NationStates Jolt Archive

I suspect that the cause of this tragic plane crash might end up being blamed on some sort of electro-magnetic burst that overwhelmed the planes electronics.

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - The head of ground forces of Iran's Revolutionary Guard has been killed in a plane crash in northwest Iran, Iranian news agencies reported on Monday.

"Ahmad Kazemi was killed with 12 of his deputies and accompanying officers," Ahmad Panahi, head of Iran's Emergency Center was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency.

Fars news agency put the total number of people on board the plane at 15, of whom 13 were definitely killed.

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Strap on the tinfoil hats - it's going to be a bumpy ride!

Strap on the tinfoil hats - it's going to be a bumpy ride!

Are you implying that the CIA had anything to do with this terrible accident? Because if you are, men in black suits are going to come to your home within the hour.

Seriously though, is it even possibleto create and aim the sort of electomagnetic surge needed to take down a plane?

I suspect that high-powered microwave pulse weapons are (at the least) in the final stages of development by government agencies - which means, deployable if the right opportunity presents itself.

It isn't much of a stretch to believe that the NSA or CIA picked up intel about this flight, and decided that it was too good an opportunity - they positioned an asset (microwave pulse weapon), and "tested" it on the Iranians.

Personally I'd be more willing to believe either:

A) The US finds out about the flight and sabotages it some other way and disguises it as electronics failure, or its blown up by the US and the Iranians say electronics failure top cover their asses

B) It was an Iranian house-cleaning matter. Maybe this chap wanted to start a coup, or launch some attack on the US or Iraq or whatever. Or perhaps he was a moderate and had to be eliminated in an 'accident'

C) It was an accident. But thats just absurd.

It isn't much of a stretch to believe that the NSA or CIA picked up intel about this flight, and decided that it was too good an opportunity - they positioned an asset (microwave pulse weapon), and "tested" it on the Iranians.

Of course, the utter lack of evidence for this, or even for the existence of said weapons harms this theory's credibility a bit.

It would be a cool plot for a story though.

Of course, the utter lack of evidence for this, or even for the existence of said weapons harms this theory's credibility a bit.

It would be a cool plot for a story though.

Actually they are real.

http://www.amazing1.com/emp.htm

Actually they are real.

I meant one with an effective range of above thirty thousand feet that could be aimed at a target moving several hundred miles per hour.