Thursday, February 16, 2012

Electromagnetic weapon

Electromagnetic (radiation) weapons are a blazon of directed activity weapons which use electromagnetic radiation to bear heat, mechanical, or electrical activity to a ambition to could cause various, sometimes actual subtle, effects. They can be acclimated adjoin humans, cyberbanking equipment, and aggressive targets generally, depending on the technology.

Taser-like motor furnishings are aswell possible. The purpose of the PEP (Pulsed Activity Projectile), the LIP (Laser Induced Plasma) weapon and the Active Denial Arrangement (ADS) is to abet pain, although the PEP has baleful capabilities.

When acclimated adjoin equipment, directed electromagnetic activity weapons can accomplish analogously to omnidirectional electromagnetic beating (EMP) devices, by inducing annihilative voltage aural cyberbanking wiring. The aberration is that they are directional and can be focused on a specific ambition application a emblematic reflector. Faraday cages may be acclimated to accommodate aegis from a lot of directed and accidental EMP effects.

When acclimated adjoin bodies electromagnetic weapons can accept affecting effects, such as the acute afire awareness acquired by Raytheon's Active Denial system, or added attenuate furnishings such as the creation—at a distance—of a faculty of all-overs or alarming in an alone or a accumulation of people. Three aggressive advantages of such weapons are: (1) that the alone or accumulation of humans would not necessarily apprehend that they were getting targeted by such a device; (2) that bake radiation, like some added radio abundance radiation, can calmly access a lot of accepted architecture materials; and (3) that with specialized antennas the radiation and its furnishings can be focused on either an alone or a ample breadth such as a city-limits or country.

Potential aggressive uses for such weapons cover (1) the adequacy to access an adversary force (or population) to abscond rather than to angle and action by arty on them a faculty of abundant all-overs or approaching disastercitation needed) ; (2) the adeptness to argue captured adversary combatants that the abundant faculty of concrete abundance which seemed to accompany their getting even hardly accommodating was abundant added adorable than the cutting faculty of anxiety and alarming associated with their getting uncooperative; (3) the adeptness to bankrupt an adversary force of complete beddy-bye for a abiding period; or (4) the adequacy to actuate the abutting assembly of an adversary soldier that the soldier—perhaps an administrator who absolutely hears choir or aberrant noises that no one abroad can hear—is traveling crazy and is not to be taken seriously. Such feelings, voices, or aberrant noises and dreams can be directed at the adversary with some attention by specialized, microwave-type radiation antennas.

High-energy radio abundance weapons (HERF) or high-power radio abundance weapons (HPRF) use top acuteness radio after-effects to agitate electronics.

High and low power, Pulsed Bake accessories use low-frequency bake radiation which can be fabricated to carefully actor and collaborate with accustomed animal academician after-effects accepting agnate amplitudes and frequencies. The heart, lungs, and added basic organs are controlled by actual low voltage cyberbanking signals from the animal brain. It should be accessible to disrupt, catastrophically, such signals - from a ambit - application this technology.

Ethical considerations

Faced with peaceful, non-violent protestors, law administration admiral having, say, aerial electromagnetic weapons at their auctioning could covertly access the protestors to adjourn after the protestors even getting acquainted of such an effort.

Faced with agitation and apparent abandon a government could covertly actualize a ambit fence of radiation through which the rioters could not canyon after activity enough pain.

Using electromagnetic weapons law administration admiral could, over time, covertly annoy a "person of interest" into committing suicide and thereby finer accept his captivation in the crime.

A US aborigine could, beneath the aegis of the US Constitution, barrage from abaft fatigued blinds a buried cyberbanking advance on an unwanted, biting acquaintance thereby influencing the acquaintance to advertise his abode and move away. Even if the acquaintance doubtable he was getting addled electronically he apparently could not argue the authorities to seek his acrimonious neighbor's home after his getting able to aftermath absolute affirmation of the harassment.

By way of an electromagnetic arresting directed against her from a hidden microwave-type antenna, a woman searching at a section of accouterment or adornment in a abundance window could be afflicted to acquaintance affections actual agnate to those she would acquaintance during a animal orgasm. She could be thereby covertly afflicted to buy the account of accouterment or jewelry.citation needed


Research and development

The University of Florida and the University of Central Florida, in affiliation with the Office of Naval Research, conducted a abstraction amorphous in 2004 alleged "the Sensory Consequences of Electromagnetic Pulses Emitted by Laser Induced Plasma Channels". According to Dr. Jonathan Moreno, columnist of the book MIND WARS (2009), this activity will accept to be brought out of the class and assimilate the battlefield to actuate the abounding furnishings of application these weapons on humans. (Google award/contract M67854-04-C-5074)

The University of Texas-Austin Institute for Advanced Technology (IAT) conducts basal analysis to beforehand electrodynamics and hypervelocity physics accompanying to electromagnetic weapons.1

Use against humans

Sometimes advised to be non-lethal, electromagnetic weapons can, below the appropriate altitude or in the amiss hands, affectation bloom threats to humans.2

Some bio-effects of electromagnetic (radiation) weapons cover furnishings to the animal axial afraid arrangement consistent in localized concrete affliction (e.g. headaches or collective pain), adversity breathing, vertigo, incontinence, nausea, disorientation, or added systemic discomfort. Electromagnetic radiation weapons may could cause accumulative accident to the animal body. Electromagnetic weapons can affect the animal afraid arrangement and ability advance to diseases of the afraid arrangement such as Primary Lateral Sclerosis.

Microwave pulses can affect the covering (skin) and dermis, the blubbery acute band of derma and affiliation tissue below the covering that contains blood, lymph vessels, diaphoresis glands, and assumption endings, breeding a afire awareness or absolute bake from as far as 700 meters.3

edit Project Pandora

Project Pandora was conducted by the Advanced Analysis Projects Agency (ARPA), which became Defense ARPA (DARPA), included evidently induced audition ascribe from pulsed microwaves which actualize the aftereffect of audition automated or beat noises. Test capacity appear acutely audition the sounds whether or not they were cutting ear protection, such as ear plugs. The Walter Reed Army Institute of Analysis affiliated this mission and this research, but alone with account to investigating the adverse bloom furnishings of acknowledgment to bake radiation. The analysis was not done in humans. Project Pandora is no best below study.

Use against equipment

Directed activity weapons such as Boeing’s Airborne Laser, a actinic laser which has been army in a 747 jet is reportedly able to abort admission missiles by heating and warping the attenuate pressurized derma archetypal of such missiles.4

Electromagnetic weapons, including top ability microwaves, were acclimated during the Gulf War to agitate and abort the enemy's cyberbanking systems and may accept been acclimated for added purposes. The amount of acknowledgment to electromagnetic fields by Iraqi civilians and battlefield troops is unknown.5