Greetings Hickers and Snickers,
Microwave RADAR as a weapon.
Ok, now, in order to get a radar system to do what Richard and Eric are
talking about (cooking the enemy) you are going to need some heavy duty
power to do so. Comparable to intensities found in your good old
microwave oven.
Ok, now, I never took a Jackson course, but I have talked to those who
have. Specifically one of my old profs who kinda liked to play around
with putting coiled copper wire into the oven. What happened, was that
the wire would be driven by the microwaves, and induce a rather strong
current along the wire. The wire would overheat and burn. The flame
produced would dance around inside the oven, and had a strong tendancy
to be pulled up to the top of the machine.
What was happening, was the microwaves were setting up a VERY strong
EM field. The flame (low temp plasma) was being affected by that field.
The field drew the plasma up to the microwave emmitter. Consequently,
the emmitter was being blasted with flame.
Ok, now let's imagine this system deployed as a weapon. The EM field
is going to act as a waveguide. It will draw any plasma up to the
source of the field.
So, assuming, that your opponants don't have reflec, or combat armor
or some sort of insulation around them, or don't have a few radar
seeking missiles hanging around, but they DO have a plasma gun, all
they would have to do is point it vaguely at the target, and the
plasma bolt will be drawn up to the emmitter. FRAZK!
Oh, BTW, Eric, a friend of my father's was one of the unfortunates who
was in the US embassy in Moscow when the Soviets were bombarding the
place with microwaves. Two years ago, he suddenly developed cancer and
died within a few weeks. I believe there was some speculation as to the
source of the cancer being related. I'll look into it.
Scott 2G Kellogg [email removed]
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"What did we do to deserve this?"