Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 16:01:35 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Re: US employs new "top secret" weapon




On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 Anarch666-AT-aol.com wrote:

>  I don't know if anyone else caught this or not, but the US military has a new
> weapon to temporarily neutralize defense systems. A small news footnote
> credited part of the airstrike's success to a weapon that can shutdown power
> and electrical equipment and delay its reactivation long enough to get strikes
> started. The use for this is obvious: shutdown radar and send in the bombers
> to take out air defenses to clear the way for air superiority. As for the
> weapon itself, there was no information on its function or delivery system. My
> guess would be an EMP (electro magnetic pulse) delivered from an orbital
> system (like in the movie Golden Eye), or possibly a blast from a cruise
> missile strike. 

Um, this "superweapon" was used to great effect in The War To Make The
Wirld Safe For Emirs.  Imagine millions of long thin strips of
foil-covered chaff floating down over powerlines.  Imagine some of these
strips falling perpindicular to the powerlines and touching two wires at
once.  

"See the pretty sparks?  Hear the transformers go `BOOM'?  Hey?  Who
turned out the lights?"

It wirked amazingly well then.  My guess is it does just fine now, too.


carp