Electromagnetic Pulse Devices, Assassin’s Mace, Trump Card, Radiation Weapons, Anti-Personnel Radio Frequency Weapons? Sounds like a Bond Movie, right?
Try the latest and greatest coming from Chinese military think-tanks reportedly being developed for use against American aircraft carriers should our nations’ find ourselves in conflict over Taiwan.
Might I add? Probably paid for with little more than the interest paid on American debt!!
Portions of a National Ground Intelligence Centerstudy on the lethal effects of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and high-powered microwave (HPM) weapons revealed that the arms are part of China’s so-called “assassin’s mace” arsenal – weapons that allow a technologically inferior China to defeat U.S. military forces.
EMP weapons mimic the gamma-ray pulse caused by a nuclear blast that knocks out all electronics, including computers and automobiles, over wide areas. The phenomenon was discovered in 1962 after an aboveground nuclear test in the Pacific disabled electronics in Hawaii.
The declassified intelligence report, obtained by the private National Security Archive, provides details on China’s EMP weapons and plans for their use. Annual Pentagon reports on China’s military in the past made only passing references to the arms.
“For use against Taiwan, China could detonate at a much lower altitude (30 to 40 kilometers) … to confine the EMP effects to Taiwan and its immediate vicinity and minimize damage to electronics on the mainland,” the report said.
The report, produced in 2005 and once labeled “secret,” stated that Chinese military writings have discussed building low-yield EMP warheads, but “it is not known whether [the Chinese] have actually done so.”
The report said that in addition to EMP weapons, “any low-yield strategic nuclear warhead (or tactical nuclear warheads) could be used with similar effects.”
“The DF-21 medium-range ballistic missile has been mentioned as a platform for the EMP attack against Taiwan,” the report said.
According to the report, China’s electronic weapons are part of what are called “trump card” or “assassin’s mace” weapons that “are based on new technology that has been developed in high secrecy.”
I’ve been looking more into this topic to get more information on it, so I can be better prepared for when we get hit with this. I know that Dr. Andrei Shoumikhin authored articled on ballistic missile defense and he knows about EMP. He’s been on this radio show before and had a ton to say. He’s actually going to be on it again next Wednesday the 17th, if you want to listen in on it this time, here’s the link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/empact-radio/2011/08/17/pvp62-dr-andrei-shoumikhin-returns-to-empact-radio