PC/WI: HAARP used as a pan-North American ABM system?

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WARNING: THIS THREAD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CERTAIN CONSPIRACY IDEAS REGARDING THE HAARP PROJECT.

In Alaska there is a scientific experiment called HAARP, High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program with basically sends high energy radio waves etc into the high atmosphere.

A few years ago, a program called Horizon UK's BBC 2 explained how it could be used as an ABM system, atomising MIRV's in the Ionosphere and thus negating their impact in a nuclear strike.

What if several or in fact dozens of these facilities where built across North America to protect urban areas and military facilities such as barracks, airbases etc ?

Would this work? and if so how effective would the system be?

Not only that, would small truck based versions be able to be built and work to protect smaller or mobile targets?

Regards filers.
 
A few years ago, a program called Horizon UK's BBC 2 explained how it could be used as an ABM system, atomising MIRV's in the Ionosphere and thus negating their impact in a nuclear strike.

Do you have a link to this? I googled but didn't find anything but conspiracy theorists. At first glance that looks extremely implausible, but this is not an area I know much about.
 
WARNING: THIS THREAD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CERTAIN CONSPIRACY IDEAS REGARDING THE HAARP PROJECT.

In Alaska there is a scientific experiment called HAARP, High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program with basically sends high energy radio waves etc into the high atmosphere.

A few years ago, a program called Horizon UK's BBC 2 explained how it could be used as an ABM system, atomising MIRV's in the Ionosphere and thus negating their impact in a nuclear strike.

What if several or in fact dozens of these facilities where built across North America to protect urban areas and military facilities such as barracks, airbases etc ?

Would this work? and if so how effective would the system be?

Not only that, would small truck based versions be able to be built and work to protect smaller or mobile targets?

Regards filers.

Too much reading of 'Raise the Titanic'...........
 
More likely it would have set up a wave of EM interference and any incoming misses would have had their electronics (detonators) fried. Turning thermal nuclear warheads into dirty bombs, dirty bombs are bad but not as bad as a thermal nuclear detonation.
 
BBC 1996 "Masters of the Ionosphere"
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FWIW, as energetically unfeasible to shoot down MIRVs with HAARP as the original 1930s "Death Ray" to shoot down aircraft.

Happens the latter give rise to RADAR...

IMHO, wouldn't take much to 'harden' MIRV electronics against HAARP-grade EMP. Remember, such are built to survive accidental fratricide...
 
Dang, I thought about this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP

Battleship guns as ABM weapons.

That's basically Ace Combat 04: http://acecombat.wikia.com/wiki/Stonehenge_(Strangereal)

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