Re: Disrupter beam

[c a l i b a n <caliban@sharon.net>]

	not pure sci fi.  emf pulse weapon technology 
	is available, just seldom deployed.  it's a 
	bitch to aim.

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Brett Dikeman wrote:

]You guys have been watching "Viper" and "Goldeneye" waaaay too much.
]
]Pure Sci Fi, and that line about airports and dodge caravans...pure BS...
]
]Brett
]
]> I remember a little device that was being tested for police use a while
]> back...
]> It was a small rocket propelled (?) device that would be mounted at the
]> bottom of the front spoiler a la James Bond, and if the police were
]> involved in a high speed chase, when they got to a less populated area
]> they could launch this thing at the car in front of them.  It would get
]> under the engine bay and start letting off horrendous bursts of EMI or
]> something that would fry any electronic components (i.e. ECU, ignition
]> controls, etc) of the car so it would stall.
]> Pretty neat...I wonder if anyone uses these yet?
]> --
]> Elliott
]>
]> Brandon Hull wrote:
]>>
]>> >my conclusion
]>> >is that I must have driven through some kind of force field >that
]>> temporarily
]>> >disabled the ignition system of the car.
]>>
]>> Maybe not ludicrous.  Reading C&D or R&T, or something in a barbershop chair
]>> not too far back, I remember an article wherein the editor's rental Dodge
]>> Caravan refused to start after an overnight in an airport parking lot.  When
]>> the tow truck driver saw the car, he said that this happened "all the time"
]>> with late model Chryslers, and the Dodge mechanics concurred.  "Something"
]>> in the blizzard of radio signals engulfing the car disabled the ignition.
]>>
]>> Brandon Hull
]>> Anyone know a good source for lead foil?
]
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]Brett Dikeman
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