Even Obama is talking about large scale if not nationwide power outage due to cyber or infrastructure attack.
Of course he is. Some of our enemies have developed EMP weapons that could knock out most of the power over the USA with a
single high altitude explosion.
They didn't develop "EMP weapons" you dunderhead. EMP is a natural result of a nuclear explosion, and yes, they have calculated that if a nuclear device is detonated about 15 to 20 miles above the center of the country, if it was around 10 megatons, it would generate sufficient EMP to knock out our electrical grid.
But, there aren't all that many nations with a nuclear capability and the ability to launch ICBM missiles.
No, stupid fuck.....EMPs are easily detonated and Russia has the capability to knock out power on the aircraft carriers of USA.INC....happened in the Black Sea two years ago. You don't know shit........seriously.
Got any links to back up your claim that Russia has used EMP to knock out a carrier? I'm pretty sure that if it did happen, it would have been all over the news.
He is referring to this gem:
On 12 April 2014, an unarmed Russian
Su-24 "Fencer" fighter jet made twelve close-range passes of the USS Cook during a patrol of the western Black Sea.
[8][9][10] According to an allegation by a Pentagon spokesman, "The aircraft did not respond to multiple queries and warnings from Donald Cook, and the event ended without incident after approximately 90 minutes. <...> The Donald Cook is more than capable of defending itself against two Su-24s."
[11] In 2014, Russia′s
state-run news media outlets, without citing any specific sources of information, ran a series of reports that claimed that during that incident the Su-24, equipped with the
Khibiny electronic warfare system, disabled the ship's
Aegis combat systems.
[12][13][14] The jamming claims were ignored by Western mainstream media. They were dismissed in February 2015 as "nothing but a newspaper hoax" by the Khibiny jammer's Russian manufacturer KRET' website, which asserted that Khibiny was not installed on Su-24 but claimed it was "capable of completely neutralising the enemy radar".
[15] One analyst described the incident as "about as tame a flyby as you can get."
[10]
USS Donald Cook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On 10 April 2014,
the USS Donald Cook entered the waters of the Black Sea and on 12 April a Russian
Su-24 tactical bomber flew over the vessel triggering an incident that, according to several media reports, completely demoralized its crew, so much so that the Pentagon issued a protest [
1].
The
USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is a 4th generation guided missile destroyer whose key weapons are
Tomahawk cruise missiles with a range of up to 2,500 kilometers, and capable of carrying nuclear explosives. This ship carries 56
Tomahawkmissiles in standard mode, and 96 missiles in attack mode.
The US destroyer is equipped with the most recent
Aegis Combat System. It is an integrated naval weapons systems which can link together the missile defense systems of all vessels embedded within the same network, so as to ensure the detection, tracking and destruction of hundreds of targets at the same time. In addition, the
USS Donald Cook is equipped with 4 large radars, whose power is comparable to that of several stations. For protection, it carries more than fifty anti-aircraft missiles of various types.
Meanwhile, the Russian
Su-24 that buzzed the
USS Donald Cook carried neither bombs nor missiles but only a basket mounted under the fuselage, which, according to the Russian newspaper
Rossiyskaya Gazeta [
2], contained a Russian electronic warfare device called
Khibiny.
As the Russian jet approached the US vessel, the electronic device disabled all radars, control circuits, systems, information transmission, etc. on board the US destroyer. In other words, the all-powerful
Aegis system, now hooked up - or about to be - with the defense systems installed on NATO’s most modern ships was shut down, as turning off the TV set with the remote control.
The Russian
Su-24 then simulated a missile attack against the
USS Donald Cook, which was left literally deaf and blind. As if carrying out a training exercise, the Russian aircraft - unarmed - repeated the same maneuver 12 times before flying away.
After that, the 4th generation destroyer immediately set sail towards a port in Romania.
Since that incident, which the Atlanticist media have carefully covered up despite the widespread reactions sparked among defense industry experts, no US ship has ever approached Russian territorial waters again.
According to some specialized media, 27 sailors from the
USS Donald Cook requested to be relieved from active service.
Vladimir Balybine - director of the research center on electronic warfare and the evaluation of so-called "visibility reduction" techniques attached to the Russian Air Force Academy - made the following comment:
"The more a radio-electronic system is complex, the easier it is to disable it through the use of electronic warfare."
What spooked the USS Donald Cook so much in the Black Sea?
