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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