E-Bomb Process by Vinu
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1. INTRODUCTION
The next Pearl Harbor will not announce itself with a searing flash of
nuclear light or with the plaintive wails of those dying of Ebola or its
genetically engineered twin. You will hear a sharp crack in the distance. By
the time you mistakenly identify this sound as an innocent clap of thunder,
the civilized world will have become unhinged. Fluorescent lights and
television sets will glow eerily bright, despite being turned off. The aroma
of ozone mixed with smoldering plastic will seep from outlet covers as
electric wires arc and telephone lines melt. Your Palm Pilot and MP3 player
will feel warm to the touch, their batteries overloaded. Your computer, and
every bit of data on it, will be toast. And then you will notice that the world
sounds different too. The background music of civilization, the whirl of
internal-combustion engines, will have stopped. Save a few diesels, engines
will never start again. You, however, will remain unharmed, as you find
yourself thrust backward 200 years, to a time when electricity meant a
lightning bolt fracturing the night sky. This is not a hypothetical, son-of-
Y2K scenario. It is a realistic assessment of the damage that could be
inflicted by a new generation of weapons--E-bombs.
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die from exposure, companies may suffer huge productivity losses and
millions of dollars of food may spoil. If a power outage hit on a much larger
scale, it could shut down the electronic networks that keep governments
and militaries running. We are utterly dependent on power, and when it's
gone, things get very bad, very fast.
The Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) effect was first observed during
the early testing of the theory of electromagnetism. The Electromagnetic
Pulse is in effect an electromagnetic shock wave.
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processors, electronic flight controls and digital engine control systems, are
all potentially vulnerable to the EMP effect.
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This paper will review the basic principles and attributes of these
technologies, in relation to bomb and warhead applications. It is stressed
that this treatment is not exhaustive, and is only intended to illustrate how
the technology base can be adapted to an operationally deployable
capability.
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The most commonly used arrangement is that of the coaxial FCG. The
coaxial arrangement is of particular interest in this context, as its
essentially cylindrical form factor lends itself to packaging into munitions.
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generator which produces a uniform plane wave burn (or detonation) front
in the explosive. Once initiated, the front propagates through the explosive
in the armature, distorting it into a conical shape (typically 12 to 14 degrees
of arc). Where the armature has expanded to the full diameter of the
stator, it forms a short circuit between the ends of the stator coil, shorting
and thus isolating the start current source and trapping the current within
the device. The propagating short has the effect of compressing the
magnetic field, whilst reducing the inductance of the stator winding. The
result is that such generators will producing a ramping current pulse,
which peaks before the final disintegration of the device. Published results
suggest ramp times of tens to hundreds of microseconds, specific to the
characteristics of the device, for peak currents of tens of MegaAmperes and
peak energies of tens of Mega Joules.
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Whilst FCGs are potent technology base for the generation of large
electrical power pulses, the output of the FCG is by its basic physics
constrained to the frequency band below 1 MHz. Many target sets will be
difficult to attack even with very high power levels at such frequencies;
moreover focussing the energy output from such a device will be
problematic. A HPM device overcomes both of the problems, as its output
power may be tightly focussed and it has a much better ability to couple
energy into many target types.
The physics of the Vircator tube are substantially more complex than
those of the preceding devices. The fundamental idea behind the Vircator
is that of accelerating a high current electron beam against a mesh (or foil)
anode. Many electrons will pass through the anode, forming a bubble of
space charge behind the anode. Under the proper conditions, this space
charge region will oscillate at microwave frequencies. If the space charge
region is placed into a resonant cavity which is appropriately tuned, very
high peak powers may be achieved. Conventional microwave engineering
techniques may then be used to extract microwave power from the
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This is for good reasons. The first is that target types are very diverse
in their electromagnetic hardness, or ability to resist damage. Equipment
which has been intentionally shielded and hardened against
electromagnetic attack will withstand orders of magnitude greater field
strengths than standard commercially rated equipment..
The second major problem area in determining lethality is that of coupling
efficiency, which is a measure of how much power is transferred from the
field produced by the weapon into the target. Only power coupled into the
target can cause useful damage.
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as the near fields in the vicinity of a flux generator are of the order of
magnitude of the coercivity of most modern magnetic materials.
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The first is sweeping the frequency or chirping the Vircator. This can
improve coupling efficiency in comparison with a single frequency weapon,
by enabling the radiation to couple into apertures and resonances over a
range of frequencies. In this fashion, a larger number of coupling
opportunities are exploited.
between the size of the lethal footprint and the intensity of the
electromagnetic field in that footprint. This provides the option of
sacrificing weapon coverage to achieve kills against targets of greater
electromagnetic hardness, for a given bomb size (Fig.7, 8). This is not
unlike the use of airburst explosive devices. In summary, lethality is
maximized by maximizing power output and the efficiency of energy
transfer from the weapon to the target set. Microwave weapons offer the
ability to focus nearly all of their energy output into the lethal footprint,
and offer the ability to exploit a wider range of coupling modes. Therefore,
microwave bombs are the preferred choice.
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communications nodes and naval vessels are all good examples of this
category of target. While radiating, their positions can be precisely tracked
with suitable Electronic Support Measures (ESM) and Emitter Locating
Systems (ELS) carried either by the launch platform or a remote
surveillance platform. In the latter instance target coordinates can be
continuously data linked to the launch platform. As most such targets
move relatively slowly, they are unlikely to escape the footprint of the
electromagnetic bomb during the weapon's flight time.
sacrifice in airframe fuel capacity could see this size increased. A limitation
in all such applications is the need to carry an electrical energy storage
device, egg a battery, to provide the current used to charge the capacitors
used to prime the FCG prior to its discharge. Therefore the available
payload capacity will be split between the electrical storage and the
weapon itself.
capacitor bank can be charged by the launch aircraft enroute to target, and
after release a much smaller onboard power supply could be used to
maintain the charge in the priming source prior to weapon initiation.
television guided munitions, they are still quite accurate and importantly,
cheap, autonomous all weather weapons.
The importance of glide bombs as delivery means for HPM warheads is
threefold. Firstly, the glide bomb can be released from outside effective
radius of target air defences, therefore minimising the risk to the launch
aircraft. Secondly, the large standoff range means that the aircraft can
remain well clear of the bomb's effects. Finally the bomb's autopilot may be
programmed to shape the terminal trajectory of the weapon, such that a
target may be engaged from the most suitable altitude and aspect.
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networks for voice, data and services should employ topologies with
sufficient redundancy and failover mechanisms to allow operation with
multiple nodes and links inoperative. This will deny a user of
electromagnetic bombs the option of disabling large portions if not the
whole of the network by taking down one or more key nodes or links with
a single or small number of attacks.
8. EFFECTS OF E BOMB
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10 . CONCLUSIONS
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Because E-bombs can cause hard electrical kills over larger areas
than conventional explosive weapons of similar mass, they offer substantial
economies in force size for a given level of inflicted damage, and are thus a
potent force multiplier for appropriate target sets.
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Bibliography
www.popularmechanics.com
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www.pcmag.com
www.geocities.com
www.globalsecurityzz.com
www.foxnews.com
www.alphalink.com
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