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2020-03-08 at 2:56 AM UTC
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2020-03-08 at 3:25 AM UTC
turkish vehicles trying to pull down border fence -
2020-03-08 at 12:09 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-03-08 at 4:39 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra as I understand it modern reactive armor uses an explosion to divert the stream of plasma that comes out of a HEAT projectile; it doesn't help much against a hypersonic chunk of copper coming fast enough to cut through several inches of steel
Several feet of solid steel in some cases. I wonder how effective an Explosively pumped flux compression generator (EPFCG) round would be against a tank. Basically an EMP round. The most powerful EMP a person can make outside using a small nuke.
Not hard to make, either. -
2020-03-08 at 4:41 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra Not sure what it is with these guys and stealing peoples' clothes but 'anti immigrant gangs' have been stripping migrants, beating them and sending them back to Turkey in their underwear.
Excellent.
Leave it to the descendants of the people who created the Spartans, to actually fight back against an invading mudslime force. -
2020-03-08 at 4:44 PM UTC
Herrhausen was killed by a sophisticated roadside bomb shortly after leaving his home in Bad Homburg on 30 November 1989.[4] He was being chauffeured to work in his armoured Mercedes-Benz, with bodyguards in both a lead vehicle and another following behind.[1] The 7 kg bomb was hidden in a bag on a bicycle parked next to the road that the assassins knew Herrhausen would be traveling in his three-car convoy. The bicycle had been consistently parked sans explosive in the same location along Herrhausen's route for extended period of time before the assassination itself, and it was therefore ignored by Herrhausen's security. The bomb was detonated when Herrhausen's car interrupted a beam of infrared light as it passed the bicycle. The bomb targeted the most vulnerable area of Herrhausen's car – the door where he was sitting – and required split-second timing to overcome the car's special armour plating. The bomb utilized a Misznay–Schardin mechanism. A copper plate, placed between the explosive and the target, was deformed and projected by the force of the explosion. The detonation resulted in a mass of copper being projected toward the car at a speed of nearly two kilometers per second, efficiently penetrating the armoured Mercedes. Herrhausen's legs were severed and he bled to death.
I heard about this assassination in a british documentary, 'deadly game' I think it was called. Activated by an infrared laser I think, timed perfectly. No one else in the car was killed. -
2020-03-08 at 4:54 PM UTC
Originally posted by Kuntzschutz Several feet of solid steel in some cases. I wonder how effective an Explosively pumped flux compression generator (EPFCG) round would be against a tank. Basically an EMP round. The most powerful EMP a person can make outside using a small nuke.
Not hard to make, either.
The weapons of the future will materialize and detonate a warhead directly inside the target. Particle disintegration/re-integration molecular transport technology. The soldiers of the future will be techs and hackers. -
2020-03-08 at 5:04 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL The weapons of the future will materialize and detonate a warhead directly inside the target. Particle disintegration/re-integration molecular transport technology. The soldiers of the future will be techs and hackers.
We have stuff like that. The concept of a "super soldier" has been around a long time. We have those too, of course. Some of them are hackers, a lot of them actually. None of the "programming" will ever replace actual training because of stuff like EMPs though. -
2020-03-08 at 6:27 PM UTCYou'll be able to transport, by air, a triggered grenade, directly into a room in a building.
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2020-03-08 at 8:03 PM UTC
George Dukesh, former Researcher and scientist at Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom (2001-2013)
Answered Oct 4 2019 · Author has 4k answers and 1.3m answer views
EMP Shells aren’t viable, at present, as they cannot be made long enough to be collapsed sufficiently to generate the EMP pulse. However, EMP generating missiles exist and can be used.
The principle is in explosively pumped flux compression generator (EPFCG) . A magnetic flux is generated in an electrically charged coil. When this is suddenly crushed by an explosion, the magnetic flux follows Maxwells equations, and causes an intense Electromagnetic pulse . This pulse can be “ aimed” quite accurately.
this sort of weapon has been shown to work in destroying targets such as radars.
the US has developed the CHAMP missile, which uses a slightly different technique to pump the flux; thus it can perform several EMP stacks before being destroyed.
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Modern warfare has a lot more to do with signals than people might imagine, at the most advanced levels. Signals intelligence. One of the main uses with telepathic soldiers is in signals intelligence, covert means of communication.
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00788r001300010001-7
They are able to actually hack into computers with their minds, but they can't do too much because the data transfer rate this way is low, even though some of these people have been altered so that their brains can process much more information than normal in a shorter amount of time. -
2020-03-08 at 8:06 PM UTC
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2020-03-08 at 8:07 PM UTC
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2020-03-08 at 8:08 PM UTCAnyhow, the best way to get through the 'active' armor, if it contains an HE as some does as a reaction to any high velocity projectile or shockwave, would be to have your plates stacked, with a higher VOD HE than the active armor contains.
And apparently, it would be better to make something like a CHAMP missile, with your EPFCGs stacked, if going the emp route. Not hard to do really.
EDIT: I came up with an idea for something like this on a much smaller scale and it made the feds real paranoid. If it weren't possible, they wouldn't have pissed their pants over the idea. I'm not the best engineer but they know I can come up with some of this stuff and make it work. -
2020-03-08 at 8:09 PM UTCThe hell you talking about, Krang?
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2020-03-08 at 8:49 PM UTC
What claim ? I posted a snippet of it. Shows 105 mm EMP ( rocket propelled) grenadee and one 42 mm EMP reactive( rocket propelled) grenade "Atropus". There was also a howitzer shell variant IIRC.
Some info but in Russian page 292-293 and on further.
https://issuu.com/premiaprosvetitel/docs/prishepenko_a._shipenie_snaryadov.a
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/what-would-be-more-useful-to-infantry-power-armor-or-active-camoflauge.513049/page-3 -
2020-03-08 at 8:50 PM UTC
An explosively pumped flux compression generator (EPFCG) is a device used to generate a high-power electromagnetic pulseby compressing magnetic flux using high explosive.
An EPFCG only ever generates a single pulse as the device is physically destroyed during operation. An EPFCG package that could be easily carried by a person can produce pulses in the millions of amperes and tens of terawatts.[citation needed] They require a starting current pulse to operate, usually supplied by capacitors.
Explosively pumped flux compression generators are popular as power sources for electronic warfare devices known as transient electromagnetic devices that generate an electromagnetic pulse without the costs and side effects of a nuclear weapon. They also can be used to accelerate objects to extreme velocities and compress objects to very high pressures and densities; this gives them a role as a physics research tool.
The first work on these generators was conducted by the VNIIEF center for nuclear research in Sarov in Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1950s followed by Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.
These devices provide opportunities for ultrahigh magnetic-field experiments in quantum chemistry and molecular physics. -
2020-03-08 at 8:51 PM UTCLolz
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2020-03-08 at 8:54 PM UTC
Depends on what you're trying to do.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/11/07/023238/north-korea-developing-electromagnetic-pulse-weapons
Consider America's modern soldier–or maybe a few years down the road. He's wearing radios and cameras, has computer-aided targeting systems, etc. How are the North Koreans going to compete against that kind of technology?
On the other hand, if you could knock it out from a short distance away, you turn an effectively integrated military unit into a bunch of guys with guns. You level the playing field.
yep
Those pesky russians -
2020-03-08 at 9:08 PM UTC
symmetry81
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Flux compressors are pretty simple in concept. Someone on a mailing list I was on once detailed his experiences building his own and testing it in a quarry and sure enough it was able to fry a couple of LCD wristwatches at a pretty long range.
Later I saw an SBIR involving one go past, meaning the government does have some interest at least. I would have liked to do a proposal but the place I was working didn't have any experience with explosives or proper test facilities so it would have been a bad idea.
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2020-03-08 at 9:10 PM UTC
The power of chemical explosives is limited by physics and likely cannot be enhanced very much. On the other hand, to strike a target's electronics – and thus the target – it is enough to burn through a semiconductor a few thousandths of a millimeter wide. For this it is enough to use a radio-frequency electromagnetic pulse (RFEMP), with energy outputs hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of times less than those needed to destroy that target with a blast wave or ammunition.
Missing isn't that bad
The RFEMP causes a charge to run through the surrounded air. The radiation energy heats the resulting plasma – which means that for practical energy the energy of the radiation at the source must not be too high. Thus, directed energy weapons like vircators or magnetrons have no future as EMP arms – they will always lose to equally-sized artillery in range and effectiveness.
EDIT:“Nine of 10 Americans are dead from starvation, disease, and societal collapse. The United States of America ceases to exist,” warned the report declassified by recently decommissioned U.S. Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/new-emp-warning-us-will-cease-to-exist-90-of-population-will-die
The report, written by EMP expert Peter Vincent Pry, revealed EMP war plans drawn up by Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, and even ISIS.
In “Nuclear EMP Attack Scenarios and Combined-Arms Cyber Warfare,” Pry said that the Russians have called EMP a “revolution in military affairs.”
He explained it this way to the Washington Examiner: “This new warfare uses cyber viruses, hacking, physical attacks, non-nuclear EMP weapons, and a nuclear EMP attack against electric grids and critical infrastructures. It renders modern armies, navies, and air forces obsolete. It paves the way for asymmetric warfare by small nations and terrorists.”
Pry said that the U.S. is an easy target because virtually everything, military and civilian, relies on computers, and even the Pentagon uses the civilian Internet. “Ours is the most technologically advanced society, and therefore the most susceptible to attack,” said Pry.“There is no coming back,” said his report, adding:
“Everything is in blackout and nothing works. The EMP sparks widespread fires, explosions, all kinds of industrial accidents. Firestorms rage in cities and forests. Toxic clouds pollute the air and chemical spills poison already polluted lakes and rivers. In seven days, the over 100 nuclear power reactors run out of emergency power and go Fukushima, spreading radioactive plumes over the most populous half of the United States. There is not even any drinking water and the national food supply in regional warehouses begins to spoil in three days. There was only enough food to feed 320 million people for 30 days anyway.”
Data fusion centers would be fantastic targets, as well as FEMA hqs and hospitals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite_bomb
https://www.amateurpyro.com/forums/topic/1805-explosively-pumped-flux-compression-generatorfcg/
Police stations too, of course.
