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Political extremists have attempted a number of attacks on electrical infrastructure and substations in recent years, with a goal of sowing chaos and civil conflict. The plots have repeatedly ...
Metcalf sniper attack CCTV footage (Attacks begin at around 1:54) Location Coyote, California, U.S. Date April 16, 2013 (2013-04-16) 12:58 – 1:50 a.m. (PDT) Target PG&E Metcalf substation Attack type Sabotage Weapons 7.62×39mm rifles On April 16, 2013, an attack was carried out on Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Metcalf transmission substation in Coyote, California, near the border of ...
A man was found guilty of conspiracy to damage an energy facility after officials say he planned to attack transformers inside Maryland electrical substations and cause a “cascading failure ...
On April 16, 2013, an attack was carried out on Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Metcalf transmission substation in Coyote, California, near the border of San Jose.The attack, in which gunmen fired on 17 electrical transformers, resulted in more than $15 million worth of equipment damage, but it had little impact on the station's electrical power supply.
The attacks serve both as a means of physical destruction and as a psychological weapon to pressure Earth into granting lunar independence. [ 28 ] In The Mote in God's Eye (1974) by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle , kinetic orbital bombardment is depicted as a strategic military option, utilizing high-velocity projectiles launched from space to ...
If a tether breaks, the backpack will propel them back to the ISS. If that fails, saving an astronaut floating off into space might require several tethers hooked together, a SAFER, and, to be ...
Less than two weeks prior to the Moore County substation incident, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had sent a report to private industry in which they stated that there had been an increase in reported threats to electric infrastructure from people who espouse “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist ideology," with an aim of creating civil disorder and inspiring further ...
"The Aurora attack is designed to open a circuit breaker, wait for the system or generator to slip out of synchronism, and reclose the breaker, all before the protection system recognizes and responds to the attack... Traditional generator protection elements typically actuate and block reclosing in about 15 cycles.