Thread: EMP based anti-virus weapons

DED wrote about NNEMP weapons. I'm also looking for an EMP based anti-robot weapon.
First, would fiber-optic cable improve the magnetic field problons with the wire?
If the power must be included in the weapon, instead of a spear approch that is connected to the power pack by wire.


Would a "whole unit" weapon fit into say a 40 mm grenade-sized projectile be possible? Here I'm thinking "mega-tazer".
I picture the grenade being carried inert and shortly before firing the backpack charges the grenade. Carried inert would be for safety reasions. Last thing I would want to do is, while diving for cover to land on a live tazer round.
These grenade rounds would I believe be reuseanle, if recovered.


I am also looking into using high-pulse maser weapon to "cook" the robot's electronics. This is still in the scrach my head and think about it stage. If someone wants to try it out let me know how it works out, and if it works at all.


If RL would give me a break, I've been thinking about a Mason Rifle. Even if the blast was only the size of a large firecracker, you are almost sure to hit something vital in the close confines of a robot.


An interesting subject. Currently our charaters use the "old" approch, captured 14.5 mm crunch gun with TL-11 DS rounds. Oh-my aching back!!!
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On 25 Aug 2016 at 5:16, [Tr wrote:

> DED wrote about NNEMP weapons.   I'm also looking for an EMP based
> anti-robot weapon.  First, would fiber-optic cable improve the
> magnetic field problons with the wire?

How are you going to send electricity over a fiber optic cable?

> Would a "whole unit" weapon fit into say a 40 mm grenade-sized
> projectile be possible?  Here I'm thinking "mega-tazer". I picture
> the grenade being carried inert and shortly before firing the backpack
> charges the grenade.  Carried inert would be for safety reasions. 
> Last thing I would want to do is, while diving for cover to land on a
> live tazer round. These grenade rounds would I believe be reuseanle,
> if recovered.

A mega tazer might be reusable. An EMP round/bomb is *not* reusable,
because they use an explosive charge to implose the coil assembly as
it hits peak current. So the coil assembly is turned into a very
small lump of metal and whatever.

Of course, you've got the problem of current the voltage *into* the
target, rather than yous arcing across the surface.

Tazers work on people because human flesh conducts electricity. They
have those spikes to pentrate clothing.

If they can't get close enough to skin, they won't zap you.

A robot is either going to have a reasonably tough *non-conductive*
skin (plastics or the like), or a tough *conductive* skin (aka
metal).

With the non-conductive skin, the voltage can't get in.

Whith the conductive skin, it'll just short the taser. Becuase the
internal circuitry will (of necessity) be insulated from the metal
housing.

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