EMP Grenade

[dayan]

english.pravda.ru/news/science/23-04-2015/130352-energy-0/

"The Army is currently testing the Pulsar against an assortment of devices, a 555 timer, a bipolar junction transistor and a yellow light emitting diode, or LED, combined into a single target. "All these things pretty much generalize all the common electronics you'll find in a circuit board," Burke said."What we're going to do is fire at it. If the LED light stops blinking, it was defeated andif smoke comes up, it was destroyed."

Don't know if this is bunk or not given the pissing contest the US and Russia are in right now, but I can see something like this being a thing if theres a Cyberknights 2. Imagine losing cyberware bonuses or the use of drones for the duration of combat.

[ntsheep]

I've heard they have been trying to design weapons like this for years ever since they found out a side effect of a nuclear bomb blast is an EMP pulse that knocks out electronics. They always say these won't be used on people but does anyone remember the film Eraser? An EMP directed at someone with a pace maker would die. In the film, the weapons would kill someone with out one because of the sudden electric shock.

[dayan]

Something as localized as this I feel is more useful as an electronic version of a bomb disruptor, or in vehicle stopping and anti materiel activities. Jammers can block cell and other radio/microwave signals but ignore electro-optical signals and lasers as a remote trigger. I think old fashioned wind up clocks are hard to find these days too.