Army has new design for EMP bomb

On Mar 28, 7:23*am, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:

Arved Sandstrom wrote:

All joking aside that's pretty much the idea. A small munition that
doesn't (or can't) destroy the target through conventional effects for
various reasons, but nevertheless detonates close enough to whack the
electronics.

Will the EMP effect get into the tank? The steel armor would make the
whole vehicle a giant Faraday cage.

Pat

I honestly don't know. The EMP makers would want to choose a frequency
that's useful against target cables, wires and antennas, but not a
frequency band heavily attenuated by atmospheric moisture etc. The EMP
hardeners OTOH would have to look at the possible frequencies, and see
what maximum hull aperture sizes would be acceptable, or otherwise have
to be screened, and also do something about external conductors (like
antennas) penetrating the hull. And so forth.

I'm guessing that for something as expensive as a modern MBT that the
designers made the effort.

AHS

Considering at one time there was a possibility of using them in an
environment with tactical nukes going off around them, yeah, they
were, at least the US did it. I'm sure we shared enough with NATO
allies so they were in on it also.

I can remember doing calculations for prompt kills of crews by nuclear
effects. Pretty nasty business. I seem to remember 8000 rems for
immediate death, 6000 for sick enough not to be effective as a
fighting force. Infantry, well.....

EMP PROOF isnt possible, since the enemy will just build a bigger
bomb.......