Someday the U.S. military could drive a trailer to a spot just beyond insurgent fighting and, within minutes, reconfigure part of the atmosphere, blocking an enemy's ability to receive satellite signals, even as U.S. troops are able to see into the area with radar.

"This scenario may not be far away," says Defense Tech pal Sharon Weinberger in this month's edition of the always-excellent Defense Technology International.

An engineer with Research Support Instruments in Princeton, N.J. recently completed the first phase of work for a U.S. Air Force sponsored project called Microwave Ionosphere Reconfiguration Ground based Emitter, or Mirage. (scroll down)

The work involves using plasma — an ionized gas — to reconfigure the ionosphere. Mirage would employ a microwave transmitter on the ground and a small rocket that shoots chaff into the air to produce about a liter of plasma at 60-100 km. (36- 60 mi.) in altitude, changing the number of electrons in a select area of the ionosphere to create a virtual barrier. Ionosphere reconfiguration offers two major applications of interest to the military: bouncing radars off the ionosphere, also known as over-the-horizon radar, and the ability to jam signals from the Global Positioning Satellite system, according to John Kline, the lead investigator for Mirage.

This work is only the latest effort in Kline's more extensive investigations of atmospheric plasmas… Before Mirage, Kline had another contract for a project called Plasma Point Defense, which explored the possibility of using a plasma weapon on board a U.S. Navy surface vessel to protect against threats ranging from surface-to-surface missiles to mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.

In the past, NASA's fringe science arm has looked into tweaking Mother Nature, to throw hurricanes off their course. But those were just
Source
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wow... that'd be some technology to have.

N doubt about it. The US has actually been manipulating weather since the late sixties. Remember the scene in Forrest Gump in Vietnam, and he said one day it started raining and didn't stop. That was more then monsoons. The US was making it rain on the enemy to bog down their truck in the mud. According to the Science channel on the show I think called owning the weather.

"Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need to be appraised. Techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm."

--Zbigniew Brzezinski (Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor)in book Between Two Ages


Here is a quote from April 1997, then-Defense Secretary William Cohen speaking at a terrorism conference at the University of Georgia. The most important parts are in italic and bold. These are the weapons of the future.

Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn. Quoted from DOD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, University of Georgia, Athens, Apr. 28, 1997.

here is the link to the defence department which proves that it's true:

http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/199...7_t0428coh.html

Q: "Let me ask you specifically about last week's scare here in Washington, and what we might have learned from how prepared we are to deal with that (inaudible), at B'nai Brith."

A: "Well, it points out the nature of the threat. It turned out to be a false threat under the circumstances. But as we've learned in the intelligence community, we had something called -- and we have James Woolsey here to perhaps even address this question about phantom moles. The mere fear that there is a mole within an agency can set off a chain reaction and a hunt for that particular mole which can paralyze the agency for weeks and months and years even, in a search. The same thing is true about just the false scare of a threat of using some kind of a chemical weapon or a biological one. There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.

So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important."



Weather as a Force Multiplier:
Owning the Weather in 2025

http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usa...c15/v3c15-1.htm

Here's some video:

http://this-must-stop.com/video_page.htm

Always enlightening to read your posts scoob, We'd love you here in california, you would fit in nicely at my work. Fans of scoobs Namaste Sheri

It's good to hear theirs people out there who appreciate my posts. I always try to add something new.

I love California, and wish I did live there because the weather is great. I went on a family vacation, visited San Francisco, the gold, and wine country, Monterrey Bay, among others. It's was great. I also noticed how the style of cloths takes a while to get to the Midwest where I live. I first saw women wearing Capri pants in California for example.