RE: Israel: Helping To Make A Better World
⁜→ Mindful, Indeependent, et al,
BLUF: I believe that our friend "Indeependent" is right on the money.
Much of the more advanced military opponents are heavily dependent on electronics. Even many of the new military vehicles are dependent on electronic ignition systems; not to mention telecommunications, video systems, targeting systems, blue force tracking systems, and even fly by wire systems (just to mention a few). I suspect that the Israelis will develop a new era of weapons designed to exploit these types of vulnerabilities.
One such weapon might be an Explosively Pumped Flux Compression Generator (EPFCG) or Electromagnetic Pinch Devices (EPD) which is in the family of nonNuclear EMP (NNEMP) weapons. They are really cheap to make and can be adapted to fit most air-launched or ground-launched weapons systems. They are versatile and readily available on the open market. Right now, the danger is on the criminal and terrorist level (asymmetric encounters) but given the proper focus, and an increase in the effective radius of the weapon, it could be used to disable control centers, communications networks, approaching supersonic aircraft, mechanized military formations, as well as other electronic centrix devices and systems.
I see the Israelis as much more developed in the way new ideas are evaluated and applied than the more advanced but electronic dependent nations. When I was in Iraq, I saw the SIPRNet go down once, and it was pandemonium.
Most Respectfully,
R
⁜→ Mindful, Indeependent, et al,
BLUF: I believe that our friend "Indeependent" is right on the money.
(COMMENT)
Much of the more advanced military opponents are heavily dependent on electronics. Even many of the new military vehicles are dependent on electronic ignition systems; not to mention telecommunications, video systems, targeting systems, blue force tracking systems, and even fly by wire systems (just to mention a few). I suspect that the Israelis will develop a new era of weapons designed to exploit these types of vulnerabilities.
One such weapon might be an Explosively Pumped Flux Compression Generator (EPFCG) or Electromagnetic Pinch Devices (EPD) which is in the family of nonNuclear EMP (NNEMP) weapons. They are really cheap to make and can be adapted to fit most air-launched or ground-launched weapons systems. They are versatile and readily available on the open market. Right now, the danger is on the criminal and terrorist level (asymmetric encounters) but given the proper focus, and an increase in the effective radius of the weapon, it could be used to disable control centers, communications networks, approaching supersonic aircraft, mechanized military formations, as well as other electronic centrix devices and systems.
I see the Israelis as much more developed in the way new ideas are evaluated and applied than the more advanced but electronic dependent nations. When I was in Iraq, I saw the SIPRNet go down once, and it was pandemonium.
Most Respectfully,
R
