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HIDDEN MlLlTARY OPS IN THE SKY
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China and Russia band together on controversial heating experiments to modify the atmosphere
- The countries are testing a technology for possible military application, say Chinese scientists involved in the project
- Militaries have been in a race to control the ionosphere, which allows radio signals to bounce long distances for communication, for decades
PUBLISHED : Monday, 17 December, 2018, 3:31am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 18 December, 2018, 5:46am
A total of five experiments were carried out in
June. One, on June 7, caused physical disturbance over an area as large
as 126,000 sq km (49,000 square miles), or about half the size of
Britain.
The modified zone, looming more than 500km (310
miles) high over Vasilsursk, a small Russian town in eastern Europe,
experienced an electric spike with 10 times more negatively charged
subatomic particles than surrounding regions.
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In another experiment on June 12, the
temperature of thin, ionised gas in high altitude increased more than
100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit) because of the particle
flux.
The particles, or electrons, were pumped into
the sky by Sura, an atmospheric heating facility in Vasilsursk built by
the former Soviet Union’s military during the cold war.
The Sura base fired up an array of high-power
antennas and injected a large amount of microwaves into the high
atmosphere. The peak power of the high frequency radio waves could reach
260 megawatts, enough to light a small city.
Zhangheng-1, a Chinese electromagnetic
surveillance satellite, collected the data from orbit with cutting-edge
sensors. The pumping and fly-by required precise coordination to achieve
effective measurement.
When Zhangheng approached the target zone, for
instance, the sensors would switch to burst mode to analyse samples
every half-second, much faster than usual, to increase data resolution.
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The results were “satisfactory”, the research team reported in a paper published in the latest issue of the Chinese journal Earth and Planetary Physics.
“The detection of plasma disturbances … provides
evidence for likely success of future related experiments,” the
researchers said.
Professor Guo Lixin, dean of the school of
physics and optoelectronic engineering at Xidian University in Xian and a
leading scientist on ionosphere manipulation technology in China, said
that the joint experimentation was extremely unusual.
“Such international cooperation is very rare for
China,” said Guo, who was not involved in the experiment. “The
technology involved is too sensitive.”
The sun and cosmic rays produce a large amount
of free-flying, positively charged atoms known as ions at altitudes from
75km to 1,000km in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. The layer, or
ionosphere, reflects radio waves like a mirror. The ionosphere allows
radio signals to bounce long distances for communication.
The militaries have been in a race to control the ionosphere for decades.
The Sura base in Vasilsursk is believed to be
the world’s first large-scale facility built for the purpose. Up and
running in 1981, it enabled Soviet scientists to manipulate the sky as
an instrument for military operations, such as submarine communication.
High-energy microwaves can pluck the
electromagnetic field in ionosphere like fingers playing a harp. This
can produce very low-frequency radio signals that can penetrate the
ground or water – sometimes to depths of more than 100 metres (328 feet)
in the ocean, which made it a possible communication method for
submarines.
Changing the ionosphere over enemy territory can also disrupt or cut off their communication with satellites.
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The US military learned from the Russian experiment and built a much larger facility to conduct similar tests.
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research
Program, or HAARP, was established in Gakona, Alaska, in the 1990s with
funding from the US military and the Defence Advanced Research Projects
Agency.
The HAARP facility could generate a maximum 1 gigawatt of power, nearly four times that of Sura.
China is now building an even larger and more
advanced facility in Sanya, Hainan, with capability to manipulate the
ionosphere over the entire South China Sea, according to an earlier
report by the South China Morning Post.
There have been concerns that such facilities
could be used to modify weather and even create natural disasters,
including hurricanes, cyclones and earthquakes.
The ultra-low frequency waves generated by these
powerful facilities could even affect the operation of human brains,
some critics have said.
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But Dr Wang Yalu, an associate researcher with
the China Earthquake Administration who took part in the study in June,
dismissed such theories.
“We are just doing pure scientific research. If
there is anything else involved, I am not informed about this,” she said
in an interview.
The earthquake administration was involved
because the Zhangheng-1, launched in February, was the first Chinese
satellite capable of picking up precursory signals linked to
earthquakes. It is operated by the Chinese military and has served both
civilian and defence uses.