Weather megaweapons, are they possible?

>>34323885
Something something too scary something something real supervillain something something "world domination is illegal!!!!!!11". Also no fun allowed.

Bump for interest, though.

>>34323885
If it were to be done, it would have to be done in secret. Once the world finds out you're starving a nation, or flooding it, no one's going to be happy about that. I do think that if you could manipulate the weather to create a storm to create concealment for a stealth/recon operation, that would be cool

>>34323926
I mean a hurricane is more powerful than a nuclear bomb. It could be a very devastating weapon to have in your arsenal.
And you don't have radiation, so it's more environmentally friendly

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Cloud seeding is small time.

>>34323885
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye

go home COBRA

>>34323885
>create hurricanes
I really doubt we could scale it up that high anytime soon.
>starve countries
doable. It's the way I would go, but you don't necessarily want to do this. Leads to refugees and all the problems that come with refugees.

The best kind of war to wage is and always has been total war. You don't have to worry about anything because all you did was kill people and loot shit.

>>34323885
It depends on where you are, but you could create a huge rainstorn to fuck their crops a bit, but the real killer will be the drough afterwards since their clouds have being depleted. Depending on the source on those clouds it could take moths for them to come back, enough for starvation to kick in

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>>34323885

Cloud seeding has been used for combat effectiveness, It is also used around air fields to reduce heavy precipitation and mitigate the effects of hail.

THere have been proposals to use it to stop heavy mechanized units (by flooding out their transit routes)

THe tornado and and hurricane are some tin foil hat theories (literally look up HAARP conspiracy)

It can be used to stop forest fires (by making it rain) and there have been proposals to remove moisture from hurricanes by causing the water to go away from the storm formation

Dry Ice can also be used. And I have heard that table salt in very fine concentrations could be used

But overall, there are several military technologies for changing the weather

https://www2.ucar.edu/news/weather-modification-and-cloud-seeding-fact-sheet

http://iceflares.com/

There was also a proposal to use artillery to seed clouds at one point (special pyrotechnic shells fired into the atmosphere to condense water molecules)

>>34324221
>a hurricane is more powerful than a nuclear bomb
Nigger what? A nuclear weapon can have effects that lasts for literal decades and not to mention the blast zone is immediately decimated along with radioactive debris spreading through air currents, so it's pretty fucking devastating, not to say a hurricane isn't but it's nowhere near as devastating as a nuke could be.

>>34323885
>Deprive a region of rainfall, condemn them to starvation

you would have to do this for months at a time though. maybe even years to really be anything more than an annoyance. The scale of """weather weapons"""" doesnt really seem to pan out to me

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>>34325922

Not really, just wait until right after their little seeds start to sprout in the fields,and then fuck them all with rain for days


>the crops will be ruined
>as effective as agent red or whatever they used back in 'nam to de-field the gooks food supply

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>>34325849

I think he means more large scale minor damage, if 5000 roofs get torn off, society will descend into chaos. If 5000 houses turn into popcorn, then people will just avoid the area for the next gorrillion years.

it is equally as devastating, but in a completely different way

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>Cloud seeding

Not as good as daughter seeding.

>>34323885
Modifying Hurricanes was experimented with in the 80s. When the results showed to be too dangerous they terminated the program immediately.

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hrd_sub/sfury.html

>>34325849
Not him, but are you dumb or did you just not read his post?

Dropping hurricanes is easier, more clandestine, and spreads the devastation over a larger area. Also, nukes need to actually reach the target to do anything which means they're either in bomb or missile format. Hurricanes are the ultimate standoff weapon since you could "grow" one and then laugh as it spends the next week and a half utterly fucking the target's entire coastline.

Try and intercept a motherfucking hurricane that's appeared out of nowhere.

>>34325922
As a weapon of attrition in combination with sanctions or even combat operations, it would be devastating

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>>34326616
This link seems to say that the project was done in the 1960s and that in the 1980s they challenged the positive results. Did you not read your own sources my man?