US May Debut Secret Microwave 'Pulse' Weapon Versus Iraq

Reuters News Wire ^ | Feb. 2, 2003 | Will Dunham

[Orion78]

Microwave Bomb our Secret Weapon (1/27/03)

[Archangelsk]

"Incidentally, active jammers make great homing beacons"

Absolutly the redlegs can put a 155 HE on you in seconds.

dozer

Provided the ELINT guys capture the signal and triangulate to the target.

[EGPWS]

This makes me nervous. The fact is: the US Armed Forces are more dependent on electronics than any other country, and this is the last weapon we ought to want to see being used. All of these weapons become available to others after a while. Every measure has a potential counter-measure. By the time our enemies have it, we will have perfected the counter-measure.

The game isn't "who has the best gadgets." It is "who has the will and the wealth to continue to run the race of scientific R&D the fastest and the longest."

Why would it make you nervous? Most everything we have abtained in the last 100yrs has been available to others eventually. We saved many American lives in WWII with nuclear weapons, other countries have them now, however they didn't have them at the time. It was an American life saving tool which worked to end the war. We don't depend on electronics, we use them as a tool and asset, and we are the best at doing so.
Yes, I agree PC! Everything does have a counter. I agree, it is a race and with our R&D we will always win that race. If we stiffled technology because of concern of who may abtain it evetually we would all still be living in caves!

[Polybius]

....generates a massive electromagnetic pulse capable of frying the inside of digital electronic systems...

If the Iraqis are running Windows ME, how will they be able to tell the difference?

[EGPWS]

If the Iraqis are running Windows ME, how will they be able to tell the difference?

by sending an automatic error report to MS! ha ha

[Future Useless Eater]

EVERYTHING uses integrated circuits and electrical components these days!

and in a few years every GUN in America will have Integrated Circuits too! Maryland already passed this law. Governments want to disable all guns easily

[LaGrone]

Before it fries the electronics the item is speeded up after being hit with this wave. I'll leave the impression of this in regards to Muhammeds' wifes' vibrator to your imagination. LMAO!!!

[lawdude]

My niece just e-mailed me and told me they have closed all WalMarts and K-Marts in Iraq. They were reopened as "Targets".

Hey, it was new to me.

[DoughtyOne]

Groan ;)

[Vinnie]

Haven't we developed an airborne laser, originally for knocking out incoming missiles?
If I remember correctly, this was mounted in a 747.

Now if the 'gun' was mounted in the belly instead of top, it could be used against ground targets.

[Stultis]

Liberals won't like this

I'm not sure I like it either. We are more vulnerable to this type of weapon than most of our enemies. I'm reluctant to get the bad guys thinking about such devices, or to legitimate their use or production. At the very least, whoever is talking about these secret weapons needs to shut the f*** up.

[expatpat]

Most of our military electronics are hardened against EMP because of the fear of a nuclear weapon's EMP effects.

Some of it, not most of it.

[expatpat]

No it wouldn't stop others ever using EMP, but our using it will hasten the time others use it. The guys who ride around on camels and donkeys (remember Afghanistan) are much better adapted to non-electronic combat.

[Grampa Dave]

I understand that it will also micro wave all of the personal weiners of Islamofacists and Islamokazis with a special DNA sensor targeting device.

[Grampa Dave]

Here is a picture of Mrs Achmed's vibrator:

[Numbers Guy]

Some of it, not most of it.

I was referring to our key systems, radar, aircraft, etc., the ones needed to guarantee a credible second strike in a nuclear exchange. My apologies for not being specific enough.

The point, of course, is that we are way ahead of the rest of the world in hardening our systems. By the time any rival nation is anywhere near developing a system capable of frying our electronics, we'll be insulated enough to be safe.

The fact is that nobody else puts as much into military R&D as the U.S. and by the time some of these other folks catch up we'll be a couple more moves ahead, on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ledger.

[metacognative]

What powers the EM pulse?

[irish guard]

Perhaps Achmed's wife got the "special" treatment with the pulse weapon...on the other hand, it might have just been Achmed with his "pulse weapon"....if you know what i mean!!!

[irish guard]

you can only hope that if Achmed's wife uses the Clinton vibrator, that it shakes all the lies out of her......

[NeonKnight]

I used to work for a company that manufactured test equipment for the Singars (freq. hopping) radios. Our biggest obstacle was developing a local oscilator that would stabilize fast enough to catch the constantly changing RF freq. The software was a piece of cake, but you have physical laws you have to live with on the RF side. Of course this was 15 years ago. Digital Signal Processing (DSP)has come a long way since then. In fact, if your kid can't throw a fast ball, it is a very lucrative business to get into.