North Korea "super EMP weapons?"
By JIM STONE
I bothered with this for entertainment purposes only, this is pure crap
Ok, so there is a story circulating about North Korea having two "super powerful miniaturized EMP weapons in orbit". And it is BULLSHIT.
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-threat-is-real-and-imminent-two-north-korean-satellites-orbiting-over-u-s-may-be-armed-with-miniaturized-super-emp-weapon_10022016
First of all, you can't just take a toroid choke out of a puny computer power supply and destroy the world with it, and that literally is what North Korea would be capable of putting into orbit. North Korea was able to launch two small satellites weighing a few kilograms with limited capabilities. That is an accomplishment because they worked.. However, the smallest possible EMP weapon, even a miniaturized one, needs a lifting platform strong enough for space shuttle type operations - multiple thousands of pounds payload - to put it into orbit. "Going into space" and "putting something in orbit" are two entirely different things, it does not take nearly as much to launch a rocket with a nuke that is going to come right back down as it does to put even a small object into long term orbit.
The story is that the EMP weapons are "super miniaturized". You know, like little moped motors when even the U.S. needs a semi truck engine to get anything meaningful done. Yep.
If North Korea launched an EMP weapon, regardless of what technology was used it might show up as a single static tick on an AM radio. Size does matter, the only thing significant about what North Korea did was that the satellites worked as intended, which means they could relay communications if you would want them to, and would also probably be able to support a nice Nikon consumer level super zoom camera that would probably see an aircraft carrier from orbit. It also obviously means that North Korea is not an incompetent nation.
EMP threat? A joke.
By JIM STONE
I bothered with this for entertainment purposes only, this is pure crap
Ok, so there is a story circulating about North Korea having two "super powerful miniaturized EMP weapons in orbit". And it is BULLSHIT.
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-threat-is-real-and-imminent-two-north-korean-satellites-orbiting-over-u-s-may-be-armed-with-miniaturized-super-emp-weapon_10022016
First of all, you can't just take a toroid choke out of a puny computer power supply and destroy the world with it, and that literally is what North Korea would be capable of putting into orbit. North Korea was able to launch two small satellites weighing a few kilograms with limited capabilities. That is an accomplishment because they worked.. However, the smallest possible EMP weapon, even a miniaturized one, needs a lifting platform strong enough for space shuttle type operations - multiple thousands of pounds payload - to put it into orbit. "Going into space" and "putting something in orbit" are two entirely different things, it does not take nearly as much to launch a rocket with a nuke that is going to come right back down as it does to put even a small object into long term orbit.
The story is that the EMP weapons are "super miniaturized". You know, like little moped motors when even the U.S. needs a semi truck engine to get anything meaningful done. Yep.
If North Korea launched an EMP weapon, regardless of what technology was used it might show up as a single static tick on an AM radio. Size does matter, the only thing significant about what North Korea did was that the satellites worked as intended, which means they could relay communications if you would want them to, and would also probably be able to support a nice Nikon consumer level super zoom camera that would probably see an aircraft carrier from orbit. It also obviously means that North Korea is not an incompetent nation.
EMP threat? A joke.