This is the kind of talk you get from a nation that has been locked in childhood for decades and frightened into obedience by the nuclear 'threat'.
He didnt las long in Ukraine,Putins top military commander
it would help, but not fully protect...
As mentioned the car is essentially a faraday cage for most frequencies, but depending on it's shape, it may have pieces of the structure which may become resonant at certain frequencies (such as door frames, middle struts etc...) which is basically an antenna back into the cars earth system... any reactive components in line (inductors/capacitors) will become active with an induced voltage, and more than likely be damaged
it's a bit like a floating half faraday cage which is susceptible to some frequencies... given an EMP is an impulse response (all frequencies), unless fully grounded, something will get in somewhere...
a bit like why airplanes and boats have sacrificial elements to combat static and lightening, if hit by lightening (another impulse response), you usually still get some damage, but the lightening is directed around the skin of both... whereas an EMP will just illuminate an object, not necessarily looking for a specific path to ground, which lightening does
I read a study on this ages ago and apparently cars are pretty good at withstanding EMP bursts and they were testing modern cars which have a lot of electronics. A classic car from say the the 60's(or pretty much anything pre the 90's) wouldn't even notice. I'll try and find it.
Cars do well if struck by lightning.
Faraday's Law: the charge resides on the outside of the conductor.
Glass is an insulator though so electro-magnetic waves would not be stopped by windows or sunroofs.
Phones, SIMs, Memory, Bank Cards, etc. could go in an earthed, metal biscuit tin.
Does it have to be earthed? - I'm not sure.
Id be interested to see these Russian unmanned tanks and interceptor marine craft.
Smoke and mirrors is what Russia is about. I've no doubt they've dabbled in all.sorts of **** over the years including unmanned subs. But I've extreme doubt any of it was any good or is even operating.
You simply can't have good **** when you have this level of theft and corruption.
They don’t carry them there meant to be unmanned submarines/ warheads as in self driving.
if you look at the way things are going every thing is going that tanks, interceptor marine craft.
This is the 3rd time in a century that Russian Communism has committed mass murder in Ukraine in a century.
And it's not yet top 2
And that was dropped free fall. Imagine launching that from a sub... it would be huge.
The Russians have no single missile that could take out the UK and Ireland. No doubt they have the required weapons, but not a single missile.
50 megatons, but apparently designed to be a 100 megaton device. Look at the size of it. Now technology has come on in leaps and bounds since, but the physics remain the same. A 100 megaton device would be a very large weapon and any mini submarine that carried one wouldn't be very mini at all.
Fat Man and Little Boy were under 25 Kilotons, for comparison. That's plenty bad enough.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield
Yeah, the electro magnetic forces would be directed around the shell of the car and the interior would be protected just the same as a lighting strike
If you have sensitive electronic equipment and are worried about EMP stick it in the boot of your car (and hope nobody steals it)
Or a shipping container or an old van...
Currently the Russians bring mobile crematoriums with them so the cannon fodder policy has not changed
After a couple of claims from a couple of Ukrainian sources, a photo from 2014 that wasn't taken in Ukraine, that was a story that quietly went away due to a lack of any evidence. Never mind the sheer impracticaliy of it and the fact the Russians don't seem to care about leaving evidence behind and a war of carnage that buries evidence anyway, at least temporarily.
Reportedly indeed. This was the Soviet built Tzar Bomb, the largest ever detonated.
They show how they work in protecting against lightening strikes, but would they survive an EMP pulse?
Apparently would make the damage worse. 😕 Farady cage ftw.
Cars are basically already a Faraday cage
Might not be a bad idea to have for cars. Its hard to imagine protecting the grid.
A cheap faraday cage constructed in minutes can protect electronics.
Silly question, would disconnecting a battery in a car be of benefit?
few layers of tinfoil supposedly does the trick...
military electrical/electronic equipment is usually hardened/protected against EMP, the weak point is the input and output to the system..
a bit like a lightening surge getting into a copper telecoms system, it's damage control at that point...
This can be mitigated with fibre optics as I/O, but for RF equipment, best practice is to disconnect completely any antennas and feeders.... that's assuming you know when it's going to hit.... after that, it's surge protection into dummy loads, but the signals levels and voltages of an EMP are silly, so make equipment big and cumbersome.
Commercial sats have some protection, as they need to transit the van allen belts, have sun outages, survive solar storms etc... but their approach is as above, where they switch everything off during this, with surge protection & sacrificial circuits as a protective backup.
edit: terrestrial equipment would be fooked :-D there's numerous examples or terrestrial point to point links being fried during solar bursts towards earth, if their dish happens to be pointing in the suns general direction when the earth is hit.
A couple of RuSSian boats went to Davy Jones locker this morning.
Saw this comment online under that tweet....
"We British are much like cockroaches. Invulnerable to poison or radiation thanks to our diet and drinking, violent and depressed thanks to 10 months a year of drizzle and overcast skies, insensible to the consequences of our actions as evidenced by our current government and Brexit.
You don't want to start this, Russia. We will feast on your remains after dousing them in vinegar and washing them down with cheap lager."
Have seen mention of EMP blasts taking out military assets. Pretty sure equipment can be protected against EMP threat in advance, unlike domestic equipment.
The slogan "Never again" comes to mind but here we are a few decades later and....
Watching a clip of US TV journalist Scott Pelley and he says the scale of destruction he has seen in Ukraine is much worse than anything he ever witnessed on previous war assignments in Central America, Iraq, Afghanistan and South Sudan. We're nearly not comprehending the sheer level of violence and destruction the Russian fascists have unleashed on their neighbouring state.
Yes that was April 28th:
Lavrov warned NATO on Tuesday against supplying Ukraine with more weapons, saying the US-led military alliance “is engaged in a war with Russia through a proxy.” He warned that the dangers of a nuclear conflict are now “considerable.”
Then today:
Russia is committed to working to prevent a nuclear war ever beginning, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an Italian television interview today.
"Western media misrepresent Russian threats," Mr Lavrov said, speaking in Russian through an Italian interpreter.
"Russia has never interrupted efforts to reach agreements that guarantee that a nuclear war never develops," he said.
They flip-flop daily and also depends on who their audience is. Most of the shite you hear is from the RT puppets for domestic consumption.
I;m sure if we had easy access to North Korea propaganda, the trend would be similar.
Doesn't know countries don't float on water and doesn't know how tsunami's work
In reality with a nuclear strike, nobody wins. I'm not sure if the movie WarGames was shown in Russia, but it should have been.
Their rhetoric lately just shows they feel they are loosing and loosing badly. You would swear they are the only country with nuclear weapons and they have been shown restraint about using them.
Russia successfully launched a test of the Satan II missile and the Russian media act like they have hundreds ready to go!
A Tsunami "500m" high that would pass over the "British isles"? Does he think that both Ireland and Britain are flat featureless plains much like that between Kyiv and Moscow or something?
In 1958, a 500m plus foot tsunami hit Lituya Bay, a fjord in Alaska, as a result of an earthquake some 13 miles away. The entire landmass of Alaska was not inundated
Their intentions are clear in that they wish to destroy Ireland too. They even made an animation.
Clearly see us as an enemy. Telling us.
Its not just Russian media either threatening all types of armaggedon
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