“Things are never over enveloping though when it comes to EMP planning. A lot of devices will still survive, there will be gaps in field strengths ect.”
True....
“A small kiloton weapon won’t do it, and it would have to be placed just right. Think hundreds of kilotons. “
Actually, according to research an EMP is not so much dependent upon yield - 100kT doesn’t produce 10 x what a 10kT produces. The altitude required is 50km -> 400km which is more a factor of atmospheric density than anything else.
“The best emps for targeting iran will have to be multiple and localized targeting critical infrastructures with the expectation that these won’t be able to fry everything. They will be high speed inductor/capacitor saturation type devices which when they oversaturate and “break or snap”, they give off a very strong burst of low frequecy high amplitude magnetic energy over a localized defined area which declines squarely with distance.”
This won’t be the case. If you are already on the ground with the logistics to carry multiple of these types of devices, you may as well carry a conventional bomb and blow stuff up with it.
Which is part of the reason why I don’t hold with an emp attack per se over Iran. You can’t predict how things would go with too high of an EMP and too low and you might as well bomb stuff. Now an emp near transformers and hightension wires can cascade effects over hundreds of miles and knock out power systems...like a Solar flare might do. If an EMP is positioned to destroy sensitive stuff without damaging civilian structures near bye, that would be a useful tool. So yeah, I agree with you.