I understand. But EMP WEAPONS have been underdevelopment for a long time. The effect of an expanding and contracting magnetic field is to induce current in ferrous materials. In small electronics like microcircuitry, it doesn't take much to physically melt the target, much like the old fashioned fuses in your grandmother's basement "overloaded and melted. Only difference is instead of coming from a wire to that fuse, the current is induced by EMP. It works just like a generator, except that in a generator, metal is moved through a magnetic field. With EMP the metal is stationary and the field is moving... expanding and contracting.
The US started working on CHAMP years ago. By 2012 there was a prototype built by Boeing. Soon after, the program got highly classified and information dried up, although I have seen some reports on it as late as 2015. Originally a missile would carry the EMP generator which was programmable for the size of its "footprint". This footprint was reported to be adjustable from a city block size to a fan 40 kilometers deep with an arc of about 45 degrees. Supposedly, it can now be carried under the wing of an aircraft like a F-16, like any other weapon "pod".
EMP started out as a nuclear detonation byproduct We can now generate EMP in a way tailored to defeat our enemies.
Other nations are developing, or have developed similar weapons. The Israeli version is more of a precision weapon.
China has an EMP weapon too… from October 2021:
https://eurasiantimes.com/chinas-new-electromagnetic-missile-can-cripple-us-indian-econom/Israel has an EMP weapon called “SCORPIUS” (also from 2021):
https://nypost.com/2021/11/11/israel-has-new-scorpius-electromagnetic-defense-system/US EMP weapon “CHAMP”.. old article… American CHAMP got highly classified around 2015 and news articles dried up, but here’s an older one:
https://www.inquisitr.com/2122223/air-force-emp-weapon-confirmed-by-u-s-military-and-boeing/These weapons have application throughout the three dimensional modern battlefield. On the ground it can melt the circuitry of a tank's fre control computer, communications radios, field artillery gunnery computers (as well as electronic projectile fusing), vehicle computers and more. And aircraft? Almost everything would be unable to fly. (its not an accident that you will find a few old UH-1 "Huey" helicopters in the military. They predate modern computers and fly by wire"... EMP wouldn't disable them.)
Rockets are unguided (tink of a kid's "bottle rocket". They go where aimed. EMP weapons, for example, would have no effect on the "Katushka" rockets Hamas routinely fires at Israel. But MISSILES are guided in flight by computers. EMP weapons are the perfect Air defense weapons against the new "hypervelocity" missiles our enemies are fielding. You don't have to be precise like a gun. The EMP "fan generated by things like CHAMP create a large field. If the missile flies through it, its guidance will be disabled. If it were to carry a nuclear weapon, the complex electronics associated with detonating the nuke would be fried too. The perfect counter to hypervelocity missiles.
Air Defenders used to say "If it flies, it dies!". I am already hearing them say "If it flies, it fries!"
If the next war is big enough for an all-out effort, we will see a tremendous change in warfare across the board due to EMP weapons.