Do you know about CHAMP and its capabilities ?
Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) ( 2:17 )
defenseupdate on on May 16, 2015
If EMP weapons were that easy to build, we’d have them in our arsenal.
That’s a nonsense statement, but we most definitely do have them.
...uh...we do. We also have them non nuke.
So...you’re joking around, right?
Any nuclear device, when detonated, emits an EMP pulse. It is just a matter of how the designers enhanced the weapon design to emit the desired amount of EMP.
We do have them, they are called nukes. Detonate one in the ionosphere and the energy is conducted as a large electronic flux or EMP.
But you are correct, the Nork would need a reliable nuke small enough to fit on a reliable rocket to get this done. It is not clear he is there yet.
Yet is the key word.
Who says we don't already . . . .
If we were hit with an EMP, will there even be the possibility of retaliation considering that everything will be down?
They are easy to build, EMP is just not effective.