We need to start developing guns that can shoot close/mid range EMP pulses.
In the NH debate Ted Cruz made the good suggestion that we should harden our electric grid against EMPs.
“We need to start developing guns that can shoot close/mid range EMP pulses.”
Contrary to popular Internet legend, EMP isn’t this “destroy all thing electronic and electrical”. heck, if it were, you wouldn’t survive (your very heartbeat relies on electrical impulses). EMP may disrupt something but it doesn’t destroy it unless it is connected to very long wires that can absorb the pulse over very long distances. EMP lasts a few milliseconds and it over. It doesn’t hang around forever like those on the Internet claim. It is a very brief electrical pulse that is actually very weak.
“We need to start developing guns that can shoot close/mid range EMP pulses.”
Such guns exist (microwave based), but the robots can be hardened against them fairly easily. Autonomous robots don’t need a constantly active radio link.
High caliber firearms should work against the lightly armored ones, though...