China has doomsday weapon ???????

[mrsleeve]

read it here folks China developing EMP weapons. Just the thought of this makes me queasy.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/21/beijing-develops-radiation-weapons/

Per my norm 1st 1/3 or so of article.

China's military is developing electromagnetic pulse weapons that Beijing plans to use against U.S. aircraft carriers in any future conflict over Taiwan, according to an intelligence report made public on Thursday.

Portions of a National Ground Intelligence Center study on the lethal effects of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and high-powered microwave (HPM) weapons revealed that the arms are part of China’s so-called “assassin’s mace” arsenal - weapons that allow a technologically inferior China to defeat U.S. military forces.

EMP weapons mimic the gamma-ray pulse caused by a nuclear blast that knocks out all electronics, including computers and automobiles, over wide areas. The phenomenon was discovered in 1962 after an aboveground nuclear test in the Pacific disabled electronics in Hawaii.

The declassified intelligence report, obtained by the private National Security Archive, provides details on China’s EMP weapons and plans for their use. Annual Pentagon reports on China's military in the past made only passing references to the arms.

“For use against Taiwan, China could detonate at a much lower altitude (30 to 40 kilometers) … to confine the EMP effects to Taiwan and its immediate vicinity and minimize damage to electronics on the mainland,” the report said.

The report, produced in 2005 and once labeled “secret,” stated that Chinese military writings have discussed building low-yield EMP warheads, but “it is not known whether [the Chinese] have actually done so.”

The report said that in addition to EMP weapons, “any low-yield strategic nuclear warhead (or tactical nuclear warheads) could be used with similar effects.”

“The DF-21 medium-range ballistic missile has been mentioned as a platform for the EMP attack against Taiwan,” the report said.

good discussion on EMP's here in this thread as well. More what to do if an EMP event happens

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=181778&highlight=EMP

[Farbin Kaiber]

I guess a tin foil hat wouldn't protect ya?

[mrsleeve]

nahhh dont think it would matter too much unless it was grounded well

[kronus]

EMPs have existed for ages. The US has some crazy-ass weapons also.

[gwb72tii]

EMPs have existed for ages. The US has some crazy-ass weapons also.

i believe we have pulse weapons capable of shooting satellites down

[NKRoberts]

mrsleeve do you live in a constant state of panic?

[mrsleeve]

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Funny thing is I dont. I am prepared for nearly anything........


Yes I am sure we have a similar weapon and I am confident that our military hardware, would be fairly well protected and engineered around such weapons. Its not our weapons systems I am worried about its our infrastructure here at home that makes this scary possibility.

[Dozyproductions]

Imagine the scare we've been giving other countries for the last 70 years with weapons that we have.

[kronus]

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Funny thing is I dont.

and yet the title of this thread is "china has doomsday weapon ???????". chill out, be less hyperbolic, and folks will take you more seriously maybe ;)

[Farbin Kaiber]

Yeah sleeve, what kind of kook are you?

[mrsleeve]

and yet the title of this thread is "china has doomsday weapon ???????". chill out, be less hyperbolic, and folks will take you more seriously maybe ;)

would you have read it if I gave it some other type of title??


Dozy: most countries fall under our wing of protection, so one may conclude they are at ease with it.

[nrubenstein]

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Funny thing is I dont. I am prepared for nearly anything........


Yes I am sure we have a similar weapon and I am confident that our military hardware, would be fairly well protected and engineered around such weapons. Its not our weapons systems I am worried about its our infrastructure here at home that makes this scary possibility.

Not really. If they did that to us here, we'd start by nuking Beijing. And they know it.

[Farbin Kaiber]

and yet the title of this thread is "china has doomsday weapon ???????". chill out, be less hyperbolic, and folks will take you more seriously maybe

would you have read it if I gave it some other type of title??

This is what he wants out of you...

"China now Has Weapon the US has had lying in bunkers in Oklahoma for 40 Years!"

[kronus]

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[Farbin Kaiber]

Not really. If they did that to us here, we'd start by nuking Beijing. And they know it.

If you read about the weapon, you'll find that China has created this weapon for use against the US because they know it is something the US will not respond with nuclear force to.

“any vulnerable U.S. [aircraft carrier] would not push the U.S. across the nuclear-response threshold,” the report said.