The High Powered Microwave

[FrostyBoy]

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short bit of what it says about the HPM


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THE US is ready to use an ultra-secret new weapon against Iraq - a massive man-made lightning bolt with the power of a hydro-electric dam.

The high-powered microwave (HPM) device, carried by a cruise missile, would burn out the guidance systems of Saddam Hussein's biological and chemical weapons.

The HPM is the result of a four-year research program and although only at the experimental stage, senior Pentagon officials confirmed it would be used.

As the missile reaches its target, the HPM would send out incredibly powerful microwaves and "fry" the electronic innards of every computer or microchip device within a thousand feet in any direction.

The weapon will unleash, in a flash, as much electrical power - 2 billion watts or more - as the world's biggest dams can generate in 24 hours.
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I think this is pretty cool

[ixnay]

Good thing we're keeping this a secret.

[Grrr]

Sources involved with the microwave program say it is still not certain what effect the waves will have on people.

At the very least, they will heat the water in living cells and create an "uncomfortable sensation", although only for a very brief period.

They're going to cook all the Iraqi's.

This would have a devastating effect on the environment IMHO.

[FrostyBoy]

Wouldn't something like this give cancer? Or is cancer only caused by something over a long period?

[FrustratedPoet]

ultra-secret new weapon

[statusperfect]

Trying out new experimental weaponry on Iraquis. That's what that psycho Bush wants. Sick ****.

[Cyclotron]

Well, we do it to ourselves already with cell phone antennas. What's good for us must be good for them...

[Grrr]

Cyclo, their is a difference between a cellphone antennae and a 2 billion watt brust of energy.

I think that everyone around would be sterile, if not cooked and dead.

[statusperfect]

Originally posted by Grrr
I think that everyone around would be sterile, if not cooked and dead.

This time the american soldiers with be equipped with knives, forks and barbecue sauce.

[FrustratedPoet]

Is it OK for the US to be developing highly-deadly weapon's of mass destruction?

[Grrr]

FP: NO ... we must attack them immediately ... especially because they don't let UN Weapon's inspectors in.

[DRoseDARs]

"Sources involved with the microwave program say it is still not certain what effect the waves will have on people.

At the very least, they will heat the water in living cells and create an "uncomfortable sensation", although only for a very brief period.

But HPMs could also knock out heart pacemakers and critical electrical systems in hospitals or aboard aircraft.

A Pentagon source admitted: "No doubt there will be some unintended victims."

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US Air Force Colonel Eileen Walling said: "There are signs that microwave weapons will represent a revolutionary concept for warfare, principally because they are designed to incapacitate equipment rather than humans."

She was backed by weapons specialist Professor John Moore, of the University of Virginia.

"You may be talking about a weapon here that is the sort of ultimate (for) saving people - that is, putting weapons systems out of operation while not killing the people," he said.



This'll go over well with the international community.
I've heard of talking out of both sides of your mouth...

...But talking out of both sides of your ass?

[Zopperoni]

The high-powered microwave (HPM) device, carried by a cruise missile, would burn out the guidance systems of Saddam Hussein's biological and chemical weapons.

...but will it also cook my food faster?

[Cyclotron]

Well, to be fair, there are always unintended victims in war. How is using a HPM device on a weapons site, which may hurt people, worse than using a bomb on a weapons site, which will kill people? If the USA is going to invade Iraq, I don't see how this new weapon is a negative thing...

[Jaakko]

Somehow I doubt that the US is going to let SAM sites and such just sit there after a HPM strike...