Electromagnetic bombs

Electromagnetic bombs are Weapons of Electrical Mass Destruction with
applications across a broad spectrum of targets, spanning both the strategic and
tactical. As such their use offers a very high payoff in attacking the fundamental
information processing and communication facilities of a target system. The
massed application of these weapons will produce substantial paralysis in any
target system, thus providing a decisive advantage in the conduct of Electronic
Combat, Offensive Counter Air and Strategic Air Attack. Generators would be
useless, cars wouldn’t run, and there would be no chance of making a phone call.
In a matter of seconds, a big enough e-bomb could thrust an entire city back 200
years or cripple a military unit. The basic principle used in an e-bomb is
electromagnetic pulse effect
EMP effect can result in irreversible damage to a wide range of electrical and
electronic equipment, particularly computers and radio or radar etc. having military
importance. Commercial computer equipment is particularly vulnerable to EMP
effects.The technology base which may be applied to the design of electromagnetic
bombs is both diverse, and in many areas quite mature. Key technologies which are
extant in the area are explosively pumped Flux Compression Generators (FCG),
explosive or propellant driven Magneto-Hydrodynamic (MHD) generators and a
range of HPM devices, the foremost of which is the Virtual Cathode Oscillator or
Vircator.