frame is ground because it’s connected to the ground side if your welder. The electrical circuit is between the welding tip and the ground side of the welder. Which, BTW, doesn’t actually have to be connected to earth ground for it to work. With mobile
We had a house get hit by lightning and the whole house had to be rewired.”
A lightning strike hitting your house is not EMP. EMP is an induced power serge not a conducted one, although the pulse can be conducted once it’s induced. The static you hear on an AM radio during a thunder storm is an EM Pulse or pulses.
“With mobile”
I started to say and I got distracted, With mobile gas driven welders, there is often no earth ground.
It’s about the microprocessors. They are in almost everything now. THAT’s what get’s fried, not the “generator” itself.
The ignorance on this thread re EMP is a little disturbing. Not using the word in a derogatory manner...ignorance is just that you don’t know.
In short, EMP fries microprocessors. They are in almost everything. Beyond that, I hope folks will do a little reading.
In the meantime, here’s something to digest. Note the date and then contemplate the advances.
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PRESS RELEASE
Russians Hail EMP/Beam-Weapon Breakthrough
May 12, 2007 (EIRNS)—The work of Russian scientists in developing electromagnetic pulses (EMP) to be used against enemy military equipment, “surpasses foreign counterparts by 10 times,” according to a report published yesterday by the Russian news agency Novosti.
The report, by an academic advisor at the Academy of Engineering Sciences, Yuriy Zaitsev, speaks of a breakthrough in relativistic high-precision electronics, with miltiary applications, that “has no counterparts in the world.”
Development of EMP effect weapons for neutralizing electronic communications devices, and high-energy beam weapons which can be used for anti-missile, anti-satellite and anti-personnel applications, was a key part of the Ogarkov war plan which the Soviet Union had pursued in the 1980s.
According to Zaitsev, scientists in several places in Russia have developed generators which can produce brief, high-energy pulses of hundreds and even thousands of megawatts, the equivalent of the electric power output of a modern nuclear plant. The impulses can be generated at a very high frequency. These “super-powerful pulse generators” are small in size, and have “unique physical properties [which] make their sphere of application extremely wide,” Zaitsev wrote.
The first high-current electron accelerators were developed in the Soviet Union in the 1960s, according to Gennadiy Mesyats, who is Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A decade later, scientists could generate powerful microwave nanosecond pulses.
Scientists reported their new results to the Academy of Sciences at the beginning of 2007. The generators can be used in “long-range high-resolution impulse-based radiolocation and in studies of non-thermal impact of powerful electromagnetic fields on radio electronic components and different biological species.”
No way! Didn’t realize it was that bad.
How so?
Perhaps it was the embedded voltage regulator that fried, not the altenator itself.
An alternator in a vehicle has diodes (Usually 6) that are vulnerable to any voltage spike (as low as 250 volts.) Every alternator that I have seen the inside of was like this. Generators have brushes that did what the diodes now do.
If you had an old vehicle with points type ignition you could downgrade to a generator.
However, I think that the fine wire inside an ignition coil may be vulnerable to an EMP.
I keep the spares in my Faraday cage. Totally protected.
The voltage regulator is a high power device.
Thanks! I’d heard the title before but I didn’t know anything about it.
You have monitoring stations for nuclear detonations that are operated by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, as well as individual monitoring stations operated by various nations. The DOD refers to that type of detection as Nuclear MASINT. The monitoring stations are how we knew that North Korea did an actual test...and what the real results of that test was as opposed to what the NKs said.
The principles that produce an EMP blast produce the same type of signals in the electromagnetic spectrum that nuclear detonations do. The only thing that wouldn’t be detected was radiation, because an EMP blast won’t produce an atomic signature. The UK had a device called AWDREY in the Cold War that was used to monitor for nuclear blasts; it would often pick up the EMP bursts from thunderstorms.
Then we have the VELA HOTEL satellites and the IONDS systems on the MILSTAR satellites, both run by the DOD. They monitor for nuclear explosions and EMP blasts from orbit. If anything like that had been picked up, the military would know by now.
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