Two North Korean satellites, the KMS-3 and KMS-4, presently orbit over the U.S. on trajectories consistent with surprise EMP attack."
Posted on 05/13/2017 2:56:54 PM PDT by lancium
This one was fired toward China instead of Japan.
It does not.
Bump
Try the experiment again, this time putting the guy on block.
Yeah, standard fiberglass or carbon fiber offers no practical level of shielding to EMI/RFI. I think I saw the same idiot news piece.
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Unplugged is the first step to safety, but a grounded cage is far better.
Two North Korean satellites, the KMS-3 and KMS-4, presently orbit over the U.S. on trajectories consistent with surprise EMP attack."
Haha! Centex stands! I knew it!
;)
US Pacific Command confirms missile launch. The path wasn’t consistent with an ICBM.
Projectile launched not ICBM
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All “projectiles” launched follow a ballistic trajectory.
(Law of Gravity)
No, it’s radiation. But lets say that the big theoretical EMP pulse were to happen at 10,000 feet:
A lot of things would break down. Some things would lose some systems, but not all. A second, third, fourth and so on would be required to cause complete effect.
If an EMP were conducted closer, then it would be more effective, but the target area would be smaller.
The EMP devices setup by the military aren’t the “explosive in a coil” type of home-made jobbies that anyone can make. They are complex emitters usually mounted facing downward. They are total and complete. They are used to test military equipment against EMP affects.
We detonate atmospheric nukes all the time. The EMP effect is there, but it’s not even tactical.
A satellite CAN emit an EMP pulse but again at that distance it would need a few passes to cause significant damage. And the power is immense. It would weigh over a thousand pounds, at best. And I don’t know what kind of solar array it would need to recharge.
There is one kind of EMP, as there is one kind of Farraday cage. An EMP is an EMP and a Farrday Cage is a Farraday Cage. Some things act “as a kind of farraday cage” like some things act “as a kind of EMP”. Your car has properties of a Farraday cage, but it’s not a farraday cage. Stick a coil on the front of a stun gun and you have a sort of EMP as well.
I ran a jacob’s ladder when I was a kid and it caused mayhem around town. But I wasn’t quite building an RF jammer.
diesel lasts for years. But, you will still have to deal with the bad guys.
Doesn’t America have anti-satellite weapons that can take out Nork satellites?
Not exactly
The last time the experiment was tried was 9 July 1962. Google Starfish Prime.
A 1.4mt warhead was exploded 250 miles above Johnston Island. Here's how it looked from Honolulu, 900 miles away:
The resulting EMP knocked out 300 street lights, set off numerous burglar alarms, and damaged a microwave link.
Back then, everything was discrete components. Most radios used vacuum tubes. Transistor radios were new and were classified by how many transistors they had (these days, I carry around a few billion in my pocket). Ted Hoff wouldn't invent the microprocessor until about 1969.
There has never been a proper atmospheric test using modern electronics. The only reason Starfish Prime took place was that the Soviets had reneged on an earlier ban on above-ground tests.
Not quite true. France continued atmospheric testing all the way through to 1974 and China didn’t stop until 1980. The laggers’ tests did include microprocessor study samples.
For some microwave frequencies, yes.
You can see the oven light, so obviously some EM freqs aren’t covered by it.
I met that author once. Very neat fella, and quite prolific.
I'll wager a Moon Pie that the Norks already figured out how to impede our efforts, no thanks to the Clintons, Albright, and Odummy.
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