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>From: caross@acsu.buffalo.edu (Christian Ross)
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Subject: Re: 21st Century Soldier
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Date: 15 Sep 92 14:24:56 GMT
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sdr57@cas.org writes:

>In article <1992Sep14.175430.11621@linus.mitre.org> m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
>>
>>Nah.  A cesium seeded high temperature explosion can generate the electrical
>>pulse through MHD to send the wave through trailing wires.  A use-it-once
>>weapon, but most are.  Fits in a BIG artillery shell.
>>
>That's new to me - can you make the pulse directional by configuring the
>wires? And what kind of pulse strength are we talking here (for the arty)?
>(Inquiring minds want to know:-)
>Stanley "Ya nee speon" Roberts

On a side note...
An interesting idea I once heard was EMP bombs, which would use flux 
compression to generate a wideband microwave/uhf pulse. They detonate an 
explosive which slams an iron core into a charged inductor. How you configure 
the coil I would expect would make the field directional, but as to technical
details such as size of pulse and the exact mechanism I'm not sure.

Supposedly fluences of 1 Watt/sq. Meter is enough to damage unshielded 
microwave diodes, and within a couple orders of magnitude you start frying 
automobile ignition systems, etc...

-- 
Christian A. Ross                |               Student (Physics/Mathematics)
caross@acsu.buffalo.edu          |     State University of New York at Buffalo
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 "A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire


