Agree on the tolerance.
The ordinary Soviet name for this type of weapons science is energetics. In the west that term is believed to be associated with conventional directed energy weapons (DEWs) such as particle beam weapons, lasers, radio-frequency (RF) directed energy devices, etc. The Soviets do not limit the term in this way.
Western scientists are familiar only with directed energy weapons where fragments, masses, photons, or particles travel through space and contact the target to deliver their effects. Hence in their thinking they limit the Soviet term “energetics” to the type of weapons they themselves understand exotic but normal weapons using energy or mass traveling through space to impact a target.
However, it is possible to focus the potential for the effects of a weapon through spacetime itself, in a manner so that mass and energy do not “travel through space” from the transmitter to the target at all. Instead, ripples and patterns in the fabric of spacetime itself are manipulated to meet and interfere in and at the local spacetime of some distant target. There interference of these ripple patterns creates the desired energetic effect (hence the term energetics) directly in and through the target itself, emerging from the very spacetime (vacuum) in which the target is imbedded at its distant location. As used by the Soviets, energetics refers to these eerie new superweapons, as well as to the more mundane DEWs known to the west.
Vibration is defined as a relatively small amplitude oscillation around a rest position. It can be transverse (at right angles to the rest line), longitudinal (orientated along the rest line) or torsional (twisting around the rest line). Transverse vibration is the most commonly encountered, torsional is frequently present but its effects are subversive, longitudinal vibration is comparatively rare but can cause truly hellish problems.
All hull components have “natural frequencies”; these are the frequencies at which the component will vibrate when struck. Another vital term is resonance. This is a state that occurs when the natural frequency of hull components matches that of an imposed vibration. The components act as amplifiers, the effect only being limited by system damping.
http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-005.htm
- rose from kentucky wrote:
- Possibly aided by a Russian torpedo. I think the world's tolerance for American brutality is waxing thin.
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