DOD Announces EMP DRILL November 4-6th

[FGB]

DOD Announces EMP DRILL November 4-6th



DoD Plans Solar-Storm-Based National Blackout Drill During Antifa Protests In November

According to The National Association for Amateur Radio (ARRL), elements of the US Department of Defense (DOD) will simulate a “communications interoperability” training exercise across the United States on November 04-06. The announcement released on October 24 has not been widely distributed to the media, because the drill is simulating a total grid collapse and could spark public fear.

http://robinwestenra.********.com/2017/10/warning-dod-announces-emp-drill.html

So they are going to turn the lights off?

 

[RobDownSouth]

I hope Que's Starbucks wifi connection is not adversely affected.

 

[FGB]

I hope Que's Starbucks wifi connection is not adversely affected.

Hell.

Me too!

 

[RobDownSouth]

Hell.

Me too!

You know how.....fussy.... he gets when he can't make his self-imposed 200+ shitposts-per-day quota.

 

[pointless]

https://www.snopes.com/dod-drill-coincide-november-demonstrations/

hanks for your email. Yes the ARRL announcement about this exercise is legitimate. The coronal mass ejection scenario is simulated…notional. Resulting from the CME is the simulated…notional power and communication outages. These events are all notional…simulated. There is no actual power or comms outages that will occur in conjunction with this exercise. We have done this exercise every quarter since 2013. Our primary focus is to work with the amateur radio operators to collect real world county status reports…basically are the lights on…is water still running…how’s the medical situation at hospitals…etc.

The average citizen will not even know this exercise is taking place. Our focus is to interoperate with the amateur radio commun

 

[RobDownSouth]

https://www.snopes.com/dod-drill-coincide-november-demonstrations/

Well now, THAT's a relief. I guess the tip-off should've been FGB linking to a banhammered source, now that I look at it.

Darn, no situational outrage this week.

 

[Wats_butthole]

DOD Announces EMP DRILL November 4-6th



DoD Plans Solar-Storm-Based National Blackout Drill During Antifa Protests In November

According to The National Association for Amateur Radio (ARRL), elements of the US Department of Defense (DOD) will simulate a “communications interoperability” training exercise across the United States on November 04-06. The announcement released on October 24 has not been widely distributed to the media, because the drill is simulating a total grid collapse and could spark public fear.

http://robinwestenra.********.com/2017/10/warning-dod-announces-emp-drill.html

So they are going to turn the lights off?

Solar flares? That's science and that isn't allowed in trumps America.

 

[cfuhrer]

It's a shame more folks don't take the possibility / threat seriously.

 

[Sean]

It's a shame more folks don't take the possibility / threat seriously.

I remember Byron trying to claim it could never happen and had never happened in the past. Until I bitchslapped him with some actual facts.

 

[cfuhrer]

I remember Byron trying to claim it could never happen and had never happened in the past. Until I bitchslapped him with some actual facts.

The worst case scenario can be scary stuff. And here we are, as a people, with our collective head in the sand and our ass up in the air waiting to be bit.

Months before publication, One Second After was already cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. It has been discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a realistic look at EMPs and their awesome ability to send catastrophic shockwaves throughout the United States, literally within seconds.

 

[Hypoxia]

Do any other nations run EMP drills?

 

[jaF0]

OK, here's the thing ....

If there is a pulse that does that kind of damage, radios won't work either. Or anything electronic including most newer vehicles. Generators and larger batteries may not work either.

So, what are they practicing here? Semaphore with flags?

 

[Sean]

OK, here's the thing ....

If there is a pulse that does that kind of damage, radios won't work either. Or anything electronic including most newer vehicles. Generators and larger batteries may not work either.

So, what are they practicing here? Semaphore with flags?

If the equipment isn't actually plugged in when it hits, there's a good chance it will still work.

 

[jaF0]

If the equipment isn't actually plugged in when it hits, there's a good chance it will still work.

Some tube types might. Unless the coils blow. Anything with an IC probably won't.

 

[FGB]

Hey I just posted the first Link with pictures that I found.

A delivery guy at work was talking about people discussing it across several counties here in East Texas.

I was pretty sure it would be dissected and debunked if I brought it here and many sides and side roads explored.

I'm satisfied...

 

[Sean]

Some tube types might. Unless the coils blow. Anything with an IC probably won't.

I was doing some reading on this a while ago and it's very hard to find recent researc h in the public domain. I'm sure the military have done a lot but they aint talking.

 

[DrDelirium]

I was doing some reading on this a while ago and it's very hard to find recent researc h in the public domain. I'm sure the military have done a lot but they aint talking.

The research I've seen (and yes, it's out of date) seemed to indicate that the relationship between conductor length and thickness was pretty critical, as well as orientation to the blast epicenter. Short, thick things have greater survivability, and things of marginal survivability oriented in line with the EMP propagation wave are more likely to be toast than the same things at right angles. Stuff with power already flowing is more vulnerable than if it's off. So land lines and the power grid are vulnerable, and electronics that are switched on. Other stuff, considerably less so. If you're really concerned, turn your house into a Faraday cage. As a bonus, it will also keep the government from controlling your mind with microwaves.

 

[cfuhrer]

things of marginal survivability oriented in line with the EMP propagation wave are more likely to be toast than the same things at right angles.

Learn something new every day.

 

[Hypoxia]

If you're really concerned, turn your house into a Faraday cage. As a bonus, it will also keep the government from controlling your mind with microwaves.

That's very important since the govt's mind-control ray frequencies are amplified, not blocked, by tinfoil hats.

Alternative: live in a cave. Or go whole-hog on earth-berming. Aren't some surplus ICBM sites still for sale? Those should be pretty secure.

 

[wheres_the_beef]

I love the MARS program announcement on Facebook cited by Snopes. Turning off the entire electrical grid is "way above my pay grade" and "Keeping track of the various protest groups calendar of events is more than a little out of our lane." It's the kind of things that probably shouldn't need to be said but....

Earlier this year NORTHCOM managed to conduct it's annual exercise to ensure forces were trained and certified to respond to an isolated nuclear attack in the US. They even manage to hold the exercise without annually nuking an American city. Imagine that.

 

[DrDelirium]

That's very important since the govt's mind-control ray frequencies are amplified, not blocked, by tinfoil hats.

Alternative: live in a cave. Or go whole-hog on earth-berming. Aren't some surplus ICBM sites still for sale? Those should be pretty secure.

But what if the targeting processors on those old Soviet missiles haven't been updated?

 

[Hypoxia]

But what if the targeting processors on those old Soviet missiles haven't been updated?

Then they'll only miss by 12 mi / 20 km. Those old Soviet systems left a bit to be desired.

In the late 80s the computer magazine BYTE did a feature issue on Iron-Curtain computation. At the time, Western hard-disks commonly listed bad sectors to program around. In Russia and East Germany (who built better) not only drives had errata sheets -- so did microprocessors. Each individual chip had a list of specified instructions it could not execute. That meant each microcomputer had to be custom hard-coded to do what it barely could, and not with the greatest mathematical precision. So Tokyo-bound missiles might hit Beijing. Oops. Sorry 'bout that, comrades.

 

[richard_daily]

I hope Que's Starbucks wifi connection is not adversely affected.

Pretty sure he's using the wifi at micky d's.

 

[DrDelirium]

Then they'll only miss by 12 mi / 20 km. Those old Soviet systems left a bit to be desired.

In the late 80s the computer magazine BYTE did a feature issue on Iron-Curtain computation. At the time, Western hard-disks commonly listed bad sectors to program around. In Russia and East Germany (who built better) not only drives had errata sheets -- so did microprocessors. Each individual chip had a list of specified instructions it could not execute. That meant each microcomputer had to be custom hard-coded to do what it barely could, and not with the greatest mathematical precision. So Tokyo-bound missiles might hit Beijing. Oops. Sorry 'bout that, comrades.

Propaganda, I'm afraid. The road-launched Topol, with .8 megaton warhead, was brought into service in 1985 and has a CEP of 200 meters. Still in use today.
The 1986 Voevoda, with 10 MIRVed .8 megaton warheads, has a CEP of 220 meters. Still in use today.
However, difficulty in updating targeting data only underscores my point.

 

[richard_daily]

OK, here's the thing ....

If there is a pulse that does that kind of damage, radios won't work either. Or anything electronic including most newer vehicles. Generators and larger batteries may not work either.

So, what are they practicing here? Semaphore with flags?

If electronics are stored properly (in a Faraday cage) they'll be fine.