Re: [iwar] FW: Britain Develops Shell To Disable Electronics
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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 08:52:01 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: [iwar] FW: Britain Develops Shell To Disable Electronics
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Seems a bit optimistic to me.
Per the message sent by St. Clair, James:
> Britain Develops Shell To Disable Electronics
...
> 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.
"disrupt completely the enemy's command and control systems" - not
likely without killing everybody - since verbal commands still work.
> 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.
Low cost, small warhead, completely disrupts all enemy C2, crashes all
computers within a radius... I don't think so.
> 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."
This seems to me at this time to be far too optimistic and likely
reflects either a serious case of perception management (whether we are
the targets - or the brittish population - or an enemy - or perhaps the
senior militay official) or a major change in the laws of physics.
Quite a bit is published about electromagnetic effects of nuclear
weapons from early experiments, and a few pounds of explosives that
don't harm any people are not likely to be able to have such a
substantial effect.
FC
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