i know we can defend against at least one (if allowed to)so that should pretty much exclude NK. China on the other hand...
Posted on 06/07/2009 10:46:30 AM PDT by Perdogg
Weapons experts and techno-thriller fans are familiar with the concept of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) — a supermassive blast of electricity, usually from a nuclear blast high above ground, that fries electronic circuits for miles around, crippling computers, cars and most other modern gadgets.
Now comes word that a much smaller EMP device, or “e-bomb,” could be carried in a car, or even on someone’s person — and be used to take down an airliner.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalterroralert.com ...
ping
Read “One Second After” by William Forstchen. It’s a novel but it is scary about what an EMP could do
Guess loose lips sink ships no longer applies? Not of you but of the resource.
“Electromagnetic pulse weapons capable of frying the electronics in civil airliners can be built using information and components available on the net, warn counterterrorism analysts.
All it would take to bring a plane down would be a single but highly energetic microwave radio pulse blasted from a device inside a plane, or on the ground and trained at an aircraft coming in to land.” ........... Air France???
Shhhhh !!! Don’t tell anyone else but, . . .
Shahar says. “Once it is known that aircraft are vulnerable to particular types of disruption, it isn’t too much of a leap to build a device that can produce that sort of disruption. And much of this could be built from off-the-shelf components or dual-use technologies.”
Well, that would kinda be bad news for Free Republic...
Why finesse it? Just shot the thing down.
EMP is not Hollywood
I haven’t read the article yet, but I recall seeing a certain tech-savvy magazine printing an article about how to make your own EMP device.
This was a magazine in the waiting room at my doctor’s office. And I believe it was published within a few months of 9/11/01...
Popular mechanics already told al queda how to make Emps years ago.
A DOD Commission released a long detailed report in 2008 concerning the likely effects of a nuclear EMP.
The good news is that our cars will likely be unaffected as their electronics are already well shielded, offering protection even against direct lightning stikes. Click the link to download the full EMP Commission report is below.
I heard of a similar, smaller device in the Russian arsenal that was short-range, highly directional, and could be used to disrupt cardiac action potentials. For this reason it was said that it could induce tachcardia, arrythmia, and even induce infart?
Supposedly the Russian secret service had tried to use it on a Georgian Presidential candidate, and while it succeeded in causing a huge scare, it played out as a non-fatal attack.
infart = infarCt, heh-heh. Meaning heart attack.
An EMP event to be effective over a wide region has to be accomplished at a high altitude in order to generate the pulses and ionization need to kill an electrical or electronic grid over a wide region. This technology has been known about and planned for over many years. Even the POS 1983 movie The Day After had a depiction of a high altitude EMP burst that knocked out the electrical and communications grids. The idea is to cripple command and control communications and hopefully prevent the communication of a retaliatory order. Put the device in a car at ground level and it is just like any other nuclear blast.
I can't eat or drink my car.
Qucik skimming of report sounds pretty catastrophic to me. Food production, distibution, banking, water, fuel. I would think after three days of that, or less, all hell would break loose.
It compared the effects of an EMP to the after affects of Hurricane Katrina..Hmm, we all know how well that went.
I’m sure Bambi has an apology speech for that eventuality already loaded in his teleprompter.
i know we can defend against at least one (if allowed to)so that should pretty much exclude NK. China on the other hand...
Shahar says. “Once it is known that aircraft are vulnerable to particular types of disruption, it isn’t too much of a leap to build a device that can produce that sort of disruption. And much of this could be built from off-the-shelf components or dual-use technologies.”
We don’t have to worry about terrorism anymore. Obama’s teleprompter has made peace in the whole world and everyone loves us now.
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