[R-390] EMP

[rbethman]

Hello Sam,

I knew about the trestle and he efforts devoted there.  I didn't know if 
it was still being "kept" info though.  I couldn't believe it when I 
first saw it.  A HUGE wood deck sort of off the peak of a very large 
hill.  There sat a B-52.

I knew the research finally succeeded.  Another "LAB" had been working 
over on this side of the country.  It was hilarious, as the Military 
quarters were toward the front of the complex, the entire testing area 
was a fair bit behind.  Gave those folks a "place" to do this without 
having to use another or create another facility.  They were testing the 
M1A1 Abrams.  Then they used our operations training facility to set up 
and test EMP "filters" to take the pulse off the power input from the grid.

Samuel Letzring wrote:
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> I also did a lot of EMP experiments in the Air Force back in the 70's at Kirtland AFB- this was when the USAF was trying  to figure out how to harden aircraft and missiles to EMP. We had HUGE EMP generators that you could park a 747 inside- the largest one was one called TRESTLE- a huge all wooden structure ( no metal- since the metal would heat up during the EMP pulse). B-52's were the hardest to harden- but we did it! In the first experiments- there were lightning bolts flying around inside the '52's- but with proper bonding- that was all controlled.
> <SNIP>
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The Faraday cages won't do a single bit of good "IF" the power lines 
enter it!
>> Maybe we should build rebar faraday cages to store all of our R390A's...;)
>>     

Bob - N0DGN