Electromagnetic equipment can shoot down civil aircraft

Israeli researchers warn that civilian aircraft can be shot down by electronic devices according to the installation instructions on the internet.

Yael Shahar, director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism Research in Herzliya, Israel, and his colleagues have put a lot of effort into analyzing the electromagnetic weapons of many countries around the world.

Research results show that electrical devices on aircraft are very sensitive to electromagnetic waves and can be easily disabled by conventional technologies.

Marx transmitter, a simple device used to generate electromagnetic waves from EMP.

According to Shahar, it is worrisome that devices capable of generating electromagnetic pulses (EMP) to attack aircraft are easy to find. For example, in US Government laboratories, the EMP device is widely used to test the resistance of electrical devices to extremely strong electromagnetic pulses emitted by atomic explosions.

According to Robert Lannini, founder of Information Unlimited in Amherst, New Hampshire, the company sells EMP transmitters for testing purposes, they only sell to trusted customers, pass the test. knowledge of the use of electronic devices by graduate students at the company. If there is any suspicious transaction, the company will directly warn the US Government.

However, a simple EMP transmitter can be built easily in many other ways. A machine called a Marx transmitter can release a huge energy from a capacitor to an antenna, which in turn releases an extremely powerful EMP pulse. This machine is too common in civilian activities, it is often used to test the resistance of the grid to lightning.

In addition, modern aircraft increasingly use more carbon fiber to reinforce composite materials under aircraft use, making electrical devices more "sensitive" to EMP due to composite failure. EMP wave resistance as normal metal shell.

Jerome Bruel, an electrical engineer at the European Aviation Safety Bureau, said that aircraft made entirely of composite such as the Airbus 350 need even be protected from all sources of electromagnetic transmission such as television control. .

The two military powers, Russia and the United States, have developed electromagnetic "bullets" capable of emitting radio waves with extreme energy. This radio wave will create an electric field up to hundreds of thousands of volts / m. With such a strong electric field, electrical devices such as microchips, communication devices are completely destroyed.