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.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.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!"