• Question: Would it work if you put an EMP cannon on a aircraft? Also, could an EMP disable a radar? Thanks

    Asked by to Edward, Ian, Mathew, Naomi, sakshisharda on 24 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Ian Stephenson answered on 24 Jun 2014:

      An EMP can wipe out most electronics that aren’t specifically built with protection and shielding. An EMP would wipe out a radar startion pretty effectively, but I’m not sure I’d want to be on the plane that was carrying it…

      You’d need a lot of shielding to make sure that the EMP didn’t knock out the planes electronics, and the plane would probably crash.

      Also if the point of taking out the radar is to not be detected, then sending out a massive EMP pulse might give the game away

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