just what i've been saying for, well, years... make them ALL live in the dark for the next five or ten years till they get their minds right
Posted on 10/09/2017 2:18:28 PM PDT by Red Badger
South Korea is ready to deploy graphite bombs - also known as "blackout bombs" - that will paralyse North Korea's electrical power plants in the event of war breaking out on the peninsula.
Blackout bombs were first used by the United States in Iraq in the 1990 Gulf War and work by releasing a cloud of extremely fine, chemically treated carbon filaments over electrical components. The filaments are so fine that they act like a cloud, but cause short circuits in electrical equipment.
South Korea is actively looking to increase its defensive capabilities against the North and has been keen to develop graphite bombs because they are not lethal to civilians in surrounding areas.
The weapons have been developed by South Korea's Agency for Defence Development, Yonhap news agency reported, as one element of the Kill Chain pre-emptive strike programme.
"All technologies for the development of a graphite bomb led by the ADD have been secured", a military official said. "It is at the stage where we can build the bombs at any time".
South Korea is bringing forward the deployment of its "three pillars" of national defence by as much as three years as a result of the growing threat posed by Pyongyang's nuclear and missile development programmes.
The three-pronged strategy was originally scheduled to be in place by the mid-2020s, but North Korea's increasingly aggressive and unpredictable behaviour has forced Seoul to revise that timeline.
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That’s ok. It will come out of my shirt. ;)
As an electrical engineer, I have considered this concept for years. I have kept my big mouth shut for obvious reasons.....
NK is already blacked out.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140226-north-korea-satellite-photos-darkness-energy/
How do disable communication lines when they use tin cans and string?
Worker’s paradise of North Korea use people’s electricity more efficient than rest of world. Rest of world evil. North Korea good! /s
just what i've been saying for, well, years... make them ALL live in the dark for the next five or ten years till they get their minds right
looks like it already worked.
You captured my thoughts as well.
HVDC—underground tunnels?
Coal dust explosion set off by electrical arc?
Seriously, this is a great way to avoid collateral damage. Used on North Korea it really will only target the government and military.
Here he is in his bedroom
Even the oceans off South Korea and Japan have more lights than North Korea’s land.
I remember seeing a satellite view of NK at night it was dark
Grinding up one standard issue Ticonderoga should yield enough graphite to get the job done.
So in the 1970’s I was stationed at Luke AFB, VA. The F-15 fleet had been deployed there to begin training. One day a crew chief did a runup of an Eagle and it jumped the chocks, crashed and burned. Soon the power went out on the Base. Thus was born the “Corker”.
“WHAT electrical grid?”
The one that triggers the nuclear weapons.
I believe they are trying to plan for a negative impact on North Korea’s missiles aimed at the South.
No offense, but do the NORKS really have much of an electrical grid?
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