Electromagnetic Bomb

The next Pearl Harbor will not announce itself with a searing flash of
nuclear light or with the plaintive wails of those dying of Ebola or its
genetically engineered twin. You will hear a sharp crack in the distance. By
the time you mistakenly identify this sound as an innocent clap of thunder,
the civilized world will have become unhinged.

Fluorescent lights and television sets will glow eerily bright, despite being
turned off. The aroma of ozone mixed with smoldering plastic will seep
from outlet covers as electric wires arc and telephone lines melt. Your
Palm Pilot and MP3 player will feel warm to the touch, their batteries
overloaded.

Your computer, and every bit of data on it, will be toast. And then you will
notice that the world sounds different too. The background music of
civilization, the whirl of internal-combustion engines, will have stopped.
Save a few diesels, engines will never start again. You, however, will
remain unharmed, as you find yourself thrust backward 200 years, to a
time when electricity meant a lightning bolt fracturing the night sky.
Anyone who's been through a prolonged power outage knows that it's an
extremely trying experience. Within an hour of losing electricity, you
develop a healthy appreciation of all the electrical devices you rely on in
life.
A couple hours later, you start pacing around your house. After a few days
without lights, electric heat or TV, your stress level shoots through the
roof. But in the grand scheme of things, that's nothing. If an outage hits an
entire city, and there aren't adequate emergency resources, people may
die from exposure, companies may suffer huge productivity losses and
millions of dollars of food may spoil.
If a power outage hit on a much larger scale, it could shut down the

electronic networks that keep governments and militaries running. We are

utterly dependent on power, and when it's gone, things get very bad, very
fast.
An electromagnetic bomb, or e-bomb, is a weapon designed to take
advantage of this dependency. But instead of simply cutting off power in
an area, an e-bomb would actually destroy most machines that use
electricity.
Generators would be useless, cars wouldn't run, and there would be no
chance of making a phone call. In a matter of seconds, a big enough ebomb could thrust an entire city back 200 years or cripple a military
unit. ..

1. The E-bomb - A Weapon of Electrical Mass Destruction

2. l Introduction.
l E-bomb technology base. l Physics of the FCG. l External
sources. l FCG internals. l FCG operations. l Coupling modes. l
Damage mechanism.
l Advantages over ordinary bomb. l Conclusion.

3. Introduction:
l It is a Future weapon i.e. they are a more suitable weapon than
conventional weapon to achieve shock effect over large target
sets with small attacking forces.
l Electromagnetic bombs (E-bombs) can perform such a role.
l The objective is to paralyze the enemys communication
systems as quickly as possible.

4. Power supply
co-axial Pulse capacitor FCGs shaping battery bank Electromag
netic pulses
network Vircator tube Microwave antenna

5. E-bomb Technology Base:

l Power source - Explosively pumped Flux Compression
Generator (FCG).
l FCG invented by Los Alamos Labs during the 1950s.
l Peak current of an FCG is 1000 X that of a typical lightning
stroke.

6. The Physics of the FCG:

- FCG transfers mechanical energy into the magnetic field
- Peak currents of Mega Amperes demonstrated in many
experiments

7. FCG start current is provided by an external source:

l High voltage capacitor bank
l MHD (magneto hydrodynamic) device
l Any device that generate mega amperes current pulse.
8. FCG Internals:
l Armature - Copper tube / fast explosive l Stator - Helical heavy
wire coil
l Initiator - Plane wave explosive lense
l Jacket -Prevents disintegration due to magnetic forces

9. FCG Operation:
l External power source pumps FCG winding with start current.
l When start current peaks, explosive lense fired to initiate
explosive burn.

l Explosive pressure expands armature and creates moving short

l Moving armature compresses magnetic field

10. Coupling Modes:

Front Door Coupling through antennas. l Destroys RF
semiconductor devices in transmitters and receivers
Back Door Coupling through power/data cabling, telephone
wiring
l Destroys exposed semiconductor devices l Punches through
isolation transformers.

11. Damage Mechanisms:

l Low frequency pulses produced by FCG create high voltage
spikes on fixed wiring infrastructure.
l Microwave radiation from HPM devices can couple directly
through ventilation grilles, gaps between panels, poor interface
shielding - producing a spatial standing wave inside the
equipment cavity.

12. Maximising Bomb Lethality:

Lethality is maximized by maximizing the power coupled into
the target set.
l Maximize peak power and duration of warhead emission (using
powerful FCG).
l Maximize coupling efficiency into target set.

13. Defenses Against E-bombs:

l Destroy the delivery vehicle or launch platform
l Electromagnetically harden important assets.
14. E-bomb Advantages in Strategic Warfare
l Not lethal to humans.
l Negligible collateral damage.

l No mass media coverage of bombing casualties (broadcast

equipment destroyed) will reduce the threshold for the use of
strategic air power and missile forces

15. Conclusions:
l High payoff in using E-bombs against fundamental
infrastructure, resulting in substantial paralysis.
l E-bombs will become a decisive capability in Strategic Warfare
and Electronic Combat.
l E-bombs are a non-lethal weapon.
l The critical issues for the next decade are the deployment of Ebombs and the hardening of fundamental infrastructure.

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PRESENTATION

TOPIC : ELECTRO-MAGNETIC
BOMB

BYVIJAY S
ELECTRICAL AND
ELECTRONICS
ENGINEERING
MVJ COLLEGE OF
ENGINEERING