Re: EMP (was Re: Space crews and solar flares. )

Los spake thusly upon matters weighty: 

I had heard the US was working on a deployable technology which could 
do this. I think I heard missiles (like HARMS in targeting, but using 
EMP for effect). Nasty for FT.....

> Christopher Pratt wrote:
> 
> > Just something that came up the other day, is there any way
> > to create
> > a EMP with out blowing a nuke, triggering a solar flare,
> > etc...etc... (perhaps less destructive).
> >
> 
> I don't know if it could be turned into a weapon but there's a testing
> platform out in the Desert that the US uses to test EMP hardning of
> systems. I've seen pictures of it. The platform is big enough to taxi
a
> jet liner on to. It is surrounded by what looks like banks of stadium
> lights and is capable of generating EMPs comparable to that of a
nuclear
> weapon as you would receive assuming you were outside of the lethal
> blast radius.
> 
> Los
> 
> 
> 
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