Anti-typhoon Rocket

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Philippines is a third-world country. But did you know that during the time of former president Ferdinand E. Marcos, Philippines was one of the most powerful countries in Southeast Asia? Yes. That's a fact. Marcos saw the Philippines as a promising country in terms of resources and financial stability. He had many projects that aimed to make the lives of the Filipinos better in the future. One of his projects was the Anti-typhoon Rocket.

In 1973, the Philippines developed a missile system called Rain Weather Stimulation and Modernization Program. It was headed by Philippine Air Force Col. Ramon Macabuhay, together with a group of Filipino scientists and engineers. The goal of this project was to create a rocket that can weaken a storm before it becomes a full-blown typhoon.

The rocket used was a wooden rocket that contains Silver Iodide. Silver Iodide (AgI) is a crystaline material often used for weather modification such as cloud seeding or anti-hail systems. It is also used as an antiseptic material.

According to several publications, the anti-typhoon rockets are similar to the missiles in warfare but the aim is to weaken the storm. It is said that the rockets will be fired from a distance to protect the pilot and the aircraft. It does not need to fly the plane right into the eye of the typhoon.

Many test fires were tried in the Pacific Ocean and was considered successful. After having delivered the rocket with silver iodide, the typhoon broke into small groups and the wind and rainfall level was reduced.

However, the modification of this rocket was not continued because Marcos was removed as the president. When Cory Aquino took over, all of the projects of Marcos was stopped. There are many speculations about why Aquino stopped the projects of Marcos, but those are already outside the scope of this topic.

This project and its blueprint was also believed to be already sold to other nations. It is also said that Marcos was removed from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) because his project contradicted the project of the United States, which is known as the Geostorm.

Today, the Anti-typhoon Rocket was just a part of history. Maybe if this project was pushed through, it would have saved may lives and millions of lost properties caused by brutal typhoons (e.g. Ondoy 2009, Yolanda 2013, Ompong 2018) that hit the Philippines.

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Some MOVIES do this thing also, I don't know what name it is but they modified and can control the weather any of it as a typhoon, thunder, and any kind of natural disaster they also used rocket to stop that thing and yes they achieve to stop it but not all of them if this thing pushed through I think the Philippines will be the successful economic growth today.

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I think the movie you are referring to is the Geostorm. But I'm not that sure. 🤔 And you're right. If the projects of Marcos wasn't stopped, the Philippines will not be in deep debt to other countries.

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4 years ago

Yeah, that movie!, its sand even the power plant he is trying to implement stopped by those YELLOW TARDS people.

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4 years ago

This good to know. I think he has more good project but has a bad publicity that every Filipino misunderstood that time. Well I can't say more than this after all I wasn't in that Days back then.

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True. There are a lot of good projects that were stopped. But we can't really know the reasons behind this because there are many theories and speculations.

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4 years ago

This article is really great

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4 years ago

Thank you. :)

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4 years ago

Nice.late president Ferdinand Marcos next is Bobong Marcos son of Ferdinand Marcos

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Yes. Bongbong is the son of Ferdinand Marcos. Trivia: There was also a rocket that was developed during the Marcos regime and it was named after Bongbong.

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4 years ago

it was a very informative article it is really a big help in our country to if we have that, i really hope this article will inspire our president now so he can also use that kind of invention to help his countrymen.

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4 years ago

I think projects like these are possible if only we don't have corrupt gov't officials. :(

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that is the saddest part of our government they only think projects that will benefits first from theme self not for the whole country that's why people in low class is the one most affected. They will pass government project that is low quality but in the right price for them they will pass the bill.

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4 years ago

Philippines is not really poor bcoz we have lots of resources, it's just that we have poor government as it is empowered by corrupt officials. There are even some speculations that if we have a good leader Philippines will be one of the rich countries by 2050, because our resources has capability to produce oils. That's why some country or a specific country trying to claim one of our territories.

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True this. The Philippines is really rich in natural resources. I think with the current administration, that speculation is possible. If only we're not hit by this pandemic. :( Im not sure about the full details, but I saw on the news that PH once again borrowed funds from another country. PH I think is in deep debt now. :(

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Yeah I also seen the news that the government borrowed again to sustain financial aid in this pandemic. This is really sad, we don't know when will the pandemic stop or when will we recover. Our current administration now is doing good just that when our President finished his term, I don't know how our government runs again. Yellow tards are really persistent on getting higher position to do their selfish plans to manipulate everyone in the position so they can do corruption easily.

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