Zone1 Russian EMP capabilities......why aren't we taking this seriously?

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I just heard about this from a relative who was watching a podcast called "Valuetainment." The host interviewed the author of this paper............why aren't we taking this seriously, and do you think that the current administration would be willing to launch nuclear weapons in retaliation for an HEMP strike?

HEMP—The Ultimate Cyberweapon
Any nuclear weapon detonated in outer space, 30 kilometers or higher, will generate a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP). No blast, thermal, fallout or effects other than HEMP are experienced in the atmosphere and on the ground. A nuclear detonation at 30 kilometers altitude will generate a HEMP field with a radius on the ground of 600 kilometers, damaging all kinds of electronics, blacking-out electric grids and collapsing other life-sustaining critical infrastructures.

Detonated at 400 kilometers altitude, the radius of the HEMP field will be about 2,200 kilometers, large enough to cover most of North America.11


Russia has what they term “Super-EMP” weapons, nuclear warheads specialized for HEMP attack. Super-EMP warheads have very low explosive yield (10 kilotons or less) but very high gamma yield, which is what generates HEMP. According to Russian military and technical sources, Super-EMP weapons can generate HEMP fields of 100,000 volts/meter or higher, greatly exceeding the U.S. military hardening standard for HEMP (50,000 volts/meter).12
Russian military doctrine, because HEMP attacks electronics, categorizes nuclear HEMP attack as a dimension of Information Warfare, Electronic Warfare and Cyber Warfare, which are modes of warfare operating within the electromagnetic spectrum.13

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Russian and Chinese military doctrine also advocates a revolutionary new way of warfare rendering obsolete traditional military power by relying on cyber-attacks, sabotage, and EMP to
collapse adversary electric grids and life-sustaining critical infrastructures, thereby achieving victory.53
Russian cyber-attacks against U.S. and allied electric grids are the “edge of the wedge” for this new way of warfare that could culminate in unleashing of a VOSTOK-18 for real—or make VOSTOK-18 unnecessary for global conquest.
As noted earlier, in July 2018, two months before VOSTOK-18, the Department of Homeland Security revealed Russian cyber-weapons Dragonfly and Energetic Bear penetrated hundreds of U.S. electric utilities and could cause a nationwide blackout.54
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Non-Nuclear EMP Weapons (NNEMP)


Russia probably remains the world’s leader in Non-Nuclear EMP (NNEMP) weapons, more commonly called Radio-Frequency Weapons (RFWs), which have been the focus of “intense effort aimed at the development of high-power microwave and millimeter-wave sources for radio frequency weapons” since the Cold War, to the continuing alarm of the Department of Defense.62
Russia apparently has developed and deployed NNEMP weapons significantly more powerful and with longer range than any other nation. Russian military and technical sources often describe their NNEMP weapons as having ranges of 10-20 kilometers or more, while Western NNEMP weapons rarely have a range exceeding 1 kilometer in radius.63
For example, according to a Sputnik article “Russia’s Electromagnetic Weapons Could Be ‘More Efficient Than Nuclear Weapons’”:
--“Russia is developing radio-electronic weapons, which use powerful UHF impulse capable of destroying all electronic equipment miles away and even changing the course of a war.”
--“The unique radio-electronic weapons based on new physical principles, which were successfully tested in Russia last fall, use mobile electromagnetic emitters to disable missile warheads and onboard aircraft electronics miles away.”
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Relatively small numbers of NNEMP cruise missiles or drones—perhaps only one capable of protracted flight—could inflict a long nationwide blackout. Reportedly, according to a classified study by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, disabling just 9 of 2,000 U.S. EHV transformer substations could cause cascading failures that would crash the North American power grid.67


Imagine an attack on the first day of winter here in the U.S.......cold, starvation, lack of water would destroy us....right?
 
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An interview with the author of that paper.....



 
Russian EMP capabilities......why aren't we taking this seriously?

The story I got is that Biden meets everyday thinking and worrying about all of the possible permutations and options if Russia does this or that with nukes,

then turns around and sends Ukraine more money, aid and gear to antagonize them further.


---Impeachable proof yet again that this asshole would rather risk all of America and all our lives rather than stop on his mission to protect this money laundering outfit so he don't get fried as a traitor!
 
Key MSM employees are WEF obligated .
End of .


And then you get Clueless Ones here who believe that the American military is mighty --- now ranks number three, and that America would "win" any full war with Russia -- almost certainly untrue .
 
Because at this point, do we really believe anything Russians say? There are propagandists in Russia that are saying that Berlin and Washington D.C. is next after Ukraine. They can't even finish the appetizer on their plate, and they want to take on the main course? I don't think so.
The only capability needed is a rocket capable of reaching low earth orbit and a nuke. Russia and China have both.
 
Because at this point, do we really believe anything Russians say? There are propagandists in Russia that are saying that Berlin and Washington D.C. is next after Ukraine. They can't even finish the appetizer on their plate, and they want to take on the main course? I don't think so.

Military experts and including Janes
Jane's Information Group, now styled Janes, is a global open-source intelligence company specialising in military, national security, aerospace and transport topics, whose name derives from British author Fred T---------------.

Stop waffling and DYOR . You make it up as you go.
 
The only capability needed is a rocket capable of reaching low earth orbit and a nuke. Russia and China have both.


Yeah? And so have we. The whole of the free world is probably aiming everything they have at Moscow just in case right now, I wouldn't worry about it. We've only been shitting ourselves over nuclear war for months, and nothing has even happened.
 
Yeah? And so have we. The whole of the free world is probably aiming everything they have at Moscow just in case right now, I wouldn't worry about it. We've only been shitting ourselves over nuclear war for months, and nothing has even happened.
A few high altitude nuclear detonations and we would be in serious trouble. Most of our conventional forces aren't hardened against an EMP and none of the civilian infrastructure is. If the US is seriously damaged by an EMP do you really think any of the other countries will retaliate ?
 
A few high altitude nuclear detonations and we would be in serious trouble. Most of our conventional forces aren't hardened against an EMP and none of the civilian infrastructure is. If the US is seriously damaged by an EMP do you really think any of the other countries will retaliate ?


Do you actually believe Russia would do it?


This is nothing but a propaganda war at this point, and I don't believe much of what anybody says about it all. The Russians are blowing smoke, because their army is being smoked. I am least concerned about Rusks, I am most concerned about China.
 
Do you actually believe Russia would do it?


This is nothing but a propaganda war at this point, and I don't believe much of what anybody says about it all. The Russians are blowing smoke, because their army is being smoked. I am least concerned about Rusks, I am most concerned about China.
As a last resort Russia will push that button. Right now China is an economic danger not a military one. The US buys the majority of China's cheap shit. It would be stupid for them to damage the US.
 
I just heard about this from a relative who was watching a podcast called "Valuetainment." The host interviewed the author of this paper............why aren't we taking this seriously, and do you think that the current administration would be willing to launch nuclear weapons in retaliation for an HEMP strike?

HEMP—The Ultimate Cyberweapon
Any nuclear weapon detonated in outer space, 30 kilometers or higher, will generate a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP). No blast, thermal, fallout or effects other than HEMP are experienced in the atmosphere and on the ground. A nuclear detonation at 30 kilometers altitude will generate a HEMP field with a radius on the ground of 600 kilometers, damaging all kinds of electronics, blacking-out electric grids and collapsing other life-sustaining critical infrastructures.

Detonated at 400 kilometers altitude, the radius of the HEMP field will be about 2,200 kilometers, large enough to cover most of North America.11


Russia has what they term “Super-EMP” weapons, nuclear warheads specialized for HEMP attack. Super-EMP warheads have very low explosive yield (10 kilotons or less) but very high gamma yield, which is what generates HEMP. According to Russian military and technical sources, Super-EMP weapons can generate HEMP fields of 100,000 volts/meter or higher, greatly exceeding the U.S. military hardening standard for HEMP (50,000 volts/meter).12
Russian military doctrine, because HEMP attacks electronics, categorizes nuclear HEMP attack as a dimension of Information Warfare, Electronic Warfare and Cyber Warfare, which are modes of warfare operating within the electromagnetic spectrum.13

------------


Russian and Chinese military doctrine also advocates a revolutionary new way of warfare rendering obsolete traditional military power by relying on cyber-attacks, sabotage, and EMP to
collapse adversary electric grids and life-sustaining critical infrastructures, thereby achieving victory.53
Russian cyber-attacks against U.S. and allied electric grids are the “edge of the wedge” for this new way of warfare that could culminate in unleashing of a VOSTOK-18 for real—or make VOSTOK-18 unnecessary for global conquest.
As noted earlier, in July 2018, two months before VOSTOK-18, the Department of Homeland Security revealed Russian cyber-weapons Dragonfly and Energetic Bear penetrated hundreds of U.S. electric utilities and could cause a nationwide blackout.54
---------


Non-Nuclear EMP Weapons (NNEMP)


Russia probably remains the world’s leader in Non-Nuclear EMP (NNEMP) weapons, more commonly called Radio-Frequency Weapons (RFWs), which have been the focus of “intense effort aimed at the development of high-power microwave and millimeter-wave sources for radio frequency weapons” since the Cold War, to the continuing alarm of the Department of Defense.62
Russia apparently has developed and deployed NNEMP weapons significantly more powerful and with longer range than any other nation. Russian military and technical sources often describe their NNEMP weapons as having ranges of 10-20 kilometers or more, while Western NNEMP weapons rarely have a range exceeding 1 kilometer in radius.63
For example, according to a Sputnik article “Russia’s Electromagnetic Weapons Could Be ‘More Efficient Than Nuclear Weapons’”:
--“Russia is developing radio-electronic weapons, which use powerful UHF impulse capable of destroying all electronic equipment miles away and even changing the course of a war.”
--“The unique radio-electronic weapons based on new physical principles, which were successfully tested in Russia last fall, use mobile electromagnetic emitters to disable missile warheads and onboard aircraft electronics miles away.”
-----------


Relatively small numbers of NNEMP cruise missiles or drones—perhaps only one capable of protracted flight—could inflict a long nationwide blackout. Reportedly, according to a classified study by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, disabling just 9 of 2,000 U.S. EHV transformer substations could cause cascading failures that would crash the North American power grid.67


Imagine an attack on the first day of winter here in the U.S.......cold, starvation, lack of water would destroy us....right?
I don't think our ballistic missile submarines are vulnerable and would be a good deterrent.
 
The powers that be need fear to keep the masses under control.
 
The fact that you seriously believe Russia would do it. They're outnumbered, outgunned, and outwitted.
The same Russia that has historically thrown bodies at a problem until they won for centuries ? The same Russia that is led by an old school KGB Communist ?

Being outnumbered, outgunned and outwitted can put one into a fuck it mode.
 

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