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There have been several suspected energy weapon attacks in recent years, on various government officials overseas and state side.
Why is it so hard for intelligence agencies to identify the source?. Seems if its microwave, it would be emitting some type of frequency that could be detected?
any thoughts on what other type of energy that could be hard to detect?.
 
Kinetic energy (bullets, missiles, etc), easily located and neutralized if indeed Secret Service and DC police have those gunshot triangulating audio detectors

Thermal energy (heat, radiation falls under this) should be fairly simple to locate using currently known and deployed technologies.

Electrical energy (plasma, static, lightning, arcs), far easiest to detect and act upon, after all, who's gonna not notice a bolt of lightning! :rolleyes: also, voltage multimeters and field detectors will work handily here. Easy as heck to defeat this type of energy though, just be grounded or covered in rubber (no, not that kind of runner :p )
 
As an aside, the AN/ALQ-99 transmitter pods employed on the EA-6b Prowlers and EA-18 Growlers have outputs of between 6.8kw to 10.8 kw, and these are meant to jam radars in either high band or low band, believe they are unidirectional and emits quite a bit of radio energy to jam radars. Not sure where microwave radiation falls in, but I do seem to recall that there were markings on the EA-6Bs noses warning of radiation(not nuclear) hazards since they all emit pretty powerful radiofrequency energy.

Making the transmitters directional and pulsed might not be that difficult in concept but rather difficult in execution; and since pretty much all radio and radar equipment emit such energy depending on how dense the networks and ranges, it might be difficult to pinpoint accurately where the pulsed radiofrequency comes from.. but this technology is incredibly expensive and challenging for a relatively nonlethal type of weapon.. DARPA have been working on such equipment since the Reagan era SDI programs.
 
As an aside, the AN/ALQ-99 transmitter pods employed on the EA-6b Prowlers and EA-18 Growlers have outputs of between 6.8kw to 10.8 kw, and these are meant to jam radars in either high band or low band, believe they are unidirectional and emits quite a bit of radio energy to jam radars. Not sure where microwave radiation falls in, but I do seem to recall that there were markings on the EA-6Bs noses warning of radiation(not nuclear) hazards since they all emit pretty powerful radiofrequency energy.

Making the transmitters directional and pulsed might not be that difficult in concept but rather difficult in execution; and since pretty much all radio and radar equipment emit such energy depending on how dense the networks and ranges, it might be difficult to pinpoint accurately where the pulsed radiofrequency comes from.. but this technology is incredibly expensive and challenging for a relatively nonlethal type of weapon.. DARPA have been working on such equipment since the Reagan era SDI programs.
Good info.. Radar antennas in the nose of aircraft are already directional, so would just need a pickup or moving van with a fiberglass canopy, to hide it and make it mobile and some way to create enough power for the radar equipment, maybe around 10,000 watts, then fry someones noggin as you follow them in your death ray moving van.
 
Good info.. Radar antennas in the nose of aircraft are already directional, so would just need a pickup or moving van with a fiberglass canopy, to hide it and make it mobile and some way to create enough power for the radar equipment, maybe around 10,000 watts, then fry someones noggin as you follow them in your death ray moving van.
10,000 watts is 10 KiloWatts ;) looks like there are two directional high band antennas in the AN/ALQ-99 transmitter pod. This is the newer one with 6,800 watts output. Low band might be in the rear of it? Usually 3 pods on the EA,-18, and like 5 or so on the EA-6
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