Posted on 03/11/2014 4:58:32 PM PDT by Kartographer
That would work...
The Diehl company briefcase sized EMP weapon can be purchased for around $40K.
Easily timed and stored in baggage or even carried onboard and stowed in the overhead near the CPUs.
Lights out, no connection to the outside world, all instrumentation, flight controls, no nada....
Can these planes be flown dead stick?
I think its the staff that was stolen.....
Do you understand now what I was getting at?
“Welders disconnect the battery before welding on a vehicle “
No they don’t...
I think the spooks should be finding out whether the guys travelling on stolen passports are qualified in heavy aircraft, specifically the 777.
Did the captain invite them into the cockpit? Or maybe some more babes that then let the bad guys in.
Next question:
It is only 1,600 miles farther to Iran than to Beijing.
Since one needs fuel to an alternate plus 45 minutes, it is conceivable the aircraft had enough fuel on board.
OK, so did it?
So then how to get there?
Dive to below radar coverage after turning off the transponders and any other equipment that talks to the ground automatically.
Fly the required distance below radar coverage. At some point put the transponder on an Iranian military code and climb back to an altitude that does not cause fuel exhaustion.
Land in Iran.
Now you have the tool to deliver either an EMP or some other surprise.
James Bond stuff?
Yes, but there is James Bond stuff going on all over the world already.
Trust me... Most of what I have run has been mechanical IPs.
“I don’t know for certain, but I believe most modern alternators are controlled by a pulse width modulated signal from the engine computer. I would assume there’s a module on the alternator that has to decode the signal and convert it to actual voltage changes in the unit itself. Perhaps that module is where the vulnerability lies. “
Nope... the three phase voltage that is rectified for the output of an alternator is simply controlled by the dc voltage applied to the stator...
“I don’t need to. A smart welder will disconnect the battery!”
If you disconnect the battery on a 2006 or later car, you can’t do an emission test for a month, or have driven X number of miles. This is because the computer is reset. Welders do not disconnect the battery. That would actually increase the danger from RFI.
You're better off to disconnect the battery when you're welding. What if your car has a bad ground? It becomes a liability for the welder. It's easier to disconnect the battery than to replace electrical components.
Why do you think they have been buying ammo and emergency food like mad for the last several years?
Plus, no calls on cell phones out nor any being answered, no emergency calls over the radio by the pilots or even turning their transponder over to the numbers 7500 which means hijacking but was turned off instead.
Then it disappeared.
Fly it like you stole it. And they’re doing just that.
What if your car has a bad ground?”
If you had a bad ground you would never to be able to strike an ark with electric welding. Stick or MIG...
Trust me, I’m not only a EE, but a physicists and a welder. The last thing you want to do is remove the battery. The battery would act as a low impedance shunt between the positive and negative side of the electrical system in a car, making it even more vulnerable.
I don’t know if you realize this, but the average square mile in the U.S. has 25 Lightning strikes a year and the average energy released in each one is equivalent to .0071 kilo tones of TNT. Your television survives, so does your car and most of the time your computer.
Considering that electromagnetic pulses decrease in amplitude with the square of the distance, that’s significant. You don’t need to worry too much about this...
We had a house get hit by lightning and the whole house had to be rewired.
I just hope if we do have an emp attack all my electrical stuff survives!
A modern diesel relies pretty heavily on electronics.
That occurred to me, but thank you for posting the obvious. Diesels as traditionally smoked along would never be allowed these days, hence heavily computer controlled modern versions that would be just as vulnerable to EMP as your basic Corolla.
Now, if you had some 60's era Kenworth and could get the diesel out of the ground tanks.......
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