| | "OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES MATRIX"... |
| | | "Precipitation enhancement,decrease comfort level,morale... |
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| | deny fresh water,induce drought."... |
| | | "Trigger or intensify thunder storm cells and the use of the ionosphere |
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| | for space control and communications dominance." |
| | | "To deny concealment,disrupt communications and space assets." |
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| | "The WSFE-Weather Support Force Element, |
| | | has the necessary sensor and communication abilities to observe,detect, |
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| | and act on weather modification requirements to support U.S. military objectives |
| | | "The number of specific intervention methodologies... |
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| | is limited only by the imagination." |
| | | "But with few exceptions they involve infusing either energy or chemicals... |
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| into the meteorological process in
the right way,at the right place and ti... |
| | | "Prior to attack, UAV'S'umanned Aerial Vehicles"... |
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| | begin cloud generating and cloud seeding operations." |
| | | "Simulaneously,microwave heaters create scintillation, |
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| | to disrupt active sensing." |
| | | "Other cloud-seeding operations cause an intensifying thunder storm, |
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| | severly limiting the enemy's ability to defend". |
| | | "Weather-modification technologies might involve techniques... |
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| that would increase latent heat release in
the atmosphere." |
| | | "By 2025, it may be possible to modify the ionosphere and near space, |
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| | creating a variety of potential applications." |
| | | "Modification of the near-space environment is crucial to battlespace dominance. |
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| | "A number of methods have been explored or proposed to modify the ionosphere, |
| | | including injection of chemical vapors, |
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| | and heating or charging via electromagnetic radiation, |
| | or particle beams (such as ions,
neutral particles, and x-rays." |
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| "It is important to note that many
techniques to modify the upper atmosphere, |
| | | have been successfully demonstrated experimentally." |
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| "A cloud, or several clouds, of
microscopic computer particles, |
| | | all communicating with each other and with a larger control system... |
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| | to intensify over the target could provide tremendous capability." |
| | | "Even if power levels were insufficient to be an effective strike weapon, |
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| | the potential for psychological operations in many situations could be fantastic |
| | | Weather "gives the commander tools to shape the battlespace." |
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| | From small scale "to complete dominance of global communications |
| | | and counter-space control, |
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| | weather-modification offers the war fighter, |
| | | a wide-range of possible options |
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| | to defeat or coerce an adversary." |
| | | "A global,precise,real time,robust,systematic weather modification ability... |
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| | would provide war fighting Commanders in Chief... |
| | | "with a powerful force multiplier to achieve military objectives." |
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| | "Extreme cases of weather modification, |
| | | might involve the creation of complelely new weather patterns"... |
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| | attenuation or control of severe storms,or even alteration of global climate... |
| | | on a far-reaching and/or long-lasting scale." |
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