Posted on 02/04/2023 8:26:32 AM PST by Cecily
Who says so. From Wikipedia:
A nuclear electromagnetic pulse (nuclear EMP or NEMP) is a burst of electromagnetic radiation created by a nuclear explosion. The resulting rapidly varying electric and magnetic fields may couple with electrical and electronic systems to produce damaging current and voltage surges. The specific characteristics of a particular nuclear EMP event vary according to a number of factors, the most important of which is the altitude of the detonation.
The term “electromagnetic pulse” generally excludes optical (infrared, visible, ultraviolet) and ionizing (such as X-ray and gamma radiation) ranges. In military terminology, a nuclear warhead detonated tens to hundreds of miles above the Earth’s surface is known as a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) device. Effects of a HEMP device depend on factors including the altitude of the detonation, energy yield, gamma ray output, interactions with the Earth’s magnetic field and electromagnetic shielding of targets.
But Joe Biden will do it to try and save face. But he wont’ do it before China has collected everything they need/want.
What happens if we send a baloon to fly over China?
30-50 miles is the best and most destructive height, for an EMP blast, to cover a wide area.
Around Columbia, a friend sent me a picture.
“Shoot it down over international waters. Minimal damage to the payload upon recovery. Then see what the Chicom’s do.”
No, shoot it down within our territorial waters, which extend out 12 nautical miles from shore. That way the ChiComs and their acolytes can’t screech about it being shot down over international waters.
China has a fleet of satellites with some of the most advanced cameras available staring down at us constantly from space.
I'm starting to think maybe it actually was just a weather balloon.
Not what Lloyd said. He said it was a survellience balloon. That he and Biden let go across the entire country. If it were just a weather balloon, why the need to shoot it down?
Hehehe! Let’s try it and find out.
I think you are right.
Because we've put retards in charge of the country.
I think you might be right.
Thank GOD we are safe now!!!!
Well, that goes without saying. However, there are garden variety “retards” who are usually benign. Then there are the Joe Biden “retards” who are self-serving and malignant.
FYI: The warhead on the US Sidewinder missile did NOT detonate when it impacted the Chinese War Balloon. It could be because the target was too soft to cause the missile’s impact fuse to work, and maybe its proximity fuse could not “see” the thin floating balloon enough, that it was unable to reflect enough of a signal to “read” its proximity. But more likely? I believe the US Air Force removed the explosive warhead from the missile, so they were basically firing a supersonic dart at the balloon, so as to take no chances of damaging the technological apparatus it was carrying!
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