"A single attack can paralyze the entire United States, destroy its power grids and infrastructure, and blackout the United States for a year, deterring no less than nuclear weapons." Vincent, an expert on the U.S. Homeland Security Task Force, said. So does this weapon really exist? Is it really as powerful as it claims? If not, what is Vincent's purpose in saying this?
Electromagnetic weapons, which are usually only often seen in science fiction works, generally exist only in people's imagination. For example, the shock beam emitted by the palm of Iron Man in the Marvel movie, the electromagnetic cannon fired by the Star Wars aircraft carrier and so on. So in reality, do electromagnetic bombs really exist? The answer is yes.
Electromagnetic bombs, as the name suggests, are powerful weapons that use powerful electromagnetic pulses to interfere with the operation of other electronic facilities. Its basic principle is to trigger high-energy electromagnetic pulses through a huge explosion, these electromagnetic pulses will be absorbed by the conductive metal of the way into current to continue to transmit, with the continuous increase in intensity, the current and voltage conducted by these conductive metals will continue to increase, transformers and circuits will be destroyed due to overload, so as to achieve the purpose of interfering with or even paralyzing all electronic information systems within a radius of tens of kilometers.
As an electromagnetic jamming weapon, if an electromagnetic bomb is successfully detonated in a city, the city will soon be paralyzed. At that time, the entire power supply system will not be able to operate due to interference; urban traffic and lighting equipment will not work; mobile phones, all electronic devices, including computers, will be burned by overloaded internal voltages. The factory cannot operate, the daily water cannot be provided, and the heating cannot be supplied. Not only will work stop, but even people's need to survive will become a problem. Human society will instantly set back 200 years, and all citizens will be overwhelmed like headless flies and plunged into great panic.
With the advent of the electronic information age, people have gradually adapted to the convenience brought by modern living facilities, food, clothing, housing, work, entertainment, social networking, which are inseparable from the help of electricity. Occasional power outages can cause a commotion, not to mention a prolonged power outage throughout the city. After being hit by electromagnetic bombs, the city's transportation and communication systems failed, people could not leave, information could not be transmitted, and managers could not communicate the specific situation to the people. Panic caused by the unknown spread through the crowd, and it only took two days to completely control a modern civilized city, which no other weapon could do.
Not only is electricity inseparable from daily life, but the modernization war is indispensable to the support of electricity and networks. As we all know, most of the modern military command system relies on various electronic equipment to operate. Once disturbed by electromagnetic bombs, the entire chain of command will be paralyzed. Not only that, but powerful and modern weapons such as aircraft, tanks, and battleships will also be scrapped due to damage to circuits. In such a situation, a modern force would regress to pre-World War II levels in a short period of time. It can be said that once either party uses electromagnetic weapons first, it will be a devastating blow to the other party that is hit by electromagnetic bombs. Do you think that's the end of it? No, electromagnetic bombs are far more powerful than that.
First of all, electromagnetic bombs can be unaffected by the weather and will not weaken due to changes in weather. In previous wars, weather has been a crucial factor. In the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao was the one who burned thousands of his warships because of an east wind, and he also lost the tragic end of Huarong Dao. The German army during World War II also did not pay attention to the weather factor, because the cold weather in the Soviet Union led to gasoline solidification, tanks and cars could not drive, and machine guns could not fire, which eventually led to their own failure. In modern warfare, the weather will directly affect the detection of satellite radars, the operation of communications, and the marching process of troops. The electromagnetic weapon has no such worries at all, and can play its maximum role at will.
Not only that, as a large-scale destructive weapon, electromagnetic bombs do not have so high requirements for accuracy. There is no need to strike the target with precision like other conventional weapons, only a large-scale throw at the target can achieve considerable results, even invisible weapons can not escape its sanctions. The principle of stealth weapons is to cover the surface with a special layer of material, absorb electromagnetic waves to achieve the purpose of stealth. However, the powerful electromagnetic waves generated by the electromagnetic bomb when they explode can cover tens of kilometers in all directions without discrimination, and even the stealth aircraft cannot escape the fate of crashing out of control under its powerful electromagnetic waves.
Finally, electromagnetic weapons do not cause direct harm to the human body compared to other weapons. At this time, some people have to ask: Isn't the weapon to pursue greater destructive power? Electromagnetic weapons cannot cause casualties, so what is the use of them? And this is the value of electromagnetic bombs, such as nuclear weapons as we know them, which have long been banned by the international community from being used in war because of their lethality. Moreover, once a nuclear weapon explodes, it will destroy all targets within its range, and the ecological damage caused will be difficult to recover for a hundred years. Electromagnetic bombs are different, they do not cause direct harm to the human body, and their use is not restricted by international treaties. It paralyzes enemy weapons and facilities without damaging items and resources that will become valuable loot for the victors after victory in the war.
So, having said all that, not only does some people have to ask, but how did this powerful weapon come into being and applied to the military field? In fact, as early as World War II, in order to speed up the pace of aggression, Germany and Japan had begun to develop such weapons, but they all ended in failure, and the final successful development was the later United States.
In 1958, the United States organized an anti-satellite hydrogen bomb test, which caused a series of unexpected chain reactions, the shock wave caused by the explosion of the hydrogen bomb was so powerful that the spread range crossed the Pacific Ocean, causing all the lighting facilities in the Hawaiian Islands to be cut off for hundreds of miles, and the entire city fell into darkness. Not only that, but shock waves continued to spread, as far as possible, causing all radio communications equipment along australia's northeastern coast to fail. After investigation, it was found that the mastermind behind the scenes was the electromagnetic pulse caused by this huge explosion. Since then, the United States has begun to develop electromagnetic pulse weapons.
The United States has developed two electromagnetic weapons, the power of which can not be underestimated. One is an electronic bomb and the other is an electromagnetic bomb. Electronic bombs have the characteristics of small size, small enough to be packed in a suitcase, especially suitable for special agents or special forces, once exploded, the electronic equipment within a few kilometers of the radius will all fail due to the interference of electromagnetic pulses. The electron bullet is another more powerful electromagnetic weapon, mainly aimed at the enemy's tank defense system, which can instantly paralyze the enemy's tank troops on the battlefield and achieve extraordinary results. Not only that, the United States not only developed electromagnetic weapons first, but also took the lead in launching electronic warfare in war.
In the sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, NATO, led by the United States, has mobilized more than fifty satellites to reconnoiter all military situations in the Fryingist Union. After obtaining accurate information, the US Air Force dispatched more than a dozen of the most advanced F-117A stealth fighters at that time, carrying dozens of electromagnetic bombs, and carried out precision strikes on the power supply pipelines of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, instantly causing a power outage in 70% of the whole of Yugoslavia, directly paralyzing its communication facilities for several hours, and playing a huge deterrent role.
Later in the Iraq War, the U.S. military used this weapon again. U.S. warships dropped dozens of electromagnetic bombs at Iraq, destroying its power supply and communications facilities, paralyzing the power system in most parts of the country. Moreover, the US military also relied on advanced electronic weapons to focus on Attacking Saddam's underground combat command system, destroying its weapons and facilities, and accelerating Saddam's demise.
After the war, countries around the world saw the terrible features of electromagnetic weapons and began to develop countermeasures against electromagnetic bombs, which can achieve very good results in the vast majority of cases. What many people did not expect was that the United States, which has been researching and applying electromagnetic weapons for many years, has openly claimed that the mainland has developed a powerful electromagnetic weapon, which can paralyze the entire United States and make the United States blackout for up to a year, which is no less powerful than nuclear weapons. In the face of this kind of public rumor-mongering and smearing in the United States, we can only laugh it off.
To ask whether the mainland really possesses powerful electromagnetic weapons, there is no doubt that there must be. In the era of electronic information warfare, powerful electromagnetic weapons are indispensable. Once you don't have it and the other party has it, you will definitely fall into an extremely unfavorable situation against the enemy. As for exaggerated rhetoric like that of the United States, it is completely a figment of the imagination.
From a scientific point of view, a single electromagnetic bomb to paralyze the entire United States is technically unworkable. According to the current level of development of electromagnetic weapons in various countries, an electromagnetic bomb can only interfere with or paralyze the power facilities of a large city to the greatest extent. For example, the Soviet Union tested the explosion of the Tsarist hydrogen bomb "Ivan the Great" with a TNT equivalent of 50 million tons, and the electromagnetic waves generated only caused the communications facilities of a few small European countries in the vicinity to fail for an hour or two. And now such a large amount of nuclear bombs are not common at all, and with such a powerful nuclear bomb, who cares about the electromagnetic interference for one or two hours? So, are Vincent's words really undesirable? In fact, there are extremely complex stakes in this.
First of all, China's decades of development and achievements in the field of electromagnetic weapons have disturbed the US authorities, who are vainly trying to hinder our development in such a shameless way and propagate the so-called threat theory, the fundamental purpose of which is to smear our international image and endanger relations with other countries. Moreover, the Western forces led by the United States often make a big fuss about the mainland's military expenditure, and its spokesman has publicly stated many times: Our military expenditure is too high, which will hinder regional peace and security. However, the real situation is that the military expenditure of the old United States is much higher than ours. Not only that, but this is also the usual means used by the US authorities to divert domestic contradictions, and we must not be fooled by this.
In addition, the US authorities hope to exaggerate the power of weapons and deceive the psychology of the American people, in order to justifiably increase military expenditures, especially funds for weapons research and development, and find excuses for the capitalists to enrich themselves.
Finally, such remarks by U.S. officials show their fragile power system. The construction of the U.S. power supply system and other infrastructure is seriously inconsistent with the level of economic development. Circuits are aging and falling into disrepair in large numbers. In the event of an external attack, the U.S. power supply system is more fragile and more likely to fail than our power facilities.
In recent years, long-term, large-scale power outages have often occurred in some parts of the United States. For example, in February last year, Texas was plunged into an "electricity crisis" by heavy snowfall. As a result, some 4.5 million households and businesses have been affected, and nearly 120,000 people have lost their pumps due to power outages, facing the problem of water supply and power supply interruptions. Recently, Alaska's power supply system has been unable to withstand local natural disasters and led to large-scale power outages, and power generation facilities and transmission facilities have been seriously damaged. The Biden administration, however, was incapable of dealing with the relevant problems in a timely manner, and shamelessly pushed the blame on the hackers.
Therefore, this is undoubtedly a huge hidden danger in the eyes of Vincent, who is a member of the U.S. Homeland Security Group. That's why I came up with an excuse that China's electromagnetic bombs are too powerful to paralyze the United States. When he says paralyzing the United States, he actually means paralyzing the Power System of the United States. Therefore, this kind of remark by the US authorities undoubtedly has the desire to strengthen their own power system.
Therefore, no matter how the US side guides and spreads false remarks, we all adhere to the principle of independent diplomacy, and the original intention of the mainland in developing weapons is for national security, social stability, people's happiness and health, and even more to safeguard world peace. Our national defense science and technology research process will not stop, and in the future, more aspiring young people will join the research and development team and contribute their own strength to China's national defense cause!