Air Force warns of 'coordinated physical attacks' on electric grid
"Experts have suggested that North Korea, for example, is testing missiles to launch a nuclear weapon from a ship off the U.S. coast into the atmosphere where an explosion could shut off electricity for months through an atmospheric EMP explosion."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/air-force-warns-of-coordinated-physical-attacks-on-electric-grid/article/2586726 (Mar 24, 2016)
Beat me to it with the EMP reference.
A air burst at a certain altitude is what you want for an EMP attack. Precise targeting of a city center (i.e. Hiroshima) is not needed if you just want to fry the grid.
Yeah...that’s not good.
I agree. It’s a sub delivered EMP attack.
Complete BS.
There's so much propaganda flying right now that no one knows what to believe.
As far as I'm concerned, every missile launch that was a flop was indeed a FLOP! They have no missile program, they have no satellite program, their people are starving and their active military are totally in the dark about the incapability's of their own and the actual capabilities of the United States and its allies.........
They're still living under a 1950's Korean war mentality that ended in a draw and figure they can still compete today when the reality is that they're still living in the 1950's while the rest of the world in the 21st century.........
They have an ‘advantage’ of sorts, in that if they were to test an EMP device over their own territory, the result of knocking their country back into the Stone Age would be hardly noticeable, as they’re already pretty close to the Stone Age in many ways.
I’m not sure I buy this. Reports were that the missile was spinning out of control when it detonated. And if you were testing an EMP device, you’d do it on entry, not liftoff.
More EMP nonsense.
Someone at the Examiner has been watching too much of “The Matrix”
This is right out of the 50s Cold War.
USSR says they have (insert nonsense)
USA military says they need (insert more nonsense) to counteract USSR.
The only thing that was a REAL surprise from the USSR was the Tsar Bomb and it was mostly a propaganda tool.
Adding more U238 to the Third Stage could have easily created a 100MT weapon.
Now...could the USSR have launched the Tsar Bomb and created a REAL EMP device.
Sure assuming they could get it off the ground without exploding.
Most likely it would have detonated soon after launch.
What most people don’t think about is what made ICBM’s possible was the safety which prevented the warhead from detonating until you wanted it to.
Hard to do with all the G-force and Pogo on liquid boosters.