Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: pd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Philip Daniels) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Info wanted on Soviet EM pulse(?) weapons Message-ID: <1991Mar4.211054.7940@cbnews.att.com> Date: 4 Mar 91 21:10:54 GMT References: <1991Mar1.053601.551@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (william.b.thacker) Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK. Lines: 44 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Philip Daniels In article <1991Mar1.053601.551@cbnews.att.com> axolotl@socs.uts.EDU.AU (Iain D. Sinclair) writes: >I recently read an article based on the writings of Lt. Col. (ret) Thomas >E. Bearden, on Soviet "scalar wave" EM weapons systems. "Time-Reversed" >waves are used in conjunction with radars to produce a directed-energy >weapon. The pulse also causes fission in some material. (apparently.) >As I don't remember seeing this stuff in the Pentagon's _Soviet Military >Power_s, is there any actual basis for these reports? This comes straight off the top of my head, but I believe that the Soviet Union has been developing Em weapons for many years. I once saw a documetary which derscribed how the Soviet Union was bathing most of the world (ie Western Europe, the Amercias and Asia) in EM radiation, in the form of a long wavelength EM pulse. You can pick up this pulse on a standard radio in the open air, inside buildings, even (I've heard) underground. It's called the 'Woodpecker' because of the sound it makes, and is apparently the strongest EM pulse ever generated on earth. The Soviets believe that it has deleterious effects on the health of people subjected to it. If I remember rightly, the Soviets also bombarded the old American embassy in Moscow with microwave radiation from a building across the street. The staff suddenly began to develop mysterious illnesses, and operational efficiency was so reduced that a decision was taken to construct a new building which would be invulnerable to such techniques. I now of no instances of battlefield EM weapons, I think they would be rather impractical, requiring lots of hardware to do generate a pulse of sufficient strength to do any damage in the short time availabe, that is, seconds or minutes on a modern battlfefield rather than the years which were avaliable to the Soviets in the case of the Moscow embassy. Also, if you direct an EM pulse at the enemy then you rather advertise your position and expose yourself to attack from radiation seeking armaments. bugger, I've lost my sig..... Philip Daniels (pd@doc.ic.ac.uk) First Year undergraduate, DoC.