Eureka's EMP cannon destined for the Marines? (video)
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted January 20th 2010 1:34PM
posted January 20th 2010 1:34PM
Marines serving overseas have a low-tech, time-tested way of stopping cars that ignore checkpoints -- namely, a .50-caliber slug to the engine block. Still, that hasn't prevented companies like Boeing and Eureka Aerospace from pouring tons of money into EMP research. The cannon (whether mounted on aircraft or a squad car) is nowhere near ready for prime time -- but when has that stopped the Pentagon from sinking tons of money into something? And the USAF isn't the only organization getting involved: according to Flightglobal, the Marine Corps is getting its own demo of the 55lb device (which can disable cars up to 200 meters away) next month at Dahlgren naval warfare center. Vintage autos (really anything manufactured before the mid-1970s) won't be harmed by the weapon, meaning that there still may be a place for lead slugs in modern peacekeeping missions after all. Video after the break.
k but i have to wait 15 kills to get mine
Wait, cant we just use an EMP coordinator against this EMP cannon?
Wouldn't that be EMP vs EMP?? lmao
If they can actually get this to fieldable standards this could be great! Would help check points so much and probably save lives. Instead of being forced to shoot at a car to stop it and risking A. it not stoping and B. killing innocent civilians you can just shut it down and proceed from there. Hopefully gives the soldiers enough time to get to cover and also get a better assessment of the situation to determine if it was a misunderstanding with the driver or a VBIED suicide bomber.
How bout a cannon that will knock out a 24" subwoofer driving by your house at 3am? I'll buy that for a dollar...
I don't get it. Some buddies and I did something like this in 2001 and successfully disabled a car and some of the driver's electronics from about 100 feet away. The project took up an entire car trunk, though, and there were $500 worth of hand-rolled capacitors. Our one successful test run destroyed the machine, too... But all in all it cost us less than $1000 and only about three afternoons worth of work.
Why is it so much more expensive to research and develop it?
Maybe this could help them stop filling American civilian truck drivers full of holes in Iraq. Oops I forgot..if no one talks about it it never happened.
Damn, something like this will kill those midnight "high speed chase" shows I like to waste my time watching :(