11-10-2003, 03:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-10-2003, 03:02 PM by Occhidiangela.)
I read PvP on line now and again, and no, I came up with that on my own without Kurtz influencing my thinking. Which strip are you referring to?
IRL EMP weapons are almost trivially easy to make, as compared to some other weapons. You heard me, EMP generating weapons are well understood in weaponeering circles, have been so for well over a decade, and they are assessed a very effective weapon for disrupting command and control nodes that are based on microcircuits and PC networks. EMP was a know side effect of both tactical and larger nuclear explosions for a generation -- ELECTRO MAGNETIC PULSE -- and as such has been a concern for some who see the current Third Wave method of war as being far too vulnerable to significant EMP effects.
The "digitization of the battlefield" brings with it considerable risk.
That said, any tech society that can build the "ships" that the Zion folks can build would find an EMP weapon ludicrously simple to construct. (A PhD from Australia, in a non classified series of papers, called them E-Bombs and laid out a couple of good blueprints for air delivered E-Bombs, non nuclear, about 10 years ago. If I can find his website, I will post a link, I have it in paper somewhere.)
The only problem is in directional deployment of the effects, which is also not that hard to do: think "shaped charge" of a conventional munition.
As to the doctrinal concept of Ambush, one that Rommel or Stonewall Jackson or any Apache war leader of any worth would recognize: You set up and execute an ambush well outside the perimeter of the docks, in the access corridors: you plant them to trigger on certain events, like a CAPTOR mine or an acoustic/magnetic influence mine, or on the visual signature and mapping of a senitnal. Again, given the tech level of Zion, trivially easy to do.
In short, you set the ambush Well Away from your high value area to defend, which is the docks. Defense in depth. The ships are the scouts who perform a screening action, but they set mines, or "claymore mine" EMP traps along the access corridors, and at tunneling routes. You have to know the terrain to fight the fight, particularly in the defensive fight.
Even a novice at tactical thinking can see that, so I repeat, the dumbassity that is displayed by the Zion defense establishment is reason enough for the Machines to wipe out that version of the human virus: the gene pool needs severe cleaning up, if intellect is any indicator of Darwinian Merit.
IRL EMP weapons are almost trivially easy to make, as compared to some other weapons. You heard me, EMP generating weapons are well understood in weaponeering circles, have been so for well over a decade, and they are assessed a very effective weapon for disrupting command and control nodes that are based on microcircuits and PC networks. EMP was a know side effect of both tactical and larger nuclear explosions for a generation -- ELECTRO MAGNETIC PULSE -- and as such has been a concern for some who see the current Third Wave method of war as being far too vulnerable to significant EMP effects.
The "digitization of the battlefield" brings with it considerable risk.
That said, any tech society that can build the "ships" that the Zion folks can build would find an EMP weapon ludicrously simple to construct. (A PhD from Australia, in a non classified series of papers, called them E-Bombs and laid out a couple of good blueprints for air delivered E-Bombs, non nuclear, about 10 years ago. If I can find his website, I will post a link, I have it in paper somewhere.)
The only problem is in directional deployment of the effects, which is also not that hard to do: think "shaped charge" of a conventional munition.
As to the doctrinal concept of Ambush, one that Rommel or Stonewall Jackson or any Apache war leader of any worth would recognize: You set up and execute an ambush well outside the perimeter of the docks, in the access corridors: you plant them to trigger on certain events, like a CAPTOR mine or an acoustic/magnetic influence mine, or on the visual signature and mapping of a senitnal. Again, given the tech level of Zion, trivially easy to do.
In short, you set the ambush Well Away from your high value area to defend, which is the docks. Defense in depth. The ships are the scouts who perform a screening action, but they set mines, or "claymore mine" EMP traps along the access corridors, and at tunneling routes. You have to know the terrain to fight the fight, particularly in the defensive fight.
Even a novice at tactical thinking can see that, so I repeat, the dumbassity that is displayed by the Zion defense establishment is reason enough for the Machines to wipe out that version of the human virus: the gene pool needs severe cleaning up, if intellect is any indicator of Darwinian Merit.
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete