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software by using special programming means. These weapon types include the
means for defeating information security systems; penetrating the enemy’s
information systems; disabling all of, or a specific portion of, an information
system’s software, possibly at a very specific point in time or when a specific
event occurs in the system; making a covert, partial change in an operational
algorithm of a piece of software; collecting data that is circulating in the
enemy’s information system; delivering and inserting certain algorithms into a
specific place in an information system; and affecting the security systems of
facilities (with viruses, worms, etc.).
The fourth form, means for affecting the information transfer process,
can stop or disorganize the functioning of subsystems for the exchange of
information by affecting the signal-dissemination environment and operating
algorithms. Types of weapons belonging to this class include electronic
equipment, especially ground and air stations (helicopters, unmanned airborne
vehicles, etc.) that interfere with radio communications; disposable, airdroppable
interference transmitters; means that affect the protocols of data
transmission by communication systems and the data transmission itself; means
that affect algorithms used for addressing and routing; means for intercepting
and disrupting information as it passes through the technical channels of its
transmission; and means for causing system overload by making false requests
of a communications system.
The fifth form, means for propaganda and disinformation, can change
the information component of C2 systems; create a virtual picture of the
situation that differs from reality; change the system of human values; and
damage the moral-psychological life of the enemy population. Types of this
weapon include means for causing disinformation in secure systems and means
for modifying navigation systems, information and meteorological-monitoring
systems, precision-time systems, and so on.
Finally, for the sixth form, psychotronic weapons, Tsygichko and his
colleagues describe weapons that affect a person’s psychology and
subconscious in order to reduce will, suppress and or temporarily disable the
person, or zombify the person. These weapon types include:
• Psycho-pharmacological substances
• Psycho-dyspeptics
• Tranquilizers, anti-depressants, hallucinogens, and narcotics
• Specially structured medicines
• Special-beam generators that affect the human psyche
• Special video graphic and television information (25 th frame effect,
elevating blood pressure, inducing epileptic seizures, etc.)
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