IG-88E wrote:
1: since when do protorps emit an EMP?
2: because we've never seen one used.
Proton torpedoes use nuclear warheads. Set one of those off in space and you get a big EMP pulse.
I don't think they're nuclear weapons. They appear to use some other version of high-explosives to create a 250-750 MT (upper limit), directed blast. That's pretty tough with a nuclear payload.
They have been repeatedly identified as shaped charge nuclear weapons in the EU. Building a 750-megaton nuclear warhead s no big deal. The US could do it with ease. Heck the Russians designed and built their 100-megaton super bomb in a matter of weeks.
Building one the size of a basketball would be slightly harder.
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Sea Skimmer wrote:Proton torpedoes use nuclear warheads. Set one of those off in space and you get a big EMP pulse.
No, they are not nuclear, they are some weird kind of proton-scattering warheads.
Multiple EU sources disagree with that.
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Sea Skimmer wrote:Multiple EU sources disagree with that.
These are?
Personally I like the proton-scattering thing, removes all these bullshit debates about proton yields, shield vulnerabilities and all that crap.
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Sea Skimmer wrote:Proton torpedoes use nuclear warheads. Set one of those off in space and you get a big EMP pulse.
No, they are not nuclear, they are some weird kind of proton-scattering warheads.
Multiple EU sources disagree with that.
What sources? What do they say? Many of them claim that there are "thermonuclear explosions" in space around very large ships, but I don't think they are ever clear on what is causing such explosions.
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EU stupidity and inconsistency. Anyways the protons would still fuck up electronics, wouldn't they?
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Sea Skimmer wrote:Multiple EU sources disagree with that.
These are?
Personally I like the proton-scattering thing, removes all these bullshit debates about proton yields, shield vulnerabilities and all that crap.
Page 18 of SWICS for starters.
"Proton torpedoes such as the MG-7-A's carried by the X-wing are extremely dangerous focused nuclear explosions."
The proton scattering information comes for where exactly?
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Something else, ATOCICS credits the LAAT with among other possible missile loadouts "electromagnetic pulse effects"
If such was effective against the driod army then I would expect them to use those against at least the rear driod ranks rather then the explosive missile they where firing.
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Just a point, don't you require the nuclear detonation to be in an atmosphere to produce a good EMP? Interactions with Earth's magnetic field and atoms in the atmosphere or something like that.
Neko_Oni wrote:Just a point, don't you require the nuclear detonation to be in an atmosphere to produce a good EMP? Interactions with Earth's magnetic field and atoms in the atmosphere or something like that.
Thats one way to produce a EMP blast, but there are other methods.
