Has anyone heard about the US using new weapons (particule beam, emp, etc) in IRAQ?

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I need a break from the saddness with some erection enducing technobabble about America's military might.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

how in the hell does talking about weapons designed to kill people provide you with a "break from the sadness"?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I hear they were using a tachyon beam to weaken the Iraq's forward deflectors.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Because we all know that new weapons will just leave the iraqis lying incapacitated in a restraining foam bukkake attack

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

This morning a British Commander was saying his troops were using a new weapon dubbed "Storm Shadow", GI JOE characters used in the war. How cool.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

with the Kung Fu grip?

― hstencil, Monday, 24 March 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Jon, are you a C&C Generals player? If so you should know that it's China who has the EMP weapon, not the US.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha, no I am not! I miss palying computer games :(

http://www.defensetech.org/

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Storm Shadow info at that link

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom Waits' character-from-Mystery Men and his non-lethal weapons to thread!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard that the US were trying out their microwave beam guns that trash electronic equipment and leave personnel unharmed. Someone pointed out that this wasn't of great use in this war but by unleashing it, they may have opened Pandora's Box (ie. this kind of thing could seriously fuck with the US Army machine if it go into THE WRONG HANDS).

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 01:23 (twenty-three years ago)

a lot of those weapons, like that EMP thing, would not be that destructive to a low tech crap army of plucky fanatics like the Iraqis. but they would really screw up the army of the Great Satan (and his friend, the Little Satan), dependent as it is on high tech toys.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

That's what I just said!

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I've just heard on radio that BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHINS are being used to help clear mines from the Umm Qsar port....
OK, not exactly 'new' technology (unless they are genetically engineered - 'bottle-opener nosed' dolphins or something) but I always thought this use of trained dolphins by the military was a kind of urban myth.

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Are they just throwing the dolphins into the minefield?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

No training required on the part of the dolphins there - WHAT A SAVINGS

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

why not dogs then? they can dogpaddle.

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Or sharks with friggen lasers on their foreheads.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember reading that the US wanted to use dolphins to deliver nukes to russian ports during the cold war.

A microwave weapon could be helpful to the US for attacking comand and control bunkers or taking out SAM sites without killing civilians in Baghdad.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

No-one ever followed up my great idea of clearing minefields with BSE infected cows.

Would a microwave weapon go "ping" when it had killed everyone.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

People seem not to realize that the Iraqi army is not rag-tag, that Baghdad is heavily fortified with relatively sophisticated anti-aircraft weaponry. Altho I don't think the EMP is too far past the development stage.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I was shot w/ a microwave gun once on low power which is why I'm dead inside

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I've seen video tests of EMP at Defcon ... in the NV desert. I'm trying to find a link on it but I think the US at least has a functional EMP cruise missile, not deployed though.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Morocco offers US monkeys to detonate mine

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030324-064259-1443r

much more versatile than dolphins!

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

much more versatile than dolphins!

Not to mention much tastier!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

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