Preppers’ PING!!
The antidote is called a Faraday cage. All good preppers keep sensitive electronics in it. And keeping a spare computer and ignition box for your F150 in there is a great idea as well.
Yes it does sounds far fetched. A modern alternator shouldn't fry any more than one from a `68 Ford.
As far as other engine controls go, the engine compartment of an automobile is an extremely harsh environment. Perhaps if there was already a grounding problem something might get cooked. If the grounding is good, why should it cook? Since when do repair shops take great precautions when welding on a vehicle?
I wonder if a hacker could get into the plane's computer and shut off the pilots and take over the plane?
Either way, this level of silence from government? You know it's deep doo-doo.
Like, maybe it's "already happened"...
http://www.aipnews.com/talk/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=18224
Diehl...German Briefcase EMP device
Figure 2-6 (above) of the Meta-R-323 report shows a picture of a German-made “briefcase weapon” that can produce a directed EMP beam. That weapon was demonstrated in 2004. If such a weapon was revealed openly six years ago, then it is entirely possible for a foreign government to have such a directed-EMP weapon that could be mounted aboard a submarine. In the introduction of that same report, it asserts that an aircraft fire aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal during the Vietnam War was caused when a radar antenna was accidentally directed at a fighter aircraft, and then that aircraft’s weapon system accidentally fired its missile at another fighter jet on the flight deck. (This was the fire that burned now-Senator John McCain.) If a crude and accidental EMP incident could trigger an unintentional missile launch more than 40 years ago, then an intentional EMP incident using the most modern technology could cripple a cruise ship today. And, if a naval vessel is equipped with the same electrical system as the cruise ship, then the naval vessel would be equally vulnerable.
Transponder was off, ACARS was off, plane makes a big left turn.....and “disappears”....
Yeah, it was an EMP weapon. Or maybe a UFO!
Occam’s razor is still sharp.
They have plans how to make one of these on the internet - hardest part to find is the REALLY BIG capacitor you need ...
Or maybe...just maybe Malaysia f***ing Airlines didn’t properly maintain an incredibly complex aircraft and it failed the way incredibly complex systems do when neglected.
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The Diehl company briefcase sized EMP weapon can be purchased for around $40K.
Easily timed and stored in baggage or even carried onboard and stowed in the overhead near the CPUs.
Lights out, no connection to the outside world, all instrumentation, flight controls, no nada....
Can these planes be flown dead stick?
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.
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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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.”