HELICOPTER CRASHES, TELEPORTATION SPECULATIONS, DIRECTED ENERGY DEALS, ...

Yesterday, you'll recall, I blogged about the sad death of Siemens executive Agustin Escobar and his wife and children aboard that site-seeing helicopter that crashed into the Hudson river in New York City, and about its possible connection to the recent claims about a teleportation technology being made by some in conjunction with remarks by US Space Force General Kwast. I pointed out that there may be a very odd connection between the two stories via Siemens, since magnetic resonance imaging - a technology field that Siemens virtually monopolizes - would be a necessary step in the technology tree toward a functional teleportation technology.

However, I also pointed out that Siemens had "other energy interests" beginning in the early 1950s, as that same firm took out patents for various means of the collimation of xrays and gamma rays, a nice euphemistic way of saying that Siemens was searching for ways to cohere xrays and gamma rays, i.e., to use them in a laser. I made the humorous point that such devices would far exceed any use as "dental x-rays".

As these two stories percolated around the internet receiving commentary in various places, I received an email from J.R. about a bill before the 116th Congress in 2019-2020:

H.R.1795 - United States-Israel Directed Energy Cooperation Act

The summary of the bill almost says it all:

This bill authorizes the Department of Defense (DOD), upon request from Israel and with the concurrence of the Department of State, to jointly carry out research and testing of directed energy capabilities with Israel. (Directed energy systems are capable of converting chemical or electrical energy into radiated energy and focusing it on a target.) DOD may provide maintenance and sustainment support for such activities if Israel matches U.S. funds provided for such support or otherwise provides an amount that meets Israel's best efforts.

The bill imposes various reporting requirements related to such joint research.

Uh huh....

Notice that I stated that the summary of the bill "almost" says it all. What it does say is bad enough, especially given what we see going on now in the region, nearly half a decade later: while the USA is "concerned" over the prospects of Iranian de-stabilization of the region with its potential acquisition of nuclear weapons, the USA is busily aiding Israel to destabilize the region with directed energy weapons; q.v. those 1950s Siemens patents on x-ray and gamma ray "colllimation". Lest there be any misunderstanding of what the bill was about, here is the statement of purpose:

A BILL

To authorize the Secretary of Defense, upon request of the Ministry of Defense of Israel and with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, to carry out research, development, test, and evaluation activities, on a joint basis with Israel, to establish directed energy capabilities that address threats to the United States, deployed forces of the United States, or Israel, and for other purposes.

And the devil, as they say, is in the (collimated) details:

SEC. 2. Findings.

Congress finds the following:

(1) Directed energy platforms are electromagnetic systems capable of converting chemical or electrical energy to radiated energy and focusing it on a target, resulting in physical damage that degrades or neutralizes an adversarial capability. These systems include high-energy lasers that emit photons and high-power microwaves that release radiofrequency waves.

(2) Directed energy platforms hold enormous potential for non-lethal, defensive capabilities, including protection against advanced missiles and swarms of unmanned aerial systems.

(3) At a fraction of the per-use cost of kinetic defense platforms, directed energy capabilities could greatly enhance the deterrence posture of the United States and protect against emerging threats such as hypersonic and maneuverable missiles.

(4) The United States and Israel successfully partnered on directed energy capabilities during the 1990s and early 2000s based on earlier-generation chemical laser technology, including the Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL).

(5) In response to technological advances and emerging threats, the United States has increased investments in next-generation directed energy capabilities and is exploring the potential for boost-phase ballistic missile defense with the Low-Power Laser Demonstrator program. Existing programs within each service branch are developing technologies to protect members of the Armed Forces from rocket, artillery, mortar, and unmanned aerial systems.

(6) Since 2014, Israel has been developing Iron Beam, a laser platform to intercept mortars. In response to a growing missile threat, Israel’s Ministry of Defense has increased investments in directed energy capabilities in recent years.

(7) In 2017, the Department of Defense issued a report to Congress on the merits of renewed United States-Israel cooperation on directed energy, concluding that, “The United States should pursue joint collaboration with Israel on directed energy capabilities.”.

(8) In 2018, while offering remarks at the Directed Energy Summit, Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Griffin expressed support for the United States partnering with allies to develop directed energy technologies.

(9) In 2019, the U.S. Missile Defense Review highlighted the promise that high-powered laser technology holds for boost-phase ballistic missile defense.

While the Congress website does not show the bill as having passed, such matters usually do end up being passed one way or another. My point in raising the bill at all is to show that there is always a strong and ever-present geopolitical and military context for directed energy research, and that big firms like Siemens are front and center in any effort to research such weapons technologies. In Siemens' case, the track record goes all the way back to the 1950s. (For those really paying attention, my strong suspicion is that if there was one firm in charge of the research into and use of chemical tunable lasers for the Nazi laser isotope enrichment program, it would have been Siemens. [q.v. my book The Philosophers' Stone] It is an oft-remarked fact by researchers into Siemens' role during wartime research that virtually nothing is known about it, and Siemens is not talking.)

The manner in which the helicopter carrying the unfortunate Senor Escobar and his family disintegrated suggests two things to me: (1) someone wanted him, or his wife, and possibly both, very much dead, and (2) wanted also to send a message by killing their children as well.  If that hypothesis be true, then the latter portion of it raises a question: to whom was the message intended, and what was the message? Siemens' interest in such directed energy technologies - and magnetic resonance imaging is a form of directed energy - and the application of that type of energy both for military and teleportation purposes highlight the possible connections of these three stories. We've seen dramatic evidence of the effectiveness of Israel's anti-ballistic-missile defenses during the recent Iranian responses to the bombings of Gaza by firing missiles toward that country.  So, to whom was Senor Escobar's death a message? And what was the message?

As of yet, in my opinion we do not know enough details to say with any certainty. We need to know much more about Senor and Senora Esobar's areas of management and expertise, their contacts, and associates. It would be interesting, indeed, to learn what companies were involved in House Bill 1795, or are involved in ongoing directed energy research, American, Israeli, or "otherwise".

But chances are that if one scratches and sniffs long enough, one will pick up the unique scent of the German technical and electronics giant...

See you on the flip side...

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