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[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 25 points 1 month ago (16 children)

It's time for electronic weaponry to hit mass production. EMP gun tech can be refined and perfected outside of official labs these days.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wonder how well these spy devices would hold up if someone connected a horn antenna to an industrial magnetron and blasted them with 10-20 kW of RF?

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 12 points 1 month ago

Chris Voute describes that in his EMP weapons series

magnetron horn antenna microwave cannon

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

You should try, for science!

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