EMP: From a Warsclerotic reader wishing to remain anonymous.
JW,
Did not want to your post openly. I have agreed with your EMP attack scenerio for a long time. I have been trying to find the time to run it past Dr. Carlos Kopp with whom I have discussed airpower issues before, but my duties as a professor have increased as of late.
Take a look a this webpage http://www.ausairpower.net/dew-ebomb.html
I will try to email him this weekend about the feasibility of surgical EMP strikes. I know BeBe and Barak know they will have to do somethings since Obama and his ilk believe that a nuclear Iran will create a deterrent situation–can we say delusional.
I am unsure if Israel could deal with the fallout–no pun intended–from a full out EMP attack, and the chaos it would cause. On the other hand airdropped and Popeyes launched EMP bombs could take out the nuclear infrastructure and inflict enough damage to deter the Ayatollahs from a counter attack on Israel.
Taking out a couple of cities like Bander Abbas and Beusher as well as an oil producing area like Khoramanshahr would cause enough damage to make them think about retaliation especially if BeBetold them that the next cities to be hit are Mashar, Isfehan, Tabriz, Qom and Tehran in that order.
Limited strikes might give the Green movement the opportunity to get rid of the Ayatollahs which would bring sanity to Iran.
I guess my whole point is that an all out EMP attack would be like crossing the line the US did at Hiroshima. The USA could at that time–not sure if we could now–I am not sure Israel should cross roughly the same line today. For deterrent value it would be great but with the Islamists taking over in Egypt, Libya etc. it may be too much.
The Arabs want the Iranians taken down but if they are obliterated then the old “war on Islam” battle cry echos across the Middle East. Limited strikes will keep the Sunni’s on Israel’s side–did I just write that ??? Anyway–this is my line of thinking right now.
If I get time this weekend I will develop the surgical strike idea a bit more and see what Carlos thinks about it–it all revolves around the output of a 1000LBS size EMP bomb.
The absolute silence about EMP weapons almost makes me think that is what the IDF is up to.
I looked at the naval base at Beucher today on google maps. Something like four or five frigates and three subs were there.
One gps guided emp bomb could render all the combatants inoperable–now that is a weapon. The irony would be that Israel would be the one to keep the Straits open !!! A fat and happy al-Saud family might be the price Israel might have to pay for a successful SEMP strike.
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January 28, 2012 at 11:04 AM
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January 28, 2012 at 4:09 PM
Interesting, but what kind of radioactive fallout can we expect? Also, what are the ramifications if this radioactive ‘cloud’ drifts over friendly nations? And what about not-so-friendly nations? Finally, what about neutron bombs? Do they still exist and would their use be effective and/or supportive to EMP? Just asking, that’s all.
January 28, 2012 at 4:25 PM
Such a scenario combined with large scale uprisings inside Iran may have a realistic chance of working, however just launching such an attack would be viewed as an attack from the outside and will get most Iranians behind their government.
And unless, as Steve said, they use a neutron bomb then the radioactive fall out will be just as bad as the political and military one.
January 29, 2012 at 5:57 PM
EMP bombs can be made with conventional explosives thus no radiation.