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It's time for electronic weaponry to hit mass production. EMP gun tech can be refined and perfected outside of official labs these days.
I mean, you can build one yourself, but a real damaging version would require a lot of power.
Unfortunately due to the inverse square law, they don't have a very long range.
I guess a phased array emp would be the best way to do it.
Not easily done with the DIY hacky way of doing it with a coil and teaser generator, but I'm sure with some decent mosfets and transformers, it should be possible.
would it not be enabled by putting it on the end of a long stick?
At that point, just have spray paint on a stick. Or better, just a long paint roller.
Not all surveilance is optical. It might just be listening for your BLE chirps or other 2.4ghz traffic from your devices