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Topic started on 16-2-2004 @ 11:22 AM by Wgatenson
Here is an article I found about a super EM weapon that the soviets developed in the 60's!

www.totse.com...

As a consequence of the Soviet breakthrough and decades of feverish development, monstrous strategic weapons undreamed of in the West are already in Soviet hands. A noose is slowly and steadily being tightened about our throats, and it is already the 11th hour.....


The NASA shuttle launches provided an convenient opportunity for Soviet testing of these superweapons in a launch phase ABM mode, where a launched missile can be detected and destroyed shortly after liftoff. At first, electromagnetic pulse (EMP) bursts on the early shuttle trajectory were deliberately delayed in time, to prevent actual destruction of the target and avoid alerting the U.S. that something unusual was happening.

The shuttle launch of November 26, 1985 saw a particularly significant test of this kind. In this case, a very loud "sonic boom" or explosion occurred over the launch site 12 minutes after shuttle liftoff, when the shuttle was already away and downrange.

At least two previous shuttle launches had also been used as pseudotargets, with delayed booms occurring over the launch site well behind the vehicles...


reply posted on 19-2-2004 @ 11:59 AM by bios electric
Originally posted by xMaDHaTTeRx
I would bet money that the U.S. has a bigger and better one of these than Russia. This is old technology guys.


History has shown that Russia tries to outdo the US with sheer size or volume or performance.

Examples run rampant... the 300 megaton weapon they tested a 25% yeild, the largest nuke ever tested.
The Energya heavy lift rocket, the mach 3 MiG-25 Foxbat, the radar on the Migs back in the 1970's was so powerful it cooked birds on the runway, and the list goes on.

The difference however is philoshophical and qualitative.
Example:
while the USSR was developing a nuke that could make the entire northeastern US a crater, the US was working on better guidance systems and even neutron technology that leaves buildings standing and turns the enemy into ashes.

While the USSR had a radar so powerful that it fried sparrows and crows on the runway, the US was working on less potent radars that were not as easily detected by ground stations.

While the USSR was building the fastest "known" interceptor in history, (the A-12 variant not mentioned as it never saw official duty) the US pursued more reliable airframes and avionics and developed weaponry that could take care of a mach 3 interceptor.

If I were to suggest one thing for Russia's future development it would be in one word. Finesse.
Forget about the biggest, fastest, etc. Let quality be your religion.
I could go on but I need to do lunch.




[Edited on 21-2-2004 by bios electric]


reply posted on 20-2-2004 @ 12:28 AM by intelgurl
Originally posted by Hamilton
Originally posted by intelgurl
It seems to me that the Soviet Union would not have gone bankrupt had they had this technology.


Why would they? If there is one thing Russia is reknown for, it is their morale of work. Their pride in keeping the nation running. Where else could you run a whole army, fully operational, without paying the soldiers their salery for months?
Blessings,
Mikromarius

I don't really get what you're saying here, other than the greedy American's won't work unless for money and Russians have such a high work ethic that they'll work without pay; a statement which regretfully may have some amount of truth to it, but has absolutely nothing to do with the point i was making.

The fact is the Soviet Union did go bankrupt... that's why it is the CIS now.

My contention is that if the Soviets had done heavy research in Tesla type weapons as the original post and link to this thread assert, then there certainly would have been offshoot technologies that would have been lucrative on international markets, thus propelling the USSR to the forefront of the worlds' tech markets instead of falling flat on it's financial face.

Marketable offshoot technologies have been the positive economic result of all the major revolutionary tech/industrial research programs in the last century or more.

Therefore the Tesla tech the Russians may have embraced could have been less robust than claimed.



[Edited on 20-2-2004 by intelgurl]
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