how electronics bomb works

1. A SEMINAR PRESENTATION
ON
ELECTRONICS BOMB
Presented By:
Gopal Dhaker
8th Sem, 4th year

2. INTRODUCTION
- E-Bombs are weapons of electrical mass destruction…
- Can damage wide range of electrical & electronics equipments i.e.
computers, radios, radar, wires or PCBs etc.
-they use of non-nuclear confrontation.
- using principle of EMP effect.
- It has combination of both electric and magnetic fields.
- emp device can render the electronics equipments

3. History
 First observed during the early testing of high
altitude airburst nuclear weapons.
 Then FCG is built and tested in US, and then in
USSR
 And more recently in CIS.

4. BASIC PRINCIPLE
 Work on principle of EMP method
 EMP stands for: Electromagnetic Pulses.
 They very strong pulses.
 They has short lived transient voltages of thousands of
volts.
 its effects on the circuitry of other semiconductor
electronics equipments (i.e. MOS).
 Due to over power the device damages.
 All types of receivers and communication equipments
are highly vulnerable.

5. Concept of EMP
 It is an electromagnetic pulse.
 Produces a powerful electromagnetic fields
(i.e. in kilovolts).
 Due to powerful fields it cause wide damage
of electronics appliances.
 The EMP is in effect an electromagnetic shock
wave.

6. Technology based for E-bomb
 It is based on Explosively Pumped Flux
Compression Generator.

7. Introduction to Flux Compression Generator
 It is a type of generator for producing EMP.
 It is the most mature technology applicable to
bomb.
 FCG is a device capable of producing electrical
energies of about tens of Mega joules in ten to
hundreds of microseconds.
 It has peak power kevels of the order of
Terawatts to tens of Terawatts.

8. Working of FCG
 Producing a pulse of electric current of order of ten of kilo
Amperes to Mega Amperes.
 It has cylindrical copper tubes of armature.
 This tube is filled with a fast high energy explosive.
 Armature is surrounded by a helical coil of heavy wire.
 Which forms the FCG stator.
 The start current is supplied by an external current source.
Such as a high voltage capacitor bank.
 So by this a intense magnetic field is produced during this
operation.
 So in this method using a fast explosive into the magnetic
field.

9. Figure explanation

10. E-bomb warhead

11. Targeting E-Bomb
 The task of identifying targets for attack with E-
Bomb is complex.
 Targets which can be readily identified through
conventional photographic, satellite, image radar
and human operation.
 These targets are typically geographically fixed
and thus may de attacked providing that aircraft
can penetrate to weapon release range.
 For accuracy GPS/initially guided weapons can be
used.

12. Lethal footprint of a E-Bomb

13. GPS guided bomb

14. Advantages of E-bomb
 Permanent damages the electrical appliances
such as computers and micro processor devices.
 Easy to diffuse or to destroy the missiles.
 Destroys the communication system.
 It can even stop working of generator or cars.
 Easy to handle and target.

15. Limitation
 It must be noted that thermionic technology
i.e. vacuumed tube equipment is substantially
more resilient to the electromagnetic weapons.
 So no damages to the thermionic technology
devices.

16. References
AAP1000 - RAAF, DI(AF) AAP1000, The Air Power Manual,
Second Edition, RAAF APSC, Canberra, 1994
AAP1003 - RAAF, DI(AF) AAP1003, Ch.8 The Law of Aerial
Targeting, Operations Law for RAAF Commanders, First Edition,
RAAF APSC, Canberra, 1994
AFM1-1 - Basic Aerospace Doctrine of the United States Air
Force, Air Force Manual 1-1, Volume 1, March 1992.
CAIRD85 - Caird R.S. et al, Tests of an Explosive Driven Coaxial
Generator, Digest of Technical Papers, 5th IEEE Pulsed Power
Conference, pp.220, IEEE, New York, 1985.
FLANAGAN81 - Flanagan J., High-Performance MHD Solid Gas
Generator, Naval Research Lab, Patent Application 4269637, May
1981.
FOWLER60 - C. M. Fowler, W. B. Garn, and R. S. Caird,
Production of Very High Magnetic Fields by Implosion, Journal of
Applied Physics, Vol. 31, No. 3, 588-594, March, 1960.
FOWLER89 - C. M. Fowler,R. S. Caird, The Mark IX Generator,
Digest of Technical Papers, Seventh IEEE Pulsed Power
Conference, 475, IEEE, New York, 1989.

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