At 01:46 AM 3/28/03 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: >It's a cool toy, but I can't see someone using a $1M e-bomb when a $1000 Mk.82 >will do the same thing, especially if there's any chance it'll be captured >intact by an enemy who can... hmm, there's a thought:
Oh dear! Peter, these are *free* to the people who make and use them. As a mil researcher, one would be eager to try out one's new gizmos in the field. As would all the deskjockeys who $upported your project and expect to advance their career$ if it works. A explosive driven ebomb would act just like a regular bomb to anyone standing nearby, although all that wire would be rather strange shrapnel to a naif EOD person. Iraqis don't have time to dupe it, and the Russians, Chinese, etc. can make their own. Real reason not to give it a try, once you're willing to risk knocking out civilian TVs and spec-ops radios and phones, is the *opportunity cost*. That's one bomb-pod you can't use for a known reg'lar bomb, and you are after all spending time, fuel, and life-risk-credits on your sorties. --- ...our claim to be left in the unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less reasonable to others than to us." -- Winston Churchill, January 1914
