Word: emi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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High intensity EMI can also cause sparks in thesame way metal leads to sparks in a microwave. Ifa spark is close to the fuel tank, as FAA reportsshow, the fuel tank can ignite...
...EMI describes an effect that occurs when energywaves collide. Most commonly seen as the fuzzylines that appear on a television when a hairdryer is turned on or the static heard on AM radiostations during a lightening storm, EMI is causedby the interaction of electric and magneticfields...
...danger of EMI is so great that it hasbecome an offensive military weapon. "Jamming," orthe use of EMI to disable enemy radar andcommunications systems, is an integral part ofmodern warfare. Planes, ships and ground-basedtransceivers equipped with jamming electronics canthrow millions, or in some cases, billions ofwatts of energy at enemy targets...
...recent article, Scarry notes that EMIhas caused military aircraft crashes in the past.Between 1982 and 1988, six Black Hawk helicopterscrashed as a result of EMI, killing 22. During a1986 mission near Libya, EMI also caused the crashof an F111 bomber and disabled five others...
...military planes can be downed by EMI, whycan't civilian planes be downed by EMI?" Scarryasks in the article. In trying to answer thatquestion, however, Scarry ran into a wall ofhighly classified military documents...