What these articles always leave out is what are the US capabilities in this area? Can we destroy the Russian and Chinese power grids by the same methods? Snowden showed that yes, the NSA and other US agencies have pretty much gotten in to everything and the cyber warfare is likely in place. What are our EMP capabilities both nuclear and non-nuclear? Is this a case of something new? The adversaries have caught up? Or someone just wants some more funding?
ben_w|1 year ago
On that basis, yes, you could also take out the Russian or Chinese grids this way.
North Korea could also perform such an attack.
I assume the UK can too; although I don't know the maximum altitude of a Trident SLBM, the maximum range suggests it could well be great enough for this mode of attack.
Non-nuclear EMPs do exist, but you should probably ignore them at this point unless you're actively working in that field, given all the easier solutions in EW including simple jamming.