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Title: 2 billion watts
Post by: weazel on January 20, 2003, 02:08:16 PM
Will ruin your day (http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030127/nmicro.html)  :cool:
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Post by: mietla on January 20, 2003, 02:19:09 PM
Sure it can, what's your point?
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Post by: SOB on January 20, 2003, 02:25:05 PM
Hmmm...I wonder how fast that thing could cook a bag of popcorn?


SOB
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Post by: CMC Airboss 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
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Post by: eskimo2 on January 20, 2003, 02:30:24 PM
Cool weapon.  
It will essentially save lives on both sides.

eskimo
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Post by: Modas 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...
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Post by: Tarmac 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.
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Post by: Rude 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.
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Post by: Wlfgng 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....
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Post by: Animal on January 20, 2003, 03:46:46 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


You think they would be publishing this information without the .gov wanting them to?
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Post by: Wlfgng on January 20, 2003, 03:50:04 PM
it's very old news/technology
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Post by: whgates3 on January 21, 2003, 02:19:47 AM
spy magazine had an article about it maybe 10 years ago...
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Post by: midnight Target 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.
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Post by: GRUNHERZ on January 21, 2003, 09:58:26 AM
MT that sig has to be a joke, right?  :)
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Post by: Boroda 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...
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Post by: midnight Target on January 21, 2003, 10:35:51 AM
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
MT that sig has to be a joke, right?  :)


Just quoting Hammy.. I thought it was funny.
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Post by: GRUNHERZ on January 21, 2003, 10:38:06 AM
Was he joking?  BTW its just about what her said not what he might have meant...
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Post by: midnight Target on January 21, 2003, 10:55:28 AM
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Was he joking?  BTW its just about what her said not what he might have meant...


Of course. What he meant pissed off a lot of people. What he said was too silly to pass up. He wasn't joking, he was "quoting Einstein". LOL.

And I agree with him about 7-11. :D

I mean 8-11 or even 0-11 might be a typo. But 7-11 ?
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Post by: GRUNHERZ on January 21, 2003, 11:11:14 AM
lol :)
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Post by: Maverick on January 21, 2003, 12:44:51 PM
A 1000' range doesn't sound very "super weapon" to me.