China Building Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons For Use Against US Naval Carriers
Blasts thwart all electronics
China’s military is developing electromagnetic pulse weapons that Beijing plans to use against U.S. aircraft carriers in any future conflict over Taiwan, according to an intelligence report made public on Thursday.
Portions of a National Ground Intelligence Center study on the lethal effects of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and high-powered microwave (HPM) weapons revealed that the arms are part of China’s so-called “assassin’s mace” arsenal – weapons that allow a technologically inferior China to defeat U.S. military forces.
EMP weapons mimic the gamma-ray pulse caused by a nuclear blast that knocks out all electronics, including computers and automobiles, over wide areas. The phenomenon was discovered in 1962 after an aboveground nuclear test in the Pacific disabled electronics in Hawaii.
The declassified intelligence report, obtained by the private National Security Archive, provides details on China’s EMP weapons and plans for their use. Annual Pentagon reports on China’s military in the past made only passing references to the arms.
“For use against Taiwan, China could detonate at a much lower altitude (30 to 40 kilometers) … to confine the EMP effects to Taiwan and its immediate vicinity and minimize damage to electronics on the mainland,” the report said.
The report, produced in 2005 and once labeled “secret,” stated that Chinese military writings have discussed building low-yield EMP warheads, but “it is not known whether [the Chinese] have actually done so.” source - Washington Times
| Print article | This entry was posted by NTEB News Desk on July 22, 2011 at 9:58 am, and is filed under China, End Times. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site. |
US Under Obama Loses Top Producer Title To China
about 3 months ago - 68 comments
China surpassed the U.S. to become the world’s biggest trading nation last year as measured by the sum of exports and imports of goods, official figures from both countries show. U.S. exports and imports of goods last year totaled $3.82 trillion, the U.S. Commerce Department said last week. China’s customs administration reported last month that…
US Remains Silent As United Nations Works To Place Internet Under ‘International Control’
about 1 year ago - 11 comments
On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet. Russian PM Vladimir Putin said his goal and that of his allies is to establish “international control over the Internet” through the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a treaty-based organization under U.N. auspices.
EXPOSED! Satellite Photo Reveals China’s First Aircraft Carrier At Sea
about 1 year ago - 4 comments
A commercial satellite operator says it has captured a rare image of China’s first aircraft carrier as it sailed through the Yellow Sea, after going through an exercise that’s the 21st-century equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack.
China President Hu Urges Navy To PREPARE FOR WAR
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday urged the navy to prepare for military combat amid growing regional tensions over maritime disputes and a US campaign to assert itself as a Pacific power.
Is China Preparing For War Using Space Satellites?
about 1 year ago - 15 comments
A Google Maps satellite has spotted a series of bizarre structures during a sweep of the Gobi desert in China. The internet is buzzing with theories about what their purpose is, with suggestions ranging from giant QR readers to practise targets for military satellites.
Is China Planning a Surprise Missile Attack On United States?
about 1 year ago - 12 comments
A retired Chinese general recently revealed that his country might be planning a surprise missile attack on the United States. The public comment of Xu Guangyu came in response to WikiLeaks revelations that last year Washington had warned its allies beforehand of China’s test of a missile interceptor.
America’s #1 Export Under Obama? DEBT!
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
Vice President Biden will tout the debt ceiling deal during a trip to China and Japan, two holders of huge amounts of U.S. debt. Biden will travel to top lender China on Wednesday and to Japan, the second-biggest holder of U.S. bonds, on Aug. 22. The vice president “will be in a good position to talk about the very strong deficit package that we concluded here recently,” Undersecterary of the Treasury Lael Brainard told reporters Monday in comments previewing the vice president’s visit.
Unholy Trinity: Iran Joins Russia & China At Summit
about 1 year ago - 6 comments
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday joined the Chinese and Russian leaders in a rare encounter at a summit in Kazakhstan, where he launched a new attack on the “slavers and colonisers” of the West. Host Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev urged the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a security group regarded as a NATO rival founded in 2001, to take a more active role in ensuring regional security. But most attention was focused on Ahmadinejad, who was absent from last year’s SCO meeting in Tashkent after the UN Security Council agreed sanctions against Iran and was making a rare appearance at a big international meeting.
China Says US Has Begun To Default On It’s Debt
about 1 year ago - 4 comments
A Chinese ratings house has accused the United States of defaulting on its massive debt, state media said Friday, a day after Beijing urged Washington to put its fiscal house in order. Washington had already defaulted on its loans by allowing the dollar to weaken against other currencies — eroding the wealth of creditors including China, Guan said. Guan did not immediately respond to AFP requests for comment.
China Gaining Military Edge Over US
about 1 year ago - 4 comments
You need only look across the Pacific and see what [China] is doing, not just their air force capability, but their surface-to-air [missile] capability, their ballistic missile capability, their anti-ship ballistic missiles, and new missiles that can reach U.S. bases in Guam and Japan. The threat from Chinese advanced weapons, including new stealth fighters and ballistic missiles, dominated concerns expressed by senior military officers at a Senate hearing this week on the military impact of delays and problems with the new fifth-generation F-35 jet.
about 1 year ago
Do you want to stop China? Repent, stop homosexualism and lesbianism, come back to God!
about 1 year ago
Amen. repent from your ways and turn to God, otherwise you are going to face His full wrath.
about 1 year ago
The U.S. should begin working on a Anti-Electromagnetic Pulse Refractor using a grant from China
about 1 year ago
Where in this does it specify that they are doing so in order to use the weapons against the US as the title of the article claims? I’m not saying that it isn’t potentially possible, but at the same time stating it as fact when it is soley a possibility is very deceptive and is only a move towards proving right those on her that have accused NTEB of being “sensationally” deceptive with their titles in order to attempt to get people to read them.
about 1 year ago
Is that like Electronic Battleship?
about 1 year ago
Didn’t an EMP attack already occur on the west coast of the United States?
about 1 year ago
EMP attacks are a huge discussion. I’ve been looking into them constantly for the past few months because I want to get as much knowledge and preparedness as I can. One really great site I’ve come across is actually a Radio Show. They have new people come on their show every Wednesday and talk about EMP and a bunch of other important things that have to do with EMP. This week two guests are going to be on the show (I looked at the website) Reza Kahlili and Fred Fleitz, it should be very informative. Here’s the link if you want to listen to it: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/empact-radio/2011/07/27/pvp59-two-guests–reza-kahlili-and-fred-fleitz
about 1 year ago
Read about a possible EMP scenario
Iran, EMP & The First US Dollar War
http://lewrockwell.com/holland/holland49.1.html