CD82
Well-Known Member
Also, the EM energy isn't going to just stop when it hits the car. The Air Force can use this because they'd be shooting it down at a target and the energy would go on to be absorbed into the ground. From a ground-level deployment, it's going to hit the target and shut down other cars on the other side of it with fatal consequences for the electronics - and possibly the innocent occupants.
Plus, unless he's figured out some way to make that thing fire like a laser, he's going to get a shotgun like spread of energy out the end of that waveguide assembly - which means other cars to the sides of the target are going to get hit. This is before you realize that such a weapon will also wipe laptop and handheld computers and not incidentally possibly kill people with implanted medical electronics and appliances like, oh, pacemakers, defibrillators and insulin pumps.
I thought exactly the same thing! If he's going to kill the electronics of a car with an electromagnetic pulse, what's it going to do to other electronic devices? And how was that camera still working? Either they filmed from a really long distance, or the pulse was incredibly focused. Also, good luck on making it smaller.