Seventy Two Hours

This has got me thinking.

I'd like to share the publication, as it is much like a Tom Clancy novel, and for me is a fast hook due to subject matter. It might be fiction, but is based on what's real, that's what is so good about this.

He’d seen this coming.

He warned them of the dangers. He informed them of the hazards of the new technology. He gave countless presentations on the invaders’ aggressive history. The bureaucrats turned a deaf ear. After all, no one could challenge our national power; it was just too great. They believed the country had technological overmatch, along with a well-trained army and the protection of half a world of ocean. No one in their right mind would attempt an invasion. But to Lee, it was only a matter of time.

Seventy-one hours ago, there was a blink.
Lee was on leave when the power went off. He thought it was a routine power failure, but everything went off. This wasn’t quite right. Lee thought they were hit with an electromagnetic pulse. He’d studied weapons for 15 years; he knew how they worked. Everything that used electricity just stopped: cars, generators, electronic devices, phones, water pumps, all of it.

Thirty seconds later, apart from the internet, the cellphones, and the automobiles, it all came back on. Six minutes later, every military base and every airport in the country was hit with a hypersonic missile. There must have been hundreds of them.

As the news reported on these events, broadcasts showed a missile destroying an airfield in slow motion. Even at a reduced speed, it looked fast. The missile seemed to have a stealth skin and a powerful rocket engine. He believed no one saw them coming. The missiles were clearly using stealth technology, and the blip probably disabled the country’s radar defenses.

A cyberattack likely happened simultaneously, to ensure all domains were contested, but Lee had no way of knowing. From what he could tell, most of the country was offline, and every known runway was turned into a giant pothole. He knew no warplanes would get into the fight. The country was a sitting duck.

Minutes later, tanker-sized aircraft, the likes of which he’d never seen, moved over every known military base in the country and released a clear mist that blanketed them and almost all the surrounding areas. Six minutes later, every soldier dropped dead. It was clear to Lee what had happened: The invaders used some sort of biological or chemical weapon.

The interesting thing was that the civilians weren’t to be affected. Later, when the news reported on the deaths, the media said some sort of DNA-triggered virus caused the victim’s blood to coagulate. The soldiers who died likely felt as though they were suffering a heart attack. This was some War of the Worlds technology that even H.G. Wells couldn’t have predicted.

By this time, the country had activated its emergency response system. The emergency radio and television channel broadcasts were ordering everyone to stay inside. Again, Lee knew what was happening, because he’d also warned his leaders about this. Somehow, the enemy hacked the military databases and stole the DNA sequence for the nation’s soldiers.

Since everyone who wished to become a soldier had their DNA sequenced when they began their term of service, literally 100% of the military was at risk of a genetically engineered virus that only did its dirty work when paired with a matching strand of DNA. It was a brilliant feat of genetic engineering likely based on the same Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) gene editing technique used to modify the COVID-19 virus...

72 Hours

Wonder if this is why the ‘iron dome’ is a necessary project?

a reply to: Kaiju666

Quite possibly yes.

At the minimum, it would be a standard preventative measure, that gives some defense capabilities. Who knows.

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a reply to: ADVISOR

I remember when 1984 was a ficticous novel before it became a spoiler alert.

Thanks for sharing, Advisor!

originally posted by: Kaiju666
Wonder if this is why the ‘iron dome’ is a necessary project?

Iron Dome isn't necessary for the US. In fact, it wouldn't even be useful. The Iron Dome system in Israel is only effective against missiles launched from about 45 miles away. That's what it's designed for, since most of Israel's enemies are right next door and Israel is a very small country. Any missiles coming into the US would be coming from much farther away and moving much, much faster. Iron Dome wouldn't do squat.

a reply to: ADVISOR

‘Lee peered through a window with a view of the nation’s capital.’

For crying out loud, the guy's barely literate. You expect educated people to read this?

a reply to: ADVISOR

Area defense against hypersonic weapons might be best achieved using long-duration platforms loitering in the stratosphere (in this case, above 80,000 - 100,000FT), equipped with directed energy weapons.

a reply to: Mantiss2021

We have had them since the 1980s just need a modern varient of course.

It's here just classified.

A swarm packet is all that is needed, we launch a drone cloud, capable of tracking and incercepting as well as ATG energy platforms.

Consider these 50 watt lasers for example.

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