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2019-01-25 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

China, Russia Building Super-EMP Bombs for ‘Blackout Warfare'

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-25 01:59|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 You can make your electrical grid EMP resistant, but that would employ a bunch of burly toxic masculinity in work. Why do that when you can better spend the money on a million illegals for the next voting cycle. Not a hard decision for one part of the political animal. Now if one of those suckers goes off, everything becomes decentralized and local eliminating the entire point of corrupting a centralized swamp. It's worth the gamble isn't it? /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-25 08:10|| 2019-01-25 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 the strikes are regarded by adversaries as not an act of nuclear war.

Wanna bet?

Posted by Jack Greagum5721 2019-01-25 08:19|| 2019-01-25 08:19|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Yeah, cuz tens of millions of Americans totally wouldn't care if you bricked all their toys.

Posted by Voldemort Theck4956 2019-01-25 08:47|| 2019-01-25 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 *snorg!*
Farging nuclear clock scam now includes climate change.

It is a wonderful picture, generation cupie fire ant marching to Beijing after their smart things get zapped. Can't you see 'thar jillette blades 'gleaming!

As soon as they figure how to use a paper map. Or a compass. Or a can opener.

I take comfort in the fact that the worm has turned from 'go rural cuz that where food comes from' to 'Go to Whole Foods cuz that's where food comes from'.

Excluding those in the inner sanctums, if the world's power got shut off, I'd take North America as the first to recover.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-01-25 09:37|| 2019-01-25 09:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Excluding those in the inner sanctums, if the world's power got shut off, I'd take North America as the first to recover.

Rural midwest and southeast would be why. Lots of prepper, and rural folk still have skills.

Add in Texas, has its own powergrid not part of the east or west grid, plenty of petroleum and refineries that could be recovered quickly. Not to mention large amounts of military there. Just fence off Houston and Austin and Dallas until the urbanites collapse.

Posted by Glolush Whusotch4899 2019-01-25 10:16|| 2019-01-25 10:16|| Front Page Top

#6 ...no power for the pumps at the gas station. If their tanks aren't full for the zombie apocalypse, they'll be the zombies.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-25 10:53|| 2019-01-25 10:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Video of Libyans pulling gas out of tanks with dixie cups.

Video +2 minutes mechanical hand pump ordered.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-01-25 12:30|| 2019-01-25 12:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Politicians that didn't make our infrastructure EMP resistant back during the cold war should be sued for malpractice.

Having said that an EMP that would kill people vs one that would blackout a nation look the same when coming inbound on a missile. Such a move would be suicide if aimed at a nuclear power.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-01-25 15:05|| 2019-01-25 15:05|| Front Page Top

#9 An opening for some inventor to devise a better way to make transformers, mayhap a transformer that is more resistant to power surges like lightning strikes and EMP pulses. The Sun will hit us with another Carrington Event coronal discharge eventually.

Posted by magpie 2019-01-25 15:09|| 2019-01-25 15:09|| Front Page Top

#10 My comment is the electric power grid is a friking bad idea.

Look at it's losses!

It makes more sense to get electric power from natural gas at your own home. Generators with moving parts are not good so ecelerated R&D on natural gas fuel cells make a boat load of sense.

Posted by 3dc 2019-01-25 22:31|| 2019-01-25 22:31|| Front Page Top

#11 If they can make a natural gas fuel cell small and light enough even Tesla could dump most of their batteries and go with it.

Posted by 3dc 2019-01-25 22:33|| 2019-01-25 22:33|| Front Page Top

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