On 5/16/19 6:18 PM, jim bell wrote: > Air Force has deployed missiles that could fry electronics of Iran > https://mol.im/a/7037549 via http://dailym.ai/android >
The article as a whole reads like a "defense" contractor's press release: Bombastic, overblown, factually inaccurate (i.e. pretends real hard that facilities can not be hardened against super-duper microwave beams), and even includes this barb against anyone who would dare deprive the contractor of Yuge cash payouts: > Because of sequestration budget cuts, the CHAMP missiles did not become > operational under the Obama administration. Here's a cheap laugh: > The missile is equipped with an electromagnetic pulse cannon. This uses a > super-powerful microwave oven to generate a concentrated beam of energy. And right in the middle of the article, apropos of nothing, this non-sequitur appears: > One of those laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, has been developing > robots the size of insects that could assassinate North Korean leader Kim > Jong-un with deadly toxins. > > These robotic weapons using nanotechnology employed in surgical operations in > hospitals are being developed secretly with funding by the Defense Advanced > Research Projects Agency. Far be it from me to cry "old news!", but I read all about that project, sitting in the Central Kitsap Jr. High library in 1973: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57079 What that has to do with using drone-mounted microwave ovens to destroy all the electronics in shielded bunkers, I have no clue. :o)
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