Antennas of the American HAARP facility for ionospheric research. Image: DoD
The experiments are probably for military purposes; China is building a high-frequency facility like the American HAARP on the South China Sea
The American HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) in Alaska has always aroused suspicion. The once military, now civilian shortwave facility, with 180 transmitters and a power of 5.1 gigawatts, is used to explore how radio waves can be used to reach the ionosphere, d.h. which can study and influence electrons and ions from 60 km above the Earth’s surface. It has been suspected that HAARP, which has been operated by the University of Alaska since 2014, can be used to manipulate the weather or even people’s brains. There are numerous conspiracy theories about this. The ionosphere is of military interest because radio waves are reflected there.
Now SCMP reports that Russia and China had heated up part of the ionosphere with radio waves, presumably to test a technique for a possible military application. 5 experiments have been carried out this year by scientists from both countries. For example, one experiment reportedly showed a grossly flat change 500 km above the Russian city of Vasilsursk over an area of 126.000 square kilometers have been drawn. Negatively charged subatomic particles had been excited ten times more than in the surrounding area. In another experiment at the Russian Sura plant, which came into operation in 1981, the ionized gas was allegedly heated to a coarse level of 100 degrees Celsius by blowing electrons up to 260 MW across the microwave antennas.
Russian plant Sura. Image: sura.nirfi.sci-nnov.ru
This was measured in a Russian-Chinese collaboration by the Zhangheng-1 electromagnetic observation satellite (CSES), which was just launched into orbit in February and can detect signals that indicate an earthquake is developing. Die Ergebnisse seien "satisfactorily" There have been, he says in an article published in the Chinese journal Earth and Planetary Physics. The finding of "Plasma gating" am 12. June with a range of 20 km at night would be evidence of the success of future experiments, because this could be done only by a weak power. With daybreak, however, the man-made pertubation quickly disappeared and was overridden by the effects of sunlight on the ionosphere.
China now wants to build a more powerful facility than HAARP in Sanya, Hainan, to affect the ionosphere over the South China Sea, as SCMP reported in June. Unlike HAARP, it is located in a densely populated area over which many airlines pass. When the system is activated, the electronics in airplanes are likely to be disturbed. It is amed that the facility will serve military purposes, either to intercept signals from American satellites, for example, or to detect submarines from a greater distance in the South China Sea. to interfere with their communication via ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) radio waves. With an ELF radar, which was operated with the equipment and uses the ionosphere, love possibly also ground treasures, structures under the earth’s surface or pipelines to discover.
Newsweek links the Russian-Chinese experiments to Donald Trump’s order to build a space force. In Australia, this raises concerns because it is suspected that the Russians and Chinese could use ionospheric manipulation to jam enemy signals and improve their own, even if this is only a guess for now. Australia itself operates the Jindalee/JORN uberhorizon radar system, which uses the interaction of signals with the ionosphere to observe motion on the seas and in the air up to 4000 km away.