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To: Win Smith who wrote (37669)	8/13/2002 5:41:59 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

an unimpeachable source I'll say. When I was a kid, "Popular Mechanics" and "Mechanic's Illustrated" were monthly bibles to me. I kept reading "Mechanic's Illustrated" until their car reviewer,Tom McCahill, finally died. As the article points out, none of these devices do anything to wires or cables. But knocking out the boxes these systems all have to have does the job.

To: Win Smith who wrote (37669)	8/13/2002 5:42:05 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Ultimately, the Army hopes to use E-bomb technology to explode artillery shells in midflight. The Navy wants to use the E-bomb's high-power microwave pulses to neutralize antiship missiles. Now THAT'S ingenious (and I should have thought of the such a usage during previous reading on the subject)!! Artillery shells, and bombs for that matter, become armed in flight, but they are detonated by their piezo-electric actuators making contact with the ground, either on contact, or with a delay). But if you can trigger the P-E actuator prematurely with HERF counter-measures, you theoretically could cause anti-aircraft shells and missiles to explode harmlessly (at least to our folks) well before they reach their intended target. And being able to focus and direct such energy would render many current weapons systems nearly obsolete. Now the problem is that our enemies can build it just as easily as we can. But we're more dependent on such technology... Hmmmm...... Hawk