Nikola Tesla also
planned a very special use for his endothermic scalar interferometer. He
planned to produce what he called his "big eye to see at a distance."
This is accomplished as shown on the diagram. First, the system is only
weakly endothermic, so that only a small amount of energy is extracted
from the distant target. Also, the beams are "scanned" by an open
receiver, timewise, from side to side and top to bottom. By scanning yet
another single beam through the intersection zone and phasing its
pulses, an even better representation can be obtained. Thus the receiver
produces a representation of the energy extracted from various locations
within the distant endothermic zone. By displaying the received signals
on an appropriately scanned screen, a representation of the distant
scene in the intersection zone can be created. Indeed this is a special
kind of "microwave interferometry," and - with modern techniques
- the imagery obtained might be surprisingly good. With development, it
might even become as good as the image presently obtained by
side-looking acquisition radars.
Interestingly enough, since scalar EM beams will easily
penetrate the earth or the ocean, one can also look beneath the
earth or beneath the ocean with this type of scanning scalar
interferometer.
The importance of this capability to strategic and tactical
reconnaissance is obvious. Camouflage, cover, and concealment have no
effect on such a system. One can easily look inside buildings and into
underground facilities. With a small system such as this, the U.S.
Marines at Khe Sahn would have had little difficulty locating the
tunnels continually dug under the perimeter by the Viet Cong. And
targets under jungle canopies are directly visible.
BACKGROUND FOR THE BRIEFER It requires little imagination to see that this system is easily
adapted to produce an "underwater radar." With such devices, the
problem posed by the underwater nuclear submarine is solved. For
example, an entire area can be continually searched, much like
acquisition radar systems do now. A submarine can be detected and
tracked, and none of its ordinary detectors will detect anything out of
the ordinary. By using a separate pair of beams in the exothermic mode,
powerful scalar pulses can be fired at the distant sub,
intersecting at the submarine in a violent EMP throughout
the sub and its armament. Thus the sub and all its missiles are
destroyed instantly.
Or, continuous exothermic transmission can be used by the targeting
weapon at lesser power, gradually interfering with the sub’s electrical
systems and causing it to lose control. The sub then sinks to crush
depth and implodes.
Precisely that scenario seems to be what happened on April 10, 1963 to
the U.S.S. Thresher nuclear submarine. It left a
signature: the sub’s surface companion, the nearby U.S.S. Skylark,
was in the "splatter zone" of the underwater scalar interference. That
is, spurious EM noise was being generated in all the
Skylark’s electrical systems, some of which were actually
disabled. So intense was the "electronic jamming" that it
required over an hour and a half for the Skylark to
transmit an emergency message back to its headquarters that the
Thresher was in serious trouble and contact with it had been
lost. Some of the Skylark’s communication systems actually
failed, but later resumed operation inexplicably, once the jamming was
gone. That type of "jamming" of multiple bands and multiple
electronic equipments, of course, together with the anomalous failure of
electronic equipment and its later mysterious recovery, were direct signatures of the use of the exothermic scalar interferometer
against the undersea target area in the vicinity of the Skylark.
The very next day, Apr. 11, 1963, the same Soviet scalar EM howitzer
system was tested in the "destroy submarine" pulse mode. A huge
underwater EM blast occurred off the coast of Puerto Rico,
about 100 miles north of the island. The underwater explosion caused a
huge boiling of the surface of the ocean, followed by the rising up of a
giant mushroom of water about a third of a mile high. The mushroom of
water then fell back into the ocean, completing the signature.
Fortunately the entire incident was seen by the startled crew of a
passing U.S. jetliner which was just passing its checkpoint in that
area. (See Robert J. Durant, "An Underwater Explosion -- or
What?", Pursuit, 5(2), April 1972, p. 30-31.)
These two incidents were full-up operational tests of Khrushchev’s
newly-deployed superweapons. He probably staged this dramatic one-two
punch in a desperate effort to recover face with the Communist Party
after his disastrous facedown by Kennedy in the Cuban Missile
Crisis a few short months previously. Apparently the attempt was
successful, since he remained in power another year before being
deposed.
