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When I was in the RAAF during the Vietnam years, a Russian MIG was dissected to see what made it tick. Everyone was amused that the MIG had WW2 era valves as the electronics, whereas the US had state of the art transistors and integrated circuits.
Then the penny dropped, what if the Russians were developing Electromagnet Pulse technology. The US planes with their transistors running off 5V power would be fried by an EMP, but the MIG's with valves operating off 300V would be immune.
As history shows EMP was never developed as a mainstream weapon.
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