Author Topic: 2 billion watts (Read 630 times)

weazel · « **on:** January 20, 2003, 02:08:16 PM »

mietla · « **Reply #1 on:** January 20, 2003, 02:19:09 PM »

Sure it can, what's your point?

SOB · « **Reply #2 on:** January 20, 2003, 02:25:05 PM »

Hmmm...I wonder how fast that thing could cook a bag of popcorn?

SOB

CMC Airboss · « **Reply #3 on:** January 20, 2003, 02:26:51 PM »

Incredible-

"The HPM is a top-secret program, and the Pentagon wants to keep it that way. "

Yet Time magazine feels compelled to write and publish an article that details its existance and potential uses.

Airboss

eskimo2 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 20, 2003, 02:30:24 PM »

Cool weapon.
It will essentially save lives on both sides.

eskimo

Modas · « **Reply #5 on:** January 20, 2003, 02:36:21 PM »

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Originally posted by CMC Airboss
Incredible-

"The HPM is a top-secret program, and the Pentagon wants to keep it that way. "

Yet Time magazine feels compelled to write and publish an article that details its existance and potential uses.

Airboss

hehehe, MiG,

I was thinking the EXACT same thing.... boneheads...

Tarmac · « **Reply #6 on:** January 20, 2003, 02:48:36 PM »

Popular Mechanics had a cover story about a similar weapon about a year ago, and you saw a Hollywood-ized version in "Ocean's Eleven." I'm sure some of the technology is new, as is the use in a cruise missile, but the idea of incapacitating electronics with a huge EM pulse isn't.

Rude · « **Reply #7 on:** January 20, 2003, 03:37:15 PM »

I've been using this technology for 2 years at home....son's guitar too loud? Whammo!!! Problem solved.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #8 on:** January 20, 2003, 03:38:55 PM »

Rude, was that you that disturbed my recording session the other day?
cripes... I thought I had the headphones on....

Animal · « **Reply #9 on:** January 20, 2003, 03:46:46 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by CMC Airboss
Incredible-

"The HPM is a top-secret program, and the Pentagon wants to keep it that way. "

Yet Time magazine feels compelled to write and publish an article that details its existance and potential uses.

Airboss

You think they would be publishing this information without the .gov wanting them to?

Wlfgng · « **Reply #10 on:** January 20, 2003, 03:50:04 PM »

it's very old news/technology

whgates3 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 21, 2003, 02:19:47 AM »

spy magazine had an article about it maybe 10 years ago...

midnight Target · « **Reply #12 on:** January 21, 2003, 09:52:40 AM »

IIRC, there were all kinds of stories about the antiquated electronics in that Soviet mig-25 that defected a while ago. Turns out the Soviets were anticipating the EMP and had put in the old circuitry because they thought it would withstand the pulse created by an atomic blast.

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #13 on:** January 21, 2003, 09:58:26 AM »

MT that sig has to be a joke, right?

Boroda · « **Reply #14 on:** January 21, 2003, 10:27:36 AM »

HPMs can unleash in a flash as much electrical power—2 billion watts or more—as the Hoover Dam generates in 24 hours.

Is it mandatory for a journalist to have no basic school education?

This weapons (explosive magnetic generators) were suggested by Andrey Sakharov in late-50s.

TahGut, Belenko's MiG-25 had an "experimental" version of electronic equipment that was installed only on 5 machines and was considered ineffective and was to be replaced in a matter of weeks. But you are right - they used tubes because they could survive an electromagnetic impulse from a nuclear explosion. In strategic misslie units they even used mechanical relays in most vital systems...