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To: Snowshoe who wrote (46499)	9/24/2002 7:02:21 AM
From: spiral3	Respond to of 281500

The hugely successful satellite-based technology that has enabled a growing number of U.S. bombs to hit their targets may be vulnerable to a kind of jammer available through the Internet for $39.99. Remember NASA’s zero gravity ball point pen, developed at a cost of about a million bucks. The pen worked, and it enjoyed some popularity as a novelty item here on earth. The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil. "We believe Saddam Hussein has GPS-jamming capability and that he will use it," says Rep. Joseph Pitts (R., Penn.). fwiw September 13, 2002; The British Royal Air Force has developed and tested its own conventional warhead able to generate an electro-magnetic pulse. Some of the tests were done in the US, and US officials have said that the British weapon works better than the one they are trying to develop. The weapon is carried to the target area by a cruise missile or unmanned aircraft and detonated. Its pulse of electromagnetic radiation can disable or destroy computers, communications equipment (radios, switchboards), radars, and possibly power plants. It is assumed that such weapons would be used in the first wave of attacks against Iraq.--Stephen V Cole strategypage.com