Army Getting ElectroMagnetic Pulse Grenade to Mess up Bin Laden's Xbox

2009-02-22 16:17:56

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Harmor: Error_Name_Not_Found; +605|6985|San Diego, CA, USA

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Gizmodo wrote:
Those Pentagon heads have been playing too much Star Wars Republic Commando again, because now they want to give soldiers Electro-Magnetic Pulse grenades, according to the head of the new US Army's Electronic Warfare Division:

EMP grenade technology is out there, but I've never had my hands on one. The Army needs to have its own on-the-ground assets to complement our abilities, to get the enemy first or stop them from getting us on the ground.Electronic warfare is going to be fought on the ground, not just in the air, and you have to have an attack from the ground point of view.

Source: http://i.gizmodo.com/5152342/army-getti … adens-xbox

I guess the Taliban iPhones need to be jammed too.

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Last edited by Harmor (2009-02-22 18:04:19)

2009-02-22 16:19:18

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Poseidon: Fudgepack DeQueef; +3,253|6974|Long Island, New York

Or we could just detonate a nuke in the air above the Afghanistan/Pakistan border...that'd work well too.

2009-02-22 16:19:52

#3

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6906

Duh, the circuitry on bombs is electronic, no? EMP kicks the arse of everything.

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2009-02-22 16:21:02

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Doctor Strangelove: Real Battlefield Veterinarian.; +1,758|6904

Aside from the batteries in their technical and the SAMs that Reagan and Carter sold them, does the Taliban have any electronics whose neutralization warrants however much these cost?

2009-02-22 16:25:08

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Whiplash: Future Aviator; +40|6217|Central Texas

Couldn't an EMP grenade kill a human? Because the heart uses electric pulses in the heart.

2009-02-22 16:37:41

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SealXo: Member; +309|6972

Whiplash wrote:
Couldn't an EMP grenade kill a human? Because the heart uses electric pulses in the heart.

not unless you have a pacemaker or it goes off like 2 inchesfrom your chest

2009-02-22 16:38:26

#7

Flecco: iPod is broken.; +1,048|7101|NT, like Mick Dundee

DoctaStrangelove wrote:
Aside from the batteries in their technical and the SAMs that Reagan and Carter sold them, does the Taliban have any electronics whose neutralization warrants however much these cost?

Given the current economic climate, I'd say these are a bit of an insurance plan. Not for insurgents/guerilla fighters but rather for use against a conventional army.

Not sure how much electronics there are in today's tanks but I think a emp nade would probably fuck one over pretty bad.

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2009-02-22 16:41:30

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Doctor Strangelove: Real Battlefield Veterinarian.; +1,758|6904

SealXo wrote:
Whiplash wrote:
Couldn't an EMP grenade kill a human? Because the heart uses electric pulses in the heart.
not unless you have a pacemaker or it goes off like 2 inchesfrom your chest

Yep, an EMP is exactly what the name implies. A magnetic pulse, it's not electricity. It fries electrics by causing them to jump, short out and burn.

2009-02-23 04:43:33

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TimmmmaaaaH: Damn, I... had something for this; +725|6876|Brisbane, Australia

Did it really need the terrible photoshops, lame comic and the sarcasm?

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2009-02-23 05:56:21

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Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|7057|London, England

Poseidon wrote:
Or we could just detonate a nuke in the air above the Afghanistan/Pakistan border...that'd work well too.

That'd work well in fucking up everything in the area, not just Bin Laden's 360, the whole point of the "grenade" EMP is to have it only working in a small area

Saying that, the whole EMP thing is dodgy. It doesn't distinguish between friendly and enemy electronics you know, it just fucks up everything. Unless all your shit has electromagnetic shielding/Faraday cages and all that shit, and theirs doesn't, otherwise you're just shooting yourself in the foot too

2009-02-23 05:59:05

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AussieReaper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°); +5,761|6589|what

DoctaStrangelove wrote:
SealXo wrote:
Whiplash wrote:
Couldn't an EMP grenade kill a human? Because the heart uses electric pulses in the heart.
not unless you have a pacemaker or it goes off like 2 inchesfrom your chest
Yep, an EMP is exactly what the name implies. A magnetic pulse, it's not electricity. It fries electrics by causing them to jump, short out and burn.

But an ordinary grenade that goes of 2 inches from your chest kills you, so it doesn't make that much of a difference.

2009-02-23 05:59:47

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Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|7143|67.222.138.85

Mekstizzle wrote:
Poseidon wrote:
Or we could just detonate a nuke in the air above the Afghanistan/Pakistan border...that'd work well too.
That'd work well in fucking up everything in the area, not just Bin Laden's 360, the whole point of the "grenade" EMP is to have it only working in a small area

Saying that, the whole EMP thing is dodgy. It doesn't distinguish between friendly and enemy electronics you know, it just fucks up everything. Unless all your shit has electromagnetic shielding/Faraday cages and all that shit, and theirs doesn't, otherwise you're just shooting yourself in the foot too

Except as you said, the range issue.

You know a normal fragmentation grenade doesn't distinguish between friend and foe either, but they seem to have developed a place on the battlefield.

2009-02-23 06:02:09

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Surgeons: U shud proabbly f off u fat prik; +3,097|6926|Gogledd Cymru

I think what Mek is getting at is the range of the pulse, if it's further than you can throw the grenade it won't really work to your advantage.

2009-02-23 06:05:25

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Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Mekstizzle wrote:
Poseidon wrote:
Or we could just detonate a nuke in the air above the Afghanistan/Pakistan border...that'd work well too.
That'd work well in fucking up everything in the area, not just Bin Laden's 360, the whole point of the "grenade" EMP is to have it only working in a small area

Saying that, the whole EMP thing is dodgy. It doesn't distinguish between friendly and enemy electronics you know, it just fucks up everything. Unless all your shit has electromagnetic shielding/Faraday cages and all that shit, and theirs doesn't, otherwise you're just shooting yourself in the foot too
Except as you said, the range issue.

You know a normal fragmentation grenade doesn't distinguish between friend and foe either, but they seem to have developed a place on the battlefield.

Normal fragmentation granade is a tad more local than the atom bomb tbh

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2009-02-23 06:12:44

#15

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|7143|67.222.138.85

But we're not talking about a nuke.

2009-02-23 06:12:51

#16

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|7057|London, England

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Mekstizzle wrote:
Poseidon wrote:
Or we could just detonate a nuke in the air above the Afghanistan/Pakistan border...that'd work well too.
That'd work well in fucking up everything in the area, not just Bin Laden's 360, the whole point of the "grenade" EMP is to have it only working in a small area

Saying that, the whole EMP thing is dodgy. It doesn't distinguish between friendly and enemy electronics you know, it just fucks up everything. Unless all your shit has electromagnetic shielding/Faraday cages and all that shit, and theirs doesn't, otherwise you're just shooting yourself in the foot too
Except as you said, the range issue.

You know a normal fragmentation grenade doesn't distinguish between friend and foe either, but they seem to have developed a place on the battlefield.

But you could argue that it's probably easier to shield yourself from a normal grenade that you've thrown than it would be for something like this

2009-02-23 06:16:01

#17

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6817|the land of bourbon

isn't the idea to mess up any remote detonators on roadside bombs? most are triggered with cell phones, which an emp would fry, which would make bomb disposal easier...

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2009-02-23 06:31:46

#18

Flecco: iPod is broken.; +1,048|7101|NT, like Mick Dundee

steelie34 wrote:
isn't the idea to mess up any remote detonators on roadside bombs? most are triggered with cell phones, which an emp would fry, which would make bomb disposal easier...

In which case I'd think better wording would have been picked.

Like portable EMP generator or something.

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