EMP-the blackout bomb

[keshtopatel]

India will definitely strike back as nuclear bomb is the only source for creating EMP now,if Bangalore is EMP'd that mean Bangalore is nuked

Oh my God!

You just wasted LF´s hardwork, just revisit those posts, when you say the following:

as nuclear bomb is the only source for creating EMP

High-power microwave pulses do the job here by producing a massive surge, no need for Uranium-Plutonium cores, there is no fission or fussion!

"Any nation with even a 1940s technology base could make them," says Carlo Kopp, an Australian-based expert on high-tech warfare. "The threat of E-bomb proliferation is very real." POPULAR MECHANICS estimates a basic weapon could be built for $400.

LF, please take back your thanks baba.......

 

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The most powerful EMP bombs are hydrogen bombs and Pakistan is not known to have one. But nukes do not need to be used for a EMP bomb.

Asia Times Online :: Korea News and Korean Business and Economy, Pyongyang News

Four types of hydrogen bomb raids

The game plan for nuclear war specifies four types of thermonuclear assault: (1) the bombing of operating nuclear power stations; (2) detonations of a hydrogen bombs in seas off the US, Japan and South Korea; (3) detonations of H-bombs in space far above their heartlands; and (4) thermonuclear attacks on their urban centers.
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The third possible attack, a high-altitude detonation of hydrogen bombs that would create a powerful electromagnetic pulse (EMP), would disrupt the communications and electrical infrastructure of the US, the whole of Japan, and South Korea.

Many of the essential systems needed to survive war would be knocked out, as computers are instantly rendered malfunctioning or unusable. Military and communications systems such as radars, antennas, and missiles, government offices, would be put out of use, as would energy sources such as nuclear power stations and transport and communications systems including airports, airplanes, railways, cars and cell phones.

Ironically the ubiquity of high-tech computing gadgets in the US, Japan and South Korea has made them most vulnerable to EMP attacks.

http://www.ehow.com/about_4569901_hydrogen-bomb-damage.html

Types
# EMP conceptualized

EMP conceptualized
A high-altitude burst at around 100,000 feet would have little physical blast or radiation effect on the people beneath it. However, such a detonation would release a powerful electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) capable of frying most civilian electronics over a wide area. An air burst closer to the ground would result in heat and and radiation effects, especially on those directly under the detonation. A ground burst would create a 200-foot crater at the point of impact, kicking up huge amounts of dust and debris which would become radioactive.
Size
# The effects of a hydrogen bomb also depend on how large a device is detonated. In terms of physical damage caused by a relatively small 10-kiloton device, if one were detonated over the geographic center of Washington DC, the immediate blast and fire ball would kill everyone within one-third of a mile and destroy most buildings. A five-megaton device would kill everyone within five miles of the fireball and almost certainly destroy most of the buildings.


Read more: About Hydrogen Bomb Damage | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_4569901_hydrogen-bomb-damage.html#ixzz0zuJK9dWC

 

[Agantrope]

This is interesting

Starfish Prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

the Starfish Prime test was successfully detonated at an altitude of 400 kilometres (250 mi). The coordinates of the detonation were 16 degrees, 28 minutes North latitude, 169 degrees, 38 minutes West longitude

Starfish Prime caused an electromagnetic pulse which was far larger than expected, so much larger that it drove much of the instrumentation off scale, causing great difficulty in getting accurate measurements. The Starfish Prime electromagnetic pulse also made those effects known to the public by causing electrical damage in Hawaii, about 1,445 kilometres (898 mi) away from the detonation point, knocking out about 300 streetlights, setting off numerous burglar alarms and damaging a telephone company microwave link. The EMP-damaged microwave link shut down telephone calls from Kauai to the other Hawaiian islands.[4]

 

[keshtopatel]

bangalore is nuked

First learn the difference between the term nuked and EMPed!

The former is fissile, the later is not neccesary to be nuke enhanced.

 

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More info

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/infragard-2009/infragard-eugene-2009.pdf

Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)

 

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Non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse (NNEMP) is an electromagnetic pulse generated without use of nuclear weapons. There are a number of devices that can achieve this objective, ranging from a large low-inductance capacitor bank discharged into a single-loop antenna or a microwave generator to an explosively pumped flux compression generator. To achieve the frequency characteristics of the pulse needed for optimal coupling into the target, wave-shaping circuits and/or microwave generators are added between the pulse source and the antenna. A vacuum tube particularly suitable for microwave conversion of high energy pulses is the vircator.

NNEMP generators can be carried as a payload of bombs and cruise missiles, allowing construction of electromagnetic bombs with diminished mechanical, thermal and ionizing radiation effects and without the political consequences of deploying nuclear weapons.

The range of NNEMP weapons (non-nuclear electromagnetic bombs) is severely limited compared to nuclear EMP. This is because nearly all NNEMP devices used as weapons require chemical explosives as their initial energy source, but nuclear explosives have an energy yield on the order of one million times that of chemical explosives of similar weight. In addition to the large difference in the energy density of the initial energy source, the electromagnetic pulse from NNEMP weapons must come from within the weapon itself, while nuclear weapons generate EMP as a secondary effect, often at great distances from the detonation. These facts severely limit the range of NNEMP weapons as compared to their nuclear counterparts, but allow for more surgical target discrimination. The effect of small e-bombs has proven to be sufficient for certain terrorist or military operations. Examples of such operations include the destruction of certain fragile electronic control systems of the type critical to the operation of many ground vehicles and aircraft.

NNEMP generators also include large structures built to generate EMP for testing of electronics to determine how well it survives EMP. In addition, the use of ultra-wideband radars can generate EMP in areas immediately adjacent to the radar; this phenomenon is only partly understood.

Information about the EMP simulators used by the United States during the latter part of the Cold War, along with more general information about electromagnetic pulse, are now in papers under the care of the SUMMA Foundation, which is now hosted at the University of New Mexico.

The SUMMA Foundation web site includes documentation about the huge wooden Trestle simulator in New Mexico, which was the world's largest EMP simulator. Nearly all of these large EMP simulators used a specialized version of a Marx generator. The SUMMA Foundation now has a 44-minute documentary movie on its web site called "TRESTLE: Landmark of the Cold War".

Many large EMP simulators were also built in the Soviet Union, as well as in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy.

Post-Cold War nuclear EMP attack scenarios

Typical modern scenarios seen in large numbers of news accounts and opinion articles speculate about the use of nuclear weapons by rogue states or terrorists in an EMP attack. Details of such scenarios are always controversial. It is impossible to know what kind of capabilities such terrorists might acquire, especially if they are aided by state sponsors with access to advanced technology.

Some rogue states have developed an ability to deliver a light missile payload to the necessary altitude for an EMP attack. Nuclear weapons in general have a much heavier missile payload, however advanced weapons design enables larger weapon yields with lighter weight. It is difficult to know if any particular rogue state has the necessary combination of advanced missile technology and nuclear weapons technology to perform an effective nuclear EMP attack over an industrialized country.

A common scenario is the detonation of a device over the middle of the U.S. using long-range missiles that have historically been available only to major military powers. An offshore detonation at high altitude, by contrast, would present less technical difficulty and would disrupt both an entire coast and regions hundreds of miles inland (e.g. 120 mile altitude, 1,000 mile EMP radius).

The United States military services have developed, and in some cases have published, hypothetical EMP attack scenarios that are likely to be much more technically accurate than those that appear in the popular press.

MissileThreat :: Rumsfeld: Rogue State has Test-Launched Ship-Based Missile
http://www.iec.ch/cgi-bin/procgi.pl/...wartnum=020728
IEEE-USA Today's Engineer

 

[neo29]

More than a bomb the emp must be used more so in defence, especially in BMD, SAM's and any kind of counter measures.

 

[keshtopatel]

Jumbo being tested against EMP

 

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http://pages.uoregon.edu/joe/infragard-2009/infragard-eugene-2009.pdf

Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP).pdf

 

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http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/03/09/north-korea-nears-completion-of-emp-bomb/

North Korea nears completion of EMP bomb

Great. But where does a country with no meaningful industrial base get such technology? There's a strong hint in the article.

The North is believed to be nearing completion of an electromagnetic pulse bomb that, if exploded 25 miles above ground would cause irreversible damage to electrical and electronic devices such as mobile phones, computers, radio and radar, experts say.

"We assume they are at a considerably substantial level of development," Park Chang-kyu of the Agency for Defense Development said at a briefing to the parliament Monday.

Park confirmed that South Korea has also developed an advanced electronic device that can be deployed in times of war.

The current attempts to interfere with GPS transmissions are coming from atop a modified truck-mounted Russian device. Pyongyang reportedly imported the GPS jamming system from Russia in early 2000 and has since developed two kinds of a modified version. It has also in recent years handed out sales catalogs of them to nations in the Middle East, according to South Korea's Chosun Ilbo.

 

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Raytheon Eyes Arsenal of Directed Energy Warheads For Its Missiles


Raytheon Eyes Arsenal of Directed Energy Warheads For Its Missiles

A lineup of airborne or air-launched, directed energy, warheads is moving closer to operational reality as the need grows for weapons that can destroy enemy electronics without killing bystanders.

Raytheon, for example, is taking a close look at the development of a warhead that would fit into their existing lineup of missiles that ranges from the miniature air-launched decoy (the MALD-V with its generic 51 lb. payload) to the ship-based Standard missile series. The project will be announced June 21 at the Paris Air Show.

The effort is tied to the company's purchase of Ktech, a company with specialties in airborne electronic warfare, directed energy and pulsed power, says Mike Booen, Raytheon's vice president for advanced security and directed energy systems. Booen's organization has already developed and demonstrated a high power microwave (HPM) system that can protect airports and the airliners using them from man-portable air defense (Manpad) missiles.

Operationally, these directed energy systems are planned to solve three problems facing the U.S. military: how to avoid inflicting needless casualties, how to judge the effects of weapons that do not produce explosive or impact damage, and how to overcome anti-access and denied airspace defenses that are already being fielded around the world. Applications include medium-range ballistic missiles targeted against ships, anti-satellite weapons, cyberattack and information attack.

Programmatically, Raytheon's business strategy works around the Pentagon's reluctance to start new programs. Adm. Gary Roughead, the chief of naval operations, said "If it is not a system that is currently being procured, there is great aversion to going forward boldly. We are encumbered by an extraordinarily bureaucratic process. It is best to not have something [on the path to becoming] a program of record if you want it to move quickly."

Raytheon officials will not discuss details of Ktech's expertise, but it is known to include vulnerability assessment of enemy electronic systems, high power applications, advanced signals generation, antennas, antenna control, frequency management and deployed telemetry.

These capabilities are all needed for the development of airborne weapon systems that can analyze targets and then tailor a beam of radio frequency or high power microwaves to upset or even electronically destroy systems dependent on electronics. The beam of directed energy can be varied in width, energy output, modulation and frequency to create precise effects. Such systems also will have feedback monitoring to analyse the impact of these unseen, non-kinetic weapon.

Airframes initially expected to carry Raytheon's new non-kinetic warheads (which inflict neither impact or explosive damage) are the Tomahawk cruise missile, a weapon that is the size and shape of a HARM high-speed, anti-radiation missile and MALD-V. The last is newly redesigned for a non-specific 51-lb.warhead and sized for carriage even by light aircraft, helicopters and UAVs.

All these air-to-ground missile would be designed for use against electronic and "no-collateral damage" targets such as sophisticated command and control, communications, weapons storage and intelligence-gathering facilities that may be located in heavily populated areas. They also would be a key element in defeating anti-access and denial of entry capabilities – all based on electronic defenses – being developed by many nations including China.

Other missions for non-kinetic warhead, air-to-air missiles could be the destruction of sensors and communications on enemy combat, surveillance and intelligence gathering aircraft,

The warheads at first would likely be disposable devices for standoff electronic attack and suppression or destruction of enemy air defenses. They would first be fitted to air-to-ground weapons like Harm and Mald, and they would likely arm the F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, EA-18G Growler, the F-16CJ Wild Weasel and the B-52. Tomahawks would be ship-launched.

Later, reusable HPM devices would be sized for the larger weapons bays of X-45 and X-47-size unmanned aircraft and the F-35 or F-22.

There are both explosively-generated and pulsed energy options for the anti-electronic devices, but Raytheon will focus on the latter for its initial rapid-development program to meet the demand for non-lethal, non-collateral damage weapons that can be used to avoid civilian casualties in combat.

The technological heart of the non-kinetic, anti-electronics warhead is an array of high performance batteries and capacitors, a pulsed power generator and a high-efficiency magnetron developed by Ktech that serves as the "business end" of directed energy and anti-cyber weapons, Booen says.

 

[agentperry]

i watched a documentary in which an american scientist said that russians had developed E-bomb as big as a beer can in 1980s.

 

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i watched a documentary in which an american scientist said that russians had developed E-bomb as big as a beer can in 1980s.

Electro-magnetic Pulse (EMP) Systems

Quoting the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet (1-23-98), the news agency AFP said the high-power microwave bombs ("bear cans") could be bought on the Russian market for "several hundreds of thousands kronor" (< $150,000) and had already been bought by the Australian military among others.

 

[Tshering22]

I wonder whether our lazy politicians and bored and unrewarded government scientists are even considering something like this after 2020. The best they'd come up with is with MMS and his Owner claiming that "we're a peaceful Gandhian nation and not afraid to walk the extra mile", while USA, Russia, China and maybe even Israel would have reached the peak of E-bomb making tech.

 

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Why BP is Readying a 'Super Weapon' to Avert Escalating Gulf Nightmare - Salem-News.Com

Why BP is Readying a 'Super Weapon' to Avert Escalating Gulf Nightmare

 

[agentperry]

EMP bomb can revolutionize the battle zone. the fear of nukes and lull in nuclear power rival wil fade away as a single bomb can bring down the capability to launch it. then real conventional warfare will begin and decisive wars and solutions can be drawn. hostility and cold war things will evade

 

[kalkibhagwan]

good development

 

[roma]

This is a good question what would it take for the govt to act when a civilian area is hit?? The impact would have far reaching economic consequences. Does Pakistan have EMP capability?? And what would retaliaton if any be??

my reckoning is that packland should come to its senses ( as i think the more rational elements within them would by now ) that their military is defence only . any bigtime ideas of being more can v easily be dealt with - they aer just too vulnerable .

 

[roma]

i watched a documentary in which an american scientist said that russians had developed E-bomb as big as a beer can in 1980s.

gives a whole new meaning to a 6-pack !