An electromagnetic pulse (sometimes abbreviated EMP) is a burst of electromagnetic radiation. The abrupt pulse of electromagnetic radiation usually results from certain types of high energy explosions, especially a nuclear explosion, or from a suddenly fluctuating magnetic field. The resulting rapidly changing electric fields and magnetic fields may couple with electrical/electronic systems to produce damaging current and voltage surges. In military terminology, a nuclear bomb detonated hundreds of kilometers above the Earth's surface is known as a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) device.
EMP has been dubbed a "weapon of mass disruption" because of its ability to devastate its target by disrupting electronic infrastructure..

Will you be flying in Operation "Lucky Fish Wash"????

Soon in a sim near you......

Strategic Retreat wrote on Nov 18^th, 2011 at 7:39pm:


Actually pretty much all of the US military's nuclear weapons can produce devastating EMP blasts that far out reach the physical effects of the bomb (like heat wave and pressure wave). The radiation could obviously pose a massive problem, but that is dependent on environmental conditions. That said, if you doubt the effects of a mass EMP detonation, imagine with no warning ALL your electronic devices fail. No phones, no cars, no internet, water system would fail, sewer system will fail, hospital equipment useless, food production useless. So everyone in the cities and built up areas will probably die. One report from Aviation Week indicated that one of our warheads detonated at the optimum altitude could create an EMP blast wave that could take out about 1/3 of the eastern half of the US. Thats a whole lot of people in danger. Remember the New York black outs? Childs play. Plus an EMP damages hardware, only replaces affected circuits will make devices work again. Plus with the way our power grid is put together, a major EMP blast would cause a devastating domino affect spreading power outages past the blast radius of the EMP.

Strategic Retreat wrote on Nov 19^th, 2011 at 9:31am:


Mutant fishes....think Godzilla..lol

Solid wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2011 at 10:31am:


A solar flare so powerful to knock out the power grids on the ground even for a little while would deep fry all the exposed comm and global positioning satellites into silicon based lumps aimlessly orbiting the planet. Let's just hope it won't happen.

Club508 wrote on Nov 27^th, 2011 at 7:38pm:



Unless it was extremely intense not much, unless you have a pacemaker.

Club508 wrote on Nov 27^th, 2011 at 7:56pm:


No, an EMP has no effect on the human body. The US military is working on a non-nuclear EMP, and if they can get it up to the effect of a nuclear detonation, that would be quite an effective weapon without the fallout of a nuke.
On a side-note, you would not need a Tsar-Bomba-sized weapon to affect a very large area, with a MIRV warhead you could potentially detonate a dozen 500+ kt warheads over a wide area.

RaptorF22 wrote on Nov 28^th, 2011 at 12:09am:


Please detail us the difference in radiation pollution and spreading of fallout this choice would entail.

It'd be simply dividing the power of a single Tsar Bomba over a spread of lesser devices. No net difference to speak of, in the end.

As about a non nuclear system to produce an EMP... in a lab is quite possible, but you need an huge expenditure of energy to cover an area of less than 500 squared meters. Can't see them managing an effective weapon anytime soon (unless they can put their hands on some antimatter, that is, metaphorically speaking).

With today´s technology an EMP bomb can be made the size of a card table!!!!!....This is a very, very dangerous device....be on the lookout of the Mission.....you will have to stop it in midair!!!!!!!!!!!!! before detonation or.......