EMP weapon

Circuit-frying pulse device

An EMP weapon is a device that generates an electromagnetic pulse to disable or destroy electronic equipment.

The pulse overwhelms circuits, frying computers, vehicles, communications systems, and power grids.

EMP weapons range from small targeted devices to nuclear warheads detonated at high altitude, which could theoretically knock out electronics across an entire continent.

The novel imagined society after an EMP weapon sent America back to the pre-electric age.

Related

shielding · Faraday · fried · circuits · surge · power grid · military · blast · knockout · total blackout · disruption · solar flare · warfare · generator · microwave · apocalypse · doomsday · prepper

Opposites
damage mechanism

EMP weaponbullet

Fired metal projectile

missile · artillery shell · bomb · grenade · fragmentation bomb

target type

EMP weaponbiological weapon

Pathogen engineered for warfare

nerve agent · landmine · chemical weapon · neutron bomb · poison gas

visibility of effect

EMP weaponnapalm

Flammable gel for bombs

flamethrower · explosive · tracer round · firebomb

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Rated PG