Posted on 11/05/2015 8:37:50 AM PST by BenLurkin
This weapon is designed to disrupt the activity of any electronic device found in the blast radius. The EMP blast affects only electronic equipment, without harming humans, animals, plants or infrastructures. Such a weapon offers a great deal of precision, so that only buildings or rooms with military equipment can be targeted and there is no destruction or collateral damage done. This is crucial in modern warfare, because the fighting takes place in urban locations where conventional ammunition can easily injure noncombatants.
The joint project is known as “CHAMPâ€, which stands for Counter-electronics High-powered Advanced Missile Project. It started a few years ago and preliminary tests yielded promising results. In 2012 it was reported that during a test in Utah, a CHAMP mission managed to disable seven different targets in a single flight. This proved the weapon’s high precision and that it can accurately focus the EMP blast at a single structure or building. The drone shaped missile flew over several structures for one hour and irreparably disabled the electronics from the targeded buildings.
Modern weapons like the EMP missile usher in a new age in warfare, where the goal is to incapacitate the enemy, to shut down his communications and reduce the number of casualties to minimum. There are no reports, so far, regarding the effect of CHAMP’s EMP blast on military-hardened electronics. Military equipment has a higher degree of protection against the elements and the electronics inside them are protected by a shield against electromagnetic interference.
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How soon until this technology gets into the hands of our enemies (if not already)? Secondly, how soon until they USE it when they get it?
it might be a newer version, but the u.s. has a b52-load of emp weapons, just like all the other major powers ...
Direct it at DC. It can only improve things.
Can I build a house with a Faraday cage, but also where my cell phone and wireless internet can still function? lol
Sounds like they’re working a drone-mounted one that can be aimed at a specific target.
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it’s well known in military circles that an x-band rf signal can cook electronics (like a microwave) ... which, is in fact, how the “microwave oven” was discovered in the first place ...
it’s all about “power”, and putting it on a weight-limited drone may nigh well be impossible ...
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I’m sure obama will give this tech to the Russians and Chinese, you know just to be fair.
What if one has a pacemaker?
Meh. I have one on my rear bumper. Stops cops cold...
He won't waste time with that. He'll use it on the hated Americans as soon as he can come up with a cheap excuse.
The Russians already have very sophisticated EMP weapons.
If this is used in urban areas, hospitals better move into the country. Every person on a ventilator or other life support equipment will die. Not to mention public safety agencies, public utilities... the entire infrastructure and
On occupying the city, troops will be marching into the age of steam and will have to set up an electronic infrastructure for themselves, and be burdened with rebuilding an entirely new one for the occupied city.
Not as clean and efficient as it looks on paper, in my opinion.
Get a steel metal garbage can with lid. Line the inside completely with cardboard and other non-conductive materials. Do the same for the lid except allow the rim to have metal contact with the can on the outside. Then place your electronic equipment inside. Those are duplicates or spares, as you can't operate them inside the garbage can. Seal the lid edge to the outside of the can with conductive tape. Now your electronics will be safe when the EMP hits. You might want to wait a day, in case the enemy hits us twice. An EMP will conduct the charge on the outside surface to the ground.
But good luck trying to connect your cell phone and internet equipment to anyone else! The can will allow you to set up a home entertainment system to enjoy movies and archived content, as well as replacement electronics for a generator and your vehicles, cb-radios, electronic tools etc.
I think you might have answered my question but in any case, if my electronics are shut off will it still damage them?
A microwave oven is a Faraday cage, you can store some of your items in an old one. Be sure not to turn it on though.
I was thinking along the lines of my car electronics
Yes, even if shut off. Several components of an EMP blast, the first two within line of sight. An E1 pulse component of EMP will burn out unshielded micro-electronics by creating very high voltages in them and burn them out in nanoseconds. Surge protectors won't help, and it'll cause damage even if electronics aren't plugged in. What is bad, is that an E1 pulse will fry surge protectors, allowing the slower E2 pulse to destroy circuits that are plugged in. An E3 pulse will damage electronics connected to the grid not within line of sight of an EMP weapon, by traveling along the grid far away. If unplugged, the electronics are protected from E3.
You can induce currents in coils of wire near each other, to convert one voltage level to another level voltage, as in transformers. An EMP blast does the same, inducing a very high voltage in the circuitry of electronics beyond what they can handle - even if shut off. That's why you need to shield critical components where external pulses are diverted to ground.
As soon as they pass the training ... sounds like the CIA is thinking of giving the Syrian “moderate” extremists Patriot batteries so they can shoot down commercial planes ... next up, SM-1 goes on the auction block.
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