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2012-09-09 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel could send Iran 'back to the stone age' with electromagnetic bomb

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Posted by Glinesh Craling7938 2012-09-09 06:42|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [176 views ] Top

#1 ....The thought just occurred to me - of ALL the people in the world who would have a valid military reason to come up with a practical (as opposed to improvised) EMP device, it would be the Israelis. Think about it for a second - they face tightly controlled, centralized dictatorships. If those dictatorships lost their electronics - which aren't hardened to anything like our standards - all they command is what's within the sound of their voices...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2012-09-09 11:52|| 2012-09-09 11:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Unfortunately, EMP bombs area of affect do not respect national borders. They'd better be very, very careful where they set such a thing off or the neighbors would be REALLY upset.

And I think some of Iran's neighbors have the ability to do something about it.

Orion

Posted by Orion 2012-09-09 12:34|| 2012-09-09 12:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Do EMP bombs come in sizes with differing "blast radii"?

How big an area are we talking about if the centered one on Tehran for examle?

Posted by AlanC 2012-09-09 12:39|| 2012-09-09 12:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, effect varys with boom size, altitude and distance. Most efficient use looks to be by a one bomb nation against a no-bomb nation. Use against a real nuke power gets you glassed, since real nuke powers tend to keep all their goodies in farraday cages.

Posted by Shipman 2012-09-09 13:00|| 2012-09-09 13:00|| Front Page Top

#5 yes, depends on yield and altitude

Posted by Frank G 2012-09-09 13:00|| 2012-09-09 13:00|| Front Page Top

#6 I recommend 120-300 meters initially, then dropping back to cratering depth for the finale.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-09-09 13:04|| 2012-09-09 13:04|| Front Page Top

#7 The emp pulse would have an interesting surge in velocity effect on 50,000+ hi-speed centrifuges.

Posted by Water Modem 2012-09-09 13:21|| 2012-09-09 13:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Non-nuclear EMP bombs are feasible.

Posted by phil_b 2012-09-09 19:17|| 2012-09-09 19:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Much of Iran never left the Stone Age.

Posted by Glenmore 2012-09-09 20:09|| 2012-09-09 20:09|| Front Page Top

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