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| REVEALED: The top secret MICROWAVE missile that can take out North Korea's nukes before all-out US assault |
| 2017-12-06 |
 [DailyMail] - CHAMP weapons use powerful microwave pulses to knock out electronics - White House believes missiles could play a role in fighting North Korea - Weapon could stop Kim Jong-un firing rockets by taking out control centers - Comes after dictator tested Hwasong-15 missile which can range the whole US |
| Posted by:Anomalous Sources |
| #14 Above is a response to #8 by Sock Puppeyt |
| Posted by: Knuckles Slineger2610 2017-12-06 15:13 |
| #13 < Not quite. US military systems are for the most part hardened now. The civilian power grid, etc. are not, however, and an EMP attack in one place could cascade across a lot of systems, with (impossible to predict in detail due to the high number of variables) effects far from the attack. WRT such effects, consider the impact on food supplies on the east coast if transportation, communications and the power/communications grids were fried in central California. |
| Posted by: Knuckles Slineger2610 2017-12-06 15:12 |
| #12 Check recent Cuba embassy testing. Chirps, hums and phantom noises — how bizarre events in Cuba changed embassy workers’ brains |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-12-06 13:37 |
| #11 Got to consider the target arena. Fun article from the Guardian. Enough juice to blackout city blocks, sure. Maybe just target cell towers to knock out phones. Or a beamfront intended to explode lithium batteries. Maybe just enough to make it painful to use a phone. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-12-06 13:33 |
| #10 I guess not so secret now. I've seen them mentioned in the news for about a year now. Not so secret. |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-12-06 11:44 |
| #9 Sock Puppet, conversely, a small North Korean airburst over America could do the same thing to us. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2017-12-06 10:37 |
| #8 A small airburst nuke (that is one in which the fireball does NOT touch the ground) properly deployed could knock out all of NORK's command and control and weapons systems in a millisecond. I don't think anyone would care given the number of nukes that suet face has set off in recent years. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-12-06 09:36 |
| #7 EMP. Spellchecker begone... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-12-06 08:38 |
| #6 Yeah, I think I've seen an old Marshall or Fender tube amp deliver an EMPTY on occasion... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-12-06 08:36 |
| #5 As with all EM devices, range and intensity are the key issues. An arc light that causes sunburn at a range of 1 meter is merely harsh at 10 and annoying at 20. Inverse-square distance relationship and all. It would have to get close enough to work. Now, a MASER unit (microwave laser) could work at a greater distance, but the same tracking and targeting issues as a laser come in. I was once told about a project that planned a long loiter time drone loaded with high speed heat seekers ... |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-12-06 08:36 |
| #4 ...yeah, you know that the old vacuum tube electronics are more resistant to EMP than those newfangled chippy things. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-12-06 07:23 |
| #3 There is electronics in North Korea? Really? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-12-06 01:23 |
| #2 And it can fully pop a bag of popcorn in 7.2 seconds.... from three miles away. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-12-06 00:29 |
| #1 I guess not so secret now. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2017-12-06 00:22 |