EMP bomb.....would it stop wars faster?

With all the technology used to fight wars, would an EMP bomb stop wars faster?

  • Yes

    Votes: 15 50.0%

  • No

    Votes: 15 50.0%
  • Total voters
    30
dream431ca

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I gotta question. With all this new techology and computers and things that are now used to fight wars, wouldn't an EMP bomb (Electromagnetic pulse) put a stop to the war much faster? Now with UAV's in full development and use, it would be a very handy tool. What do you think? Or is there else in mind?

EDIT: DAMN. forgot the "other" option in the poll.
 
No! We can kill with swords and knives better than our ancestors did! Muahahaha!

Hmm. I dunno, honestly.
 
LOL. We have all this ****ing technology in America. Technology like you describe. It is absolutely useless against conventional weapons like the weapons most of the other countries in the world use. LOL I don't know, at least against most countries and roadside bombs, it's not going to do anything but add to our debt. It's an awesome technology, I'm just saying. .. nevemind. Yes It could end wars fast, but nothing is faster than www.nukeitfromorbit.com

The idea behind this weapon is not in killling, its about not killing, it disables all electronics within the target area, effectively leaving the enemy with no offensive weapons, excluding conventional projectile and explosive weapons.

EMP = Awesome.
 
VirusType2 said:
LOL. We have all this ****ing technology in America. Technology like you describe. It is abso-****ing-lutely (absolutely) useless against conventional weapons like the weapons most of the other countries in the world use. LOL I don't know, at least against Iraq and roadside bombs, it's not going to do anything but add to our debt. It's an awesome technology, I'm just saying. .. nevemind.
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I'm talking about an EMP against YOUR country, and Britian. That would stop your army pretty quick.
 
dream431ca said:
I'm talking about an EMP against YOUR country, and Britian. That would stop your army pretty quick.
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Soon we'll be using a different source than electricity to power our systems! Plasma fusion!
 
Raziaar said:
Soon we'll be using a different source than electricity to power our systems! Plasma fusion!
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Canadians already use that...actually most of our military ground units are powered by atomic batteries.
 
Drop as many bombs as you want...wont stop people from shooting eachother. Will just make it harder to do and cause more friendly fire and things would take a lot longer and be a whole lot more dangerous. Wouldn't stop wars, just make them more bloody.
 
dream431ca said:
I'm talking about an EMP against YOUR country, and Britian. That would stop your army pretty quick.
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so so.. so just what are you saying?

Hmm I bet If I take a huge dump in a Canadian toilet, it would clog it up pretty quick. But why the **** would I do that? Like assuming that I even had to shit really bad and could pull off anything on that "large of a scale". And would my one single "bomb" change anything? Would that effectively ruin your national plumbing system?

How about 100 pissed off americans come and clog up all your toilets! mauahah Wow I have really lost sight of the topic here

*me eats chocolate eclair*
 
VirusType2 said:
so so.. so just what are you saying?

Hmm I bet If I take a huge dump in a Canadian toilet, it would clog it up pretty quick. But why the **** would I do that? Like assuming that I even had to shit really bad and could pull off anything on that "large of a scale". And would my one single "bomb" change anything? Would that effectively ruin your national plumbing system?

How about 100 pissed off americans come and clog up all your toilets! mauahah Wow I have really lost sight of the topic here

*me eats chocolate eclair*
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Troll

6char.
 
dream431ca said:
Troll

6char.
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Take that back.

You can't possibly be taking me serious. :angry: I certainly didn't think you were serious when you proposed that you would attack my country.

In an off-topic thread? I didn't think anything here was serious =/
 
VirusType2 said:
Take that back.

You can't possibly be taking me serious. :angry: I certainly didn't think you were serious when you proposed that you would attack my country. In an off-topic thread?
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What are you talking about?? Attack your country?? Read the first post and you'll find out it's a question. I'll ask again: Would an EMP stop a war faster or not? The US does have the most technologically advanced military in the world (second to Britian), so what do you think I was talking about? Even the afganistans have technology like cars, and most of the bombs they set off are remotely detonated from a electrical charge. So I think an EMP would help.
 
How much do you think an EMP bomb would cost? How much do you think the bomb triggers would cost?

Its simply unreasonable.
 
dream431ca said:
What are you talking about?? Attack your country??
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OK below I understood you to have said that you are toying with the fact that you might want to bomb the US and UK with EMP bombs to stop our armies .. I guessed from our foreign policy and our fight with Iraq.

I thought you were saying , "screw you guys, we might want to take you out!"

I'm talking about an EMP against YOUR country, and Britain. That would stop your army pretty quick.
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I think I have misunderstood what you were saying. You meant ,"if the weapon was used against your country, would EMP be effective"

I'm sorry. EMP is an awesome weapon that can disable electronics within a large area without even killing people. I don't envision anyone but allies using such "nice" technology, so I don't worry about an attack by it.

I'm not extremely informed on this weapon, but I don't think it's used to stop car bombs. It's used in a one time super-pulse that knocks out surveillance, communications, and missile launch systems.

*I'm using what I learned about 10 years ago. Things may have changed since then.*


Sorry, I've been awake for like 55 hours and can't sleep. Its easy to understand how I could misunderstand ;)

*sips coke*
 
VirusType2 said:
OK here you say that you are toying with the fact that you might want to bomb the US and UK with EMP bombs to stop our armies .. I guess from our foreign policy and our fight with Iraq.

I thought you were saying , "screw you guys, we might want to take you out!"
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If I was going to say "Screw you guys, we might want to take you out", I would have actually typed "Screw you guys, we might want to take you out!" in my original post. You seem to assume a lot.


VirusType2 said:
I think I have misunderstood what you were saying. You meant ,"if the weapon was used against your country, would EMP be effective"

I'm sorry. EMP is an awesome weapon that can disable electronics within a large area without even killing people. I don't envision anyone but allies using such "nice" technology, so I don't worry about an attack by it.


Sorry, I've been awake for like 55 hours and can't sleep. Its easy to understand how I could misunderstand ;)

*sips coke*
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Well, at least you finally understand, oh and drink coffee, it's more potent than coke.
 
Glirk Dient said:
How much do you think an EMP bomb would cost? How much do you think the bomb triggers would cost?

Its simply unreasonable.
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99.95, and 5.99 a piece respectively.
 
dream431ca said:
If I was going to say "Screw you guys, we might want to take you out", I would have actually typed "Screw you guys, we might want to take you out!" in my original post. You seem to assume a lot.

Well, at least you finally understand.
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I understand becuase you said, "what are you talking about???" So I re-read what you said and figured out what the hell was going on. :laugh:

Well, I won't deny that I assume a lot, but when someone says:
I'm talking about an EMP against YOUR country, and Britian. That would stop your army pretty quick.
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it sounds like a threat to me.

I read it as,
im talking about using EMP on YOUR country, and Britian. That would stop your army pretty quick!
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I wasn't assuming anything, you said you were talking about attacking us.

I was like ok., why would you want to do that?


But it was just missing a word in there that would have cleared it up. You could have said,
I'm talking about another country using an EMP against your country, and Britian. That would stop your army pretty quick.
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Anyhow, choice of words could have been better, but these things happen sometimes. NP.

I am a nice guy!!!!!!!!!!!1 :stare:
 
VirusType2 said:
it sounds like a threat to me.
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You give me way to much credit. And you take things on a forum a little to seriously. Maybe if this was the Taliban forums, then you should be worried. But on a forum that calls itself halflife2.net.......I hope you see the difference.
 
dream431ca said:
You give me way to much credit. And you take things on a forum a little to seriously. Maybe if this was the Taliban forums, then you should be worried. But on a forum that calls itself halflife2.net.......I hope you see the difference.
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OK I can see there is still some misunderstandings going on.

I didn't take it serious - as if you were in power and have a finger on the button and you are a threat, I took it serious as in, "Maybe if I did have my 'finger on the button', we would attack you."

So I was thinking "hmmm Dream431ca doesn't like america? Doesn't like UK? Thats not a nice thing to say, talking about attacking our country " I was quite puzzled, and I said, "so so what are you saying?" Becuase I didn't understand why you wouldn't like us.

I don't see how me talking about taking a poop was taking it too serious. :laugh: The reason I said that is becuase I thought it was about an equally good idea. (saying it would be completely ineffective in the large scheme of things)

I only took it serious when you called me a troll - since that is a bannable offense and I like you guys or I wouldn't come here. I showed an emoticon like this one :mad: to show my emotion as getting angry at being called a troll.

Before that point I was laughing, confused, and in the dark a bit about your intentions and your sentiments (feelings) towards US and UK.


I hope that clears it up, I better get some sleep. PEACE :imu:
 
Wars should drag on for long amounts of time and shouldn't be ended quickly. Maybe then our governments will realize that we shouldn't be fighting them and that we have no right to invade other countries.
 
Nat Turner said:
Wars should drag on for long amounts of time and shouldn't be ended quickly. Maybe then our governments will realize that we shouldn't be fighting them and that we have no right to invade other countries.
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War is human nature, and governments will probably never see that. That's what the UN is for, but the UN is completely useless right now.
 
dream431ca said:
War is human nature, and governments will probably never see that. That's what the UN is for, but the UN is completely useless right now.
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Rape is human nature too, but should you do it?
 
Nat Turner said:
Rape is human nature too, but should you do it?
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yes...
just kidding!

To say there should never be war is dumb. What about WW2? The germans invaded and what if all the other countries in the world thought war was bad and should never happen? Well germany will walk all over the world and have no resistance. Looks like that wouldn't have worked!
 
Ok, lets say that the EMP knocks out EVERYTHING, including radio, tanks, missles, guidance systems.... ect.


Now, let us ALSO assume that the anti-EMP shielding doesn't exist. Which it does.


Great. Uber-Infantry warfare, WW1 style!


also, war, however horrible and costly it may be, is needed. Especially against commies, terrorists, religious fundamentalists, gays (j/k :p), ect..
 
hmm:
Tanks - gone
Air Craft (heli and jets) - gone
radios - useless
GPS-useless
Troop vehicles - some gone
Electricity & phone - gone

You'd be fighting blind...
 
Let us not forget that there are lots of spare parts for radios.


And perhaps everything else.
 
yes, but how do we know the spare parts wouldn't be affected
 
Glirk Dient said:
How much do you think an EMP bomb would cost? How much do you think the bomb triggers would cost?

Its simply unreasonable.
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It costs as much as one nuke exploded in the ionosphere.
 
the problem is that noone has come up with a way to stop an AK-47. you can use all the EMP you like, there will still be people with assault rifles, RPGs, etc.

Also, most western armed forces have some kind of EMP sheilding on thier equipment, and plenty of spare parts for they bits they dont have it for. If you EMPed an American or British tank battalion they'd probubly have their stuff up and running again in a few days.

And even with their heavy weapons down all their machine guns and the like still work, and if you're forces are in the same area then thats all they'd have too.

EMP wouldnt stop a war, but it could slow it down for a while.

By far the best use of an EMP system is to use it in a golden eye eqse plot to steal a nations money and then remove any trace of the crime. *leans back in chair an laughs manically*
 
Nat Turner said:
Wars should drag on for long amounts of time and shouldn't be ended quickly. Maybe then our governments will realize that we shouldn't be fighting them and that we have no right to invade other countries.
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That's what happened with WW2. But after a couple of generations, it's remarkable how people forget the lessons learnt.
 
kirovman said:
That's what happened with WW2. But after a couple of generations, it's remarkable how people forget the lessons learnt.
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What lessons? That war really helps an economic crises when you fight it overseas and win? :p
 
I think a more important thing was dismantling the hegemony of certain nations over others, learning that nationalism and imperialism are pretty bad things, especially in the wrong hands ... and the emergence of civil rights in many countires.
 
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