Martial Law in the Making

AntiMullah ^ | May 12th, 2009 | Videos

[MeanWestTexan]

I would think my mom would have been in possession of my weaposn, so I would answer “none.”

[Polarik]

Thanks for the reply. Actually, I made a rhetorical question here. I thought that this would generate more discussion. It didn’t so, here’s the whole enchilada I know about short-range EMP weapons.

Being a long-time reader of globalsecurity.org, I’ve been well aware of generated EMP devices that were developed by both Russia and the US during the Cold War that have been since declassified.

The EMP effect has essenitally been known for over 80 years. The theory was first proposed in 1925 by physicist Arthur H. Compton. He demonstrated that firing a stream of highly energetic photons into atoms that have a low atomic number causes them to eject a stream of electrons. Students of physics will recognize this phenomenon as the Compton Effect.

Commercial computer equipment is particularly vulnerable to EMP effects, as it is largely built up of high density Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) devices, which are very sensitive to exposure to high voltage transients. What is significant about MOS devices is that very little energy is required to permanently wound or destroy them, any voltage in typically in excess of tens of Volts can produce an effect termed gate breakdown which effectively destroys the device. Even if the pulse is not powerful enough to produce thermal damage, the power supply in the equipment will readily supply enough energy to complete the destructive process.

Remember those warnings about electrical surges and the need to buy high-quality surge suppressors for your expensive computer equipment? If your home computer, with all its MOS circuits, is that sensitive to normal elelctrical surges, imagine what an EMP would do it and everything else that uses MOS circuits?

Even if you computer may still seem to function, it won’t be for very long. Shielding electronics by equipment chassis provides only limited protection, as any cables running in and out of the equipment will behave very much like antennae, in effect guiding the high voltage transients into the equipment.

Computers used in data processing systems, communications systems, displays, industrial control applications, including road and rail signalling, and those embedded in military equipment, such as signal processors, electronic flight controls and digital engine control systems, are all potentially vulnerable to the EMP effect.

Chief among the most recent, focused EMP sources are the “Magnetic Flux Compression Generators, aka Magnetocumulative Generators, or MCGs, that were independently developed: first by A. Sakharov (Russia) and then C.M. Fowler (American). They are (and stil may be) the most powerful Pulsed Power devices ever built.

FARS: What worries terrorism experts most is NOT an atmospheric explosion of an nuke over the US, but the Flux Compression Generator (FCG).

A Flux Compression Generator (FCG) is basically a Directed ElectroMagnetic Pulse (DEMP) gun. However, according to Carlo Kopp, an Australian-based expert on high-tech warfare, “Any nation with even a 1940s technology base could make them,” and a basic weapon could be built for $400!

It consists of a metal tube packed with explosives which is then wrapped with a copper coil. The coil is energised by a bank of capacitors and promptly detonated at the peak of the magnetic field.

Once detonation occurs the metal tube flares outward causing the coil to short circuit along its length, this propagating short circuit has the effect of compressing the magnetic field while reducing the inductance of the coil.

In layman’s terms, it’s like a lightning strike, which rapidly short-cicuits everything it its path. Unlike lightning, however, an FCG creates a moving short circuit that has the effect of compressing the magnetic field while reducing the inductance of the stator or coil. The result is that the FCG produces a ramping current pulse, which breaks before the final disintegration of the device.

Published results suggest ramp times of tens of hundreds of microseconds and peak currents of tens of millions of amps. The pulse that emerges makes a lightning bolt seem like a flashbulb by comparison.

The Indian military has studied FCG devices in detail because it fears that Pakistan, with which it has ongoing conflicts, might use FCG’s against the city of Bangalore, a sort of Indian Silicon Valley. An Indian Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis study points to two problems that have been largely overlooked by the West.

The first is that very-high-frequency pulses, in the microwave range, can worm their way around vents in Faraday Cages.

The second concern is known as the “late-time EMP effect,” and may be the most worrisome aspect of FCG devices. It occurs in the 15 minutes after detonation. During this period, the EMP that surged through electrical systems creates localized magnetic fields.

When these magnetic fields collapse, they cause electric surges to travel through the power and telecommunication infrastructure. This string-of-firecrackers effect means that terrorists would not have to drop their homemade “EMP-bombs” directly on the targets they wish to destroy.

Heavily guarded sites, such as telephone switching centers and electronic funds-transfer exchanges, could be attacked through their electric and telecommunication connections.

The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) is advancing the technology of explosive pulsed-power by making systems more compact and by optimizing them for more specific applications. Flux-compression generators (FCGs) are the primary explosive pulsed-power sources they use.

For those of you familiar with the A-bomb tests of the early 40’s, Los Alamos is well-known. What you may not know is that, for the past 40 years, they have been at the forefront of developing and using explosively-driven pulsed-power sources and related power-conditioning technology.

LANSCE is advancing the technology of explosive pulsed-power by making systems more compact and by optimizing them for more specific applications. The primary explosive pulsed-power sources we use are FCGs, which operate on the principle of magnetic-flux conservation.

Over the past two years, they have concentrated on three areas of explosively-driven FCGs: replacing the external capacitor bank that provides the initial seed current (and magnetic) flux with permanent magnets, developing and testing high-voltage air-core transformers used to couple electrical loads of various impedance to the FCG, and developing better computer models that help us design and optimize the performance of these devices.

For more information, visit http://www.active-duty.com/MI_FCG_FluxCompressionGenerator.htm

[tet68]

Many cringe at the sight of the same mean look in the now all powerful usurper of America.

As it was said of Stalin,”this is what happens when a
non-objective man is given unlimited power.”

[Polarik]

I know that someone is going to mention Doc Brown’s, “Flux Capacitor,” so I want to take that joke off the table right now.

[Centurion2000]

bump

[sheik yerbouty]

All these cpmmentators who say that Obama wants French style socialism, really don’t have a clue regarding this creature’s malevolence towards America and the American People..

[El Gato]

But, EMPs cannot be created over a small radius, can they?

Define "small". They can be created by means other than a nuclear device at high alitutude. Brief discussion and explanation at Global Security.

[Old Sarge]

There will be no Civil War, and the army will not rise up against The One (piss be upon him).

All this talk of RevWar 2.0 is nothing but Internet chatter.

[Beckwith]

Lenin said this about socialism, “The goal of socialism is communism.”

[Las Vegas Ron]

All this talk of RevWar 2.0 is nothing but Internet chatter

Remember, only about 30% of the people supported the Revolutions as well as the Civil War.

I can't say for sure we'll see a CWII but I think it's safe to say we will see some "interesting" events

[Las Vegas Ron]

Revolutions=Revolution

[sheik yerbouty]

Lenin , I believe, was the first to coin the phrase “political correctness”..

[verity]

You and I may be the only non crazies on this thread.

[Old Sarge]

Of that I have little doubt.

[frog in a pot]

The short answer:
It will be conducted by military officers who are faithful to the oath they and each Congresscritter swore to. That oath, as you well know, was not to defend the country, or the President. It was an oath to defend the Constitution.

Many will be surprised when the officers take their oath more seriously than did the Congress on Jan 8, 2009.

[Lady Jag]

There’s not much chance of us winning this, either.

[TLI]

Permanent-Magnet Seeded Flux Compressors

All flux compressors need a seed source of magnetic flux. Conventionally, this flux has been supplied by capacitor banks discharged into the circuit just before the high explosive is ignited.

http://www.active-duty.com/MI_FCG_FluxCompressionGenerator.htm





Flux capacitor

The Flux capacitor is the device that traditionally fails in a spacecraft or time machine. The purpose is still somewhat unknown; however it seems to follow Murphy's law in that, at the most awkward moment, flux failure renders escape impossible. It seems that they only actually work when there is no imminent risk of harm or embarrassment. This forces the intrepid space or time traveller to face his fears, embarrassments , or undergo a character arc in some other fashion.

Flux capacitors are also responsible for every space related accident, from the Apollo XIII to the Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters. However, scientists have yet to create spaceships without flux capacitors, because without the flux capacitor, something else would inevitably fail. The issue in each "accident" is obviously that the victims were not morally, physically and academically strong enough to muddle through the ethical issue that arose around the time of the flux problem.

The flux capacitor requires 1.21 jiggawatts to be used and is offen in conjunction with plutonium or a lightning strike(OR a Mr. Fusion, but if you can afford one of those why would you leave your house). Many have pondered the theoretical implications of two flux capacitors being used together. Some believe this would either end the world, create another Chuck Norris or both simultaneously.

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Flux_Capacitor

[mkjessup]

There will be no Civil War, and the army will not rise up against The One (piss be upon him).
All this talk of RevWar 2.0 is nothing but Internet chatter.

With all due respect Sarge, unless you've been specifically informed of that, I would say all bets are off as to what our armed forces will or will not do.

When the rubber hits the road, I believe our military professionals will side with the Constitution. Right now, I would reckon that they are biding their time, making continuous observations, compiling daily data regarding the strength of our enemies, and waiting for the 'word'.

[mkjessup]

Many will be surprised when the officers take their oath more seriously than did the Congress on Jan 8, 2009.

And on that Day, whenever it may occur, the most important task will be to determine the loyalties of the military officer carrying the 'football', and if they be with the Constitution, spirit him out of reach of the Usurper and his treasonous crew and keep him safe.

If he is with the Usurper, then the football has to be made useless and a backup ball put into the game, in a new, undisclosed secure location under the control of the Constitutionalists.

[mkjessup]

There is nothing to say that any soldier cannot place ‘official’ ownership into the hands of another family member and then slash off a big ol’ “N/A” on that form, which is questionable from a Constitutional standpoint as it clearly infringes upon the Second Amendment (not that 0bama and the rest of his Communist sockcockers have ever been troubled by THAT).