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http://thehill.com/policy/defense/36...e-threat-to-us
I like Mattis, No BS guy. From my last visit, he is right to a degree. NK can't get a high yield nuke on target at ground level east of the rockies. Given the yields (<1Mt) and accuracy (+-10 miles), they don't have an effective city strike system But they sure can get a high altitude device where they need it. If this goes hot, it will not be a single shot situation. It will be everything including the kitchen sink. That is why Bio and delivery systems have been discussed. This isn't going to be a kind/gentile situation. He will lose but so will we. Is he crazy? About like the guy that shot up a church or concert. |
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I like your ending there.one thing nobody,including me ,ever really thought about. Do we really understand his motivation? Did we understand any mass killers motivation? Sure we can blame it on religion for some .do we know if kimmy believes he is a God and will survive ? Like snack bars think they will get virgins ,he may believe he will cleanse the earth of undesirables .
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If one of those civilization ending genies mentioned in this long discussion gets let out of the bottle, you will find yourself and your 'tribe' on one of three lists.
1. Dead 2. Ill or injured and soon to be dead. 3. Survivor Plan accordingly.
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2. Not being prepared, dependent upon the government comes to mind quickly. 3. Lucky, someone else got hit with the initial kill shot, time to bring out the preps, get into a mask, get into your hide hole, with food, water, ammo and time to change into survival mode in ones head.
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My problem ,besides being close to mcdill afb, is my 2sons live in the denial zone and don't believe anything will ever happen and can't wrap their mind around it.im okay with that,it's their life and they are still young and in that nothing's gonna get me phase.they live closer to mcdill than I do.in fact one sees the planes from there fly right over his house sometimes .so my preps gotta be on the down low to keep from upsetting everyone.most fall into the hurricane prep stuff and I can get them to do that.so if your relatives don't believe like us try and get them to prep for other disasters .i mentioned to my youngest who's in med school about getting gas masks in case something happened . he said they are given a fitted mask that's custom made for them to keep out tb ,and any other foreign agent. My main concern I'm going to talk about at Christmas is for them to meet at my house if anything happens
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I'm surprised we haven't been doing that. Kim is getting practice launching, we should be getting some TBMD practice for only the cost of the interceptor. Everyone wins, right? (That's for our liberal friends who are all about being equal and feeling good and getting their participation ribbon. I don't care if Kim is happy or not.)
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Its just mama and I here, but we've stocked enough for four people for a year, which cost money, time, and forethought. We have a couple of families that will be heading here, we're isolated, if things ever do go sour, but they have their own supplies and the right mind set. Other than them, showing up here, ya better have one hell of a skill set in high demand, if you only have the clothing on your back, like a surgeon. Actually have had friends tell me, ones that could not get thru a power outage for a day, or eat for more than a couple if the trucks stopped running, they planned to gang up on me here. Told them plain, ain't happening and thanks for the warning. Those I'm sure I'd have to deal with harshly.
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Of course the snowflake complained that he had been threatened and Mike got to spend some time in the supervisor's office. He said the look on the other guy's face was totally worth it....
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![]() Same guy once asked how many guns I own. "Need to know, baby, and you don't". I hope all of this never comes to the test, though.
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A female, and very anti-gun, acquaintance once asked me that question. I replied that I did not know. This wasn't a good enough answer for her so I asked her how many pairs of shoes she owned.
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I ain't a prepper, I'm a life long survivalist, and many folks don;t understand that one.
![]() My lovely wife does not fully understand all the ends and outs of survival, but she does exactly what she is told to do when I have what she calls my "monster face" on, like when I go out the front door armed up at O2 dark thirty when something is happening outside. ![]() A ton of snowflakes are going to be in for a rough education, if or when they ever witness many an hard old boy with their monster faces firmly in place. Rule number one, always take care of you and yours first, and never allow anyone to put those in harms way. So many people will hesitate to flip the switch between normal times and harsh times they will end up going down hard. So never hesitate.
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That's why you always carry ---- "but officer, I had no choice - she was attacking me with a dead weapon !".
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How long would it take to harden the grid against an EMP attack? years? If a 'super' EMP were used, could the increased pulse defeat the level of hardening that is currently planned?
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Complex issue. You have the grid itself which will take a year or maybe two if the government can manage to get it's act together. The big issue are the embedded Obomites that are really trying to stop this internally. They are down inside the DOD and control the DOE and FERC.
In the real world fixing the transformers is only part of the issue. The big item are the electronic control modules which control the power plants but also fuel, water etc. Power plant is only good if it can get fuel. The good news is that these systems can be replaced fairly easily, if there are spares. Still large sections of the country maybe down for over a year (look at PR). The enhanced weapons will damage more small systems and burn more homes and strucutres down. You got it, can we get there fast enough? As we go to fix this, it is a destabilizing effect. Use it or lose it from the others side's viewpoint. |
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C2, i would agree, it may come down to a use it or lose it decision. 1 Nuke at low level takes out a city, 1 nuke/super EMP at high altitude takes out an entire developed country, the EMP is now the poor man's nation killer.
If the developed nation becomes hardened against the EMP, the poor man loses his edge and with it likely his life. So it may be, that by increasing efforts to harden against EMP, we have decreased the time left before hostilities begin. Of course it was always only a matter of time. |
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Ireland an article A couple of years ago that showed the UN had given modern computers to the norks as part of some cultural enrichment program. I can't find it now though.
Hell for that matter anyone else remember all the data that got "stolen" during the Clinton years when they rented rooms in the White House out to foreign nationals?
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After thinking about the EMP thing, I realized that there might be another way the bad guys can disable/wreck the USA power grid w/o drama.
SCADA networks and PLC’s control all the switchgear. In spite of the fact that rules are supposed to prohibit connecting the SCADA control networks to the INTERNET, sleepy people don’t want to drive @ no o’clock, so sometimes the plant net and the public net get connected. Supervisor does not want to know how the guys fixed things that night, just that he can tell the suit “we resolved the outage in x hours”. Some places put a firewall up between the plant SCADA net and the public net. False sense of security, firewalls. Even if the SCADA nets are isolated, there is always some guy w/ a flash USB drive in his pocket that gets plugged in to one of the PC’s on the SCADA net, “just to do this upgrade”. What else has he used that flash drive for??? STUXNET- Game Over.
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It is a function of the rate of movement between a flux line and inductor relative to the distance between the two. However I don't understand how an EMP could burn down a home? Can it induce sufficient voltage or amperage within house wiring to create an overload sufficient to overheat the wiring? I know very little about EMP other than it is essentially a very powerful magnetic wave (flux line) but it seems to me it would induce only a very short, ie: a second or a few, induction of current within house wiring. True it being a magnetic wave it'd have an outbound and inbound wave going over a fixed point as the field expands and then collapses. However is it that time frame long enough to induce sufficient electrical activity within house wiring to start a fire? It seems to me that time frame of expansion & collapse of the field would only last a couple seconds, consequently house wiring should be able to take the momentary overload. Am I missing something here?
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An EMP would not be a direct "accelerant" or "initiator" of structure fires i.e. it would not overload wiring to cause enough heat to burst into flames unless its a planet killer. Fires would most likely be the result power surges as the electrical grid collapsed and certain areas suddenly got hit with so much overload that transformers would explode and electrical panels overload and the plastic breakers weld together and catch on fire. If 1/3 of the substations in an area faulted and fuses popped as designed the homes downstream would see a brown/black out. Some systems unfortunately will fault in a manner where the "fuses" weld shut forcing the suddenly unbalanced load and huge amount of electricity with no place to go but follow the paths of fault closed and dump a lot of amperage in systems that are not equipped to handle it.
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If it's been covered already I missed it, sorry. What's the general concensus on electronic aiming devices? Personally I've been staying with tritium and away from batteries just to err on the side of caution. However I just picked up an aimpoint for a $100. I'm pretty sure it's not an airsoft knockoff, but its going on a .22 so it should be ok.That said, it got me thinking what are the odds of it surviving an emp pulse?
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My guess would be that it would survive just fine - I base this guess on the fact that there are no external wires or long internal wire runs acting as antennae. IIRC, earlier in this thread the subject of LED flashlights and the like came up and were thought to be safe.
I'd welcome a more knowledgable assessment, though.
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Agree, to be safe, might be wise to use whatever the Army uses on their rifles, in that I would suspect, they tested them to make sure they would still work for the troops after an EMP event. Army has used/still use Aimpoints, which is what's on all mine, but its just a guess.
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Post EMP, no new batteries will be made (in the area affected), anything battery powered will eventually run out of juice. How long will tritium last in a scope?
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12 to 15 years is what most are warranted for.
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And they are functional without the tritium, worse case, I've got a box of one inch long Chem lights that a buddy gave me that can be taped over the fiber optic if need be. I wish I knew where he got them, they're at least 10 years old and still work fine. I just sacrificed one to test.
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Met with Dr. Pry last week. There is a 12 volume report on EMP coming out of the taskforce (yes, huge amount of data). DOE is stonewalling it but it will come out. As soon as it is released, I'll post the link as it is a congressional report.
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We know certain things were passed to NK. There has been a bit of watch this hand while the other hand does something else. The real issue is the previous folks allowed this to evolve!
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