Spoetnik
02-01-05, 16:46
Naar aanleiding van een recent gevoerde discussie over de mogelijkheid dat het Amerikaanse leger onderzoekt of het mogelijk is het weer (en andere natuurkrachten) in te zetten als een oorlogsmiddel ben ik natuurlijk niet de beroerdste om het onderwerp even te onderzoeken.
Ik kwam terecht op de volgende site van het Amerikaanse leger: http://www.au.af.mil . Deze site is de site van een Amerikaanse luchtmachtbasis waar dergelijke systemen worden onderzocht.
De inleiding uit het volgende raport trok mijn aandacht:
http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/volume3/chap15/v3c15-1.htm
Executive Summary
In 2025, US aerospace forces can "own the weather" by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war-fighting applications. Such a capability offers the war fighter tools to shape the battlespace in ways never before possible. It provides opportunities to impact operations across the full spectrum of conflict and is pertinent to all possible futures. The purpose of this paper is to outline a strategy for the use of a future weather-modification system to achieve military objectives rather than to provide a detailed technical road map.
A high-risk, high-reward endeavor, weather-modification offers a dilemma not unlike the splitting of the atom. While some segments of society will always be reluctant to examine controversial issues such as weather-modification, the tremendous military capabilities that could result from this field are ignored at our own peril. From enhancing friendly operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications and counterspace control, weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary. Some of the potential capabilities a weather-modification system could provide to a war-fighting commander in chief (CINC) are listed in table 1.
Technology advancements in five major areas are necessary for an integrated weather-modification capability: (1) advanced nonlinear modeling techniques, (2) computational capability, (3) information gathering and transmission, (4) a global sensor array, and (5) weather intervention techniques. Some intervention tools exist today and others may be developed and refined in the future.
Current technologies that will mature over the next 30 years will offer anyone who has the necessary resources the ability to modify weather patterns and their corresponding effects, at least on the local scale. Current demographic, economic, and environmental trends will create global stresses that provide the impetus necessary for many countries or groups to turn this weather-modification ability into a capability.
In the United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its interests, at various levels. These levels could include unilateral actions, participation in a security framework such as NATO, membership in an international organization such as the UN, or participation in a coalition. Assuming that in 2025 our national security strategy includes weather-modification, its use in our national military strategy will naturally follow. Besides the significant benefits an operational capability would provide, another motivation to pursue weather-modification is to deter and counter potential adversaries.
In this paper we show that appropriate application of weather-modification can provide battlespace dominance to a degree never before imagined. In the future, such operations will enhance air and space superiority and provide new options for battlespace shaping and battlespace awareness.1 "The technology is there, waiting for us to pull it all together;"2 in 2025 we can "Own the Weather."
http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/volume3/chap15/v3c15-1.htm
Laten we niet naief zijn, elke vorm van verwoesting zal door legers rond de wereld worden gezien als een mogelijk wapen. Niet alleen de VS maar ook de legers van China en Rusland zullen geinteresseerd zijn in dergelijke wapens en doen er onderzoek naar.
Dat laat natuurlijk de vraag, was de zeebeving een door de mens ontketend drama? Niet dus.. hoewel de trigger misschien (maar niet persee) menselijk was, was de zeebeving het resultaat van een eeuwenlange opbouw van spanning in de aardkorst met een kracht die menselijke voorstellingsvermogen te boven gaat. Daarom zijn experiementen met het weer dan ook zo gevaarlijk. Het zijn krachten waarmee niet mag worden gespot, en het leger is wel het laatste instituut dat dergelijke onderzoeken zou mogen uitvoeren. Dergelijke natuurkrachten moeten echter wel worden onderzocht want ze zouden wel eens tot een toekomstige energiebron kunnen verworden.
Ik kwam terecht op de volgende site van het Amerikaanse leger: http://www.au.af.mil . Deze site is de site van een Amerikaanse luchtmachtbasis waar dergelijke systemen worden onderzocht.
De inleiding uit het volgende raport trok mijn aandacht:
http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/volume3/chap15/v3c15-1.htm
Executive Summary
In 2025, US aerospace forces can "own the weather" by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war-fighting applications. Such a capability offers the war fighter tools to shape the battlespace in ways never before possible. It provides opportunities to impact operations across the full spectrum of conflict and is pertinent to all possible futures. The purpose of this paper is to outline a strategy for the use of a future weather-modification system to achieve military objectives rather than to provide a detailed technical road map.
A high-risk, high-reward endeavor, weather-modification offers a dilemma not unlike the splitting of the atom. While some segments of society will always be reluctant to examine controversial issues such as weather-modification, the tremendous military capabilities that could result from this field are ignored at our own peril. From enhancing friendly operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications and counterspace control, weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary. Some of the potential capabilities a weather-modification system could provide to a war-fighting commander in chief (CINC) are listed in table 1.
Technology advancements in five major areas are necessary for an integrated weather-modification capability: (1) advanced nonlinear modeling techniques, (2) computational capability, (3) information gathering and transmission, (4) a global sensor array, and (5) weather intervention techniques. Some intervention tools exist today and others may be developed and refined in the future.
Current technologies that will mature over the next 30 years will offer anyone who has the necessary resources the ability to modify weather patterns and their corresponding effects, at least on the local scale. Current demographic, economic, and environmental trends will create global stresses that provide the impetus necessary for many countries or groups to turn this weather-modification ability into a capability.
In the United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its interests, at various levels. These levels could include unilateral actions, participation in a security framework such as NATO, membership in an international organization such as the UN, or participation in a coalition. Assuming that in 2025 our national security strategy includes weather-modification, its use in our national military strategy will naturally follow. Besides the significant benefits an operational capability would provide, another motivation to pursue weather-modification is to deter and counter potential adversaries.
In this paper we show that appropriate application of weather-modification can provide battlespace dominance to a degree never before imagined. In the future, such operations will enhance air and space superiority and provide new options for battlespace shaping and battlespace awareness.1 "The technology is there, waiting for us to pull it all together;"2 in 2025 we can "Own the Weather."
http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/volume3/chap15/v3c15-1.htm
Laten we niet naief zijn, elke vorm van verwoesting zal door legers rond de wereld worden gezien als een mogelijk wapen. Niet alleen de VS maar ook de legers van China en Rusland zullen geinteresseerd zijn in dergelijke wapens en doen er onderzoek naar.
Dat laat natuurlijk de vraag, was de zeebeving een door de mens ontketend drama? Niet dus.. hoewel de trigger misschien (maar niet persee) menselijk was, was de zeebeving het resultaat van een eeuwenlange opbouw van spanning in de aardkorst met een kracht die menselijke voorstellingsvermogen te boven gaat. Daarom zijn experiementen met het weer dan ook zo gevaarlijk. Het zijn krachten waarmee niet mag worden gespot, en het leger is wel het laatste instituut dat dergelijke onderzoeken zou mogen uitvoeren. Dergelijke natuurkrachten moeten echter wel worden onderzocht want ze zouden wel eens tot een toekomstige energiebron kunnen verworden.