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Dear Josh TN,
Up until 1960, both the USA and the USSR built numerous EMP simulators to test "hardened" military electronics.
Most used a stack of charged capacitor plates. Then they used explosives to instantaneously collapse the stack, releasing a huge electro-magnetic pulse. Being explosively initiated, they were only good for one "shot."
After 1960, the USA quit publishing results of ground-based EMP simulators. I doubt if they quit building EMP simulators, but they just quit publishing results.
A major advantage of High Pulse Microwaves is that they can be "fired" repeatedly during a single flight (e.g. targeting multiple cell phone towers).
Up until 1960, both the USA and the USSR built numerous EMP simulators to test "hardened" military electronics.
Most used a stack of charged capacitor plates. Then they used explosives to instantaneously collapse the stack, releasing a huge electro-magnetic pulse. Being explosively initiated, they were only good for one "shot."
After 1960, the USA quit publishing results of ground-based EMP simulators. I doubt if they quit building EMP simulators, but they just quit publishing results.
A major advantage of High Pulse Microwaves is that they can be "fired" repeatedly during a single flight (e.g. targeting multiple cell phone towers).