Electromagnetic pulse weapons?

Question

They're discussed quite a bit but do they exist? I understand if the gov't wouldn't talk about it even if they did have them, but have there ever been any reports of them being used? Anyone build a portable version?

*piegowdealer*

-You're VERY much mistaken. The technology has existed to create powerful EMP's using conventional explosives has existed for years.

Answer 1

Well, I really can't say if we have the tech or not, but chances are we do, and if we are even doing nothing but research it is still classified, For Top Secret Eyes Only.

And I doubt theres too may people in here with a TS clearance or a need to know.

Below is a link that does discuss a bit about this though.

SFC
US Army
Retired

Answer 2

Portable?? About the only way to create a large enough EMP to be weapon grade is bu setting off a nuclear bomb.

That's the same problem Reagan ran into with his famous "Star Wars" weapons pipe dream.

Of course, I'm no nuclear physicist.

Answer 3

Ask the Russians! They have been studying the pulses in the upper atmosphere! Just tap into all that power and bring down to Earth for a brief moment and BAM!

Answer 4

I very much doubt a portable EMP weapon has been built. Takes a lot of energy to produce an EMP large enough to make it effective. I think we are a ways of to seeing a portable EMP weapon.

Answer 5

Not to my knowledge. A nuclear detonation makes a EMP, but I have heard that the US military is researching a EMP bomb. Still, just hearsay though.

Answer 6

i know they have EMP test facilities that can simulate it that they use to test the "hardness" of communications equipment headed for America's command and control apparatus, and they probably have portable variants, but as to whether they have conventional weapons that emit EMP, wouldn't that be impossible? you'd need something that generated Gamma rays, and those are radioactive, and therefore characteristic of nuclear devices. idk, i'm outa my field here