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| Israel could send Iran ‘back to the stone age’ with electromagnetic bomb |
| 2012-09-09 |
| Posted by:Glinesh Craling7938 |
| #9 Much of Iran never left the Stone Age. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-09-09 20:09 |
| #8 Non-nuclear EMP bombs are feasible. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2012-09-09 19:17 |
| #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 |
| #6 I recommend 120-300 meters initially, then dropping back to cratering depth for the finale. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-09-09 13:04 |
| #5 yes, depends on yield and altitude |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-09-09 13:00 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |