Why are they not using EMPs to counter drones?

>>57996068 (OP)

The only reliable way to generate an EMP at this time is to use a nuclear weapon.

>>57996068 (OP)

i legitimately cannot tell if EMPfags are trolling or not.

>>57996068 (OP)

>wrap drone in microwave cage

checkmate human

Nope, there's far better ways like the Vircator or the RED(D)ITRON.

The problem with EMP/EW is that (easily) hardened drones are immune to it, you can jam (block comms) them but not kill them.

The trolls talk about grand scale EMP's; the actual retards humor the idea that that's not possible but smaller ones somehow are

I'm pretty sure most aren't. /v/idya and that One Second After book created a fuckton of misconceptions.

>How do we defend our gizmo from radiation?

>I know! More radiation!

Even in OP's pic, which is in Star Wars, it actually had a large-scale explosion take place before the EMP was generated. Even though they have ion munitions, whatever was in that thing still needed to functionally be a nuke to work.

the only small scale version I know of was MARAUDER, and that was more a minor side effect on top of the explosive force of the plasma toroids.

what sort of retards think small scale emps will do shit?

there is a small potential use for them in places with ancient electrical grids vulnerable to voltage spikes.... but thats about it.

>>57996068 (OP)

For practical purposes EMP isn't real. 



Now HPM - high power microwaves - that's what you're looking for. Search Epirus.

>>57996068 (OP)

Because it would open the door to scalar weapons, dipshit

>inb4 muh escalation

do you WANT them to activate Project Koschei, asshole?!

Are you retarded?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator

https://www.wikihow.com/Build-an-EMP-Generator

https://youtu.be/WVLmc4CG94Y [Embed]

tl;dr it's actually pretty easy to make an EMP generator. The problem is making one big enough to actually kill a drone more than a foot away.

a drone with a conductive material as the body is effectively its own faraday cage



EMPs are only damaging to the cheap shit plastic-cased ones, and that's before we consider the inescapable tyranny of the square cube law (i.e. effect falloff at a MINIMUM of the distance squared just due to geometry)



EMPs might genuinely be the most meme weapon in existence

MARAUDER was not in any sense "small scale"



the thing took up an entire fucking building and drew half the wattage of a town just to fire once



as for electrical grids... once you even slightly harden your infrastructure to solar storms EMPs get even MORE BTFO'd than they are by distance alone. you ain't competing with the EM flux of a CME impact - not even with nukes

uh huh.

and anon.

how big were its projectiles and blasts?

especially when compared to a NUCLEAR EXPLOSION?

and yes... that was my fucking point with the electrical grids. you will still see over voltage protections trip and require resets in some cases though.

as far as energy conversion goes MARAUDER doesn't compare well to nuclear weapons, but that's mostly because nothing does



however, specifically in the case of MARAUDER, the loss of energy in transit and inefficiencies in the driving electronics from simple resistive losses makes for a weapon that's less damaging to the target than a nuke a fraction the size would be, even with its high capability for specific targeting of damage. it's just not feasible.

sure, but not what was being argued here.
