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To: Southack
One nice EMP would wipe out your fleet, partner. Then you got nothing but harsh language for your attack.
46 posted on 04/18/2004 7:16:08 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache, but not quite worthy of Condi Rice.)
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To: Pukin Dog
EMP is overrated, at least against American technology. Its affects against optical computers are negligible, for instance...and even traditional electrical computers can be hardened against small and medium size EMP bursts.
50 posted on 04/18/2004 7:24:48 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Pukin Dog
One nice EMP would wipe out your fleet, partner. Then you got nothing but harsh language for your attack.

An EMP that would knock out a robot plane's computer would also knock out a manned plane's computer. Since all the new designs are fly-by-wire, and are unstable without a computer continually tweaking the flaps, the human pilot would be in real trouble

That's why modern planes' electronics are heavily shielded against EMP

A bigger concern would be an enemy cracking the encryption for the command channel. Suddenly, his hackers make all your bombers, THEIR bombers

Or, as the orientals like to say it: "All your base are belong to us!"

51 posted on 04/18/2004 7:27:26 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (That which does not kill me had better be able to run away damn fast.)
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