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Britain Secretly Develops Artillery Shell To Disable
Electronics
By Michael Smith
www.telegraph.uk
A non-lethal artillery shell designed to disable all
the enemy's electronic equipment without killing
anybody has
been developed at a secret site in south-west England.
The shell was designed following revelations that
Russia was well ahead of the West in the development
of
so-called radio-frequency weapons. A paper given at a
conference in Bordeaux in 1994 made it clear that the
Russians believed it possible to use such weapons to
disable all of an enemy's electronic equipment.
Written by Dr A B Prishchipenko and entitled Radio
Frequency Weapons on the Future Battlefield, it
described
Soviet research dating back to the late Forties,
provoking near panic among western military planners.
It gave
credence to the nightmare scenario of a
high-technology war in which all the radio, radar and
computer
systems on which their weapons depended would be
disabled leaving them completely defenceless.
Then two years ago, it emerged that the Russians had
developed an electro-magnetic device, a so-called E
Bomb, capable of disabling electrical and electronic
systems and which could be carried in a briefcase.
Amid
intelligence reports showing that the IRA had
discussed the possibility of closing down the City of
London with
an E Bomb, British research into the technology was
stepped up.
Matra BAe Dynamics set to work on producing a western
version, as well as a means of countering the
Russian weapon, in its Novel Technology section. It
has now persuaded the MoD that the weapon is feasible.
As a result of "a highly successful demonstration",
the team won the BAe Systems Chairman's Gold Award for
2000.
The announcement of the award made no mention of the
type of weapon other than to say that it offered "a
new
capability for exerting force or the fear of force, a
completely new war fighting capability to coerce and
disable
an adversary without inflicting lethal force". At the
same time, the MoD published a summary of requirements
for "Radio Frequency Munitions delivered by 155mm
shell or rocket" as a possible future requirement, the
first
step in the procurement process.
The shell or rocket will follow the normal trajectory
of a standard missile but contain only a few grammes
of
explosive used to open it up as it approaches the
target. An array of aerials then spring out and a
burst of radio
frequency of less than a second's duration is
transmitted, disabling all electronic equipment within
a given
range.
The weapon will allow commanders to disrupt completely
the enemy's command and control systems.
Computers on weapons, tanks and aircraft will crash
and radios and radar systems will become useless. The
weapon will also bring the civil structure to a
standstill, causing national telephone, television and
radio
networks to go down and electrical grids to collapse.
Used properly, the weapon can be deployed even in
areas of concentrated population without risk of
civilian
deaths. This makes it particularly useful where the
enemy is deliberately concealing its military assets
in civilian
areas. The system is low cost and can be deployed
rapidly and without warning, making it very difficult
to
counter.
One senior military officer said it was possible the
new weapon might lead to the situation where an enemy
could be conquered without fighting. "If you can take
out the civilian economic infrastructure of a nation,
then
that nation, in addition to not being able to function
internally, cannot deploy its military by air or sea,
or supply
them with any real effectiveness, if at all."
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