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

Alan E & Carmel J Brain wrote:
> 
> 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).
> 
> Yes. MHD. Some of the larger ex-Soviet anti-ship missiles supposedly
had
> such options. There's even a web site somewheres giving the theory,
and
> some cross-section diagrams. The effect is very short ranged, but
> focussed and directional, with much of the energy going in the right
> direction. The idea was that a single missile would detonate well
before
> getting into CiWs range, and take out a lot of the comms and suchlike,
> causing resets on even the hardened stuff. Even a few seconds delay
> would be enough to let the others through.
> 
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reminds me of one of my favorite cyberpunk-ish era weapons
the EMP grenade.  
toss one in a room before a meet and scramble all those
nifty 
bugs left behind.  toss one in a room full of cyber wired
goons
and watch them twitch.	
however all this talk of nuke and such made me wonder if
such a
small scale weapon was possible.

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