Terrorists, on the other hand, are gaining the means to produce smaller EMP effects, and a nuclear bomb is not the only option to do so.
According to a Jerusalem Post description of an Al-Jarida article, “Iran has raced to arm Hezbollah with electromagnetic bombs that may paralyze communications and disrupt radars as the likelihood of the border standoff with Israel escalating into a full-scale war looms.”
Real and potential enemies outnumber the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) by a significant margin. They not only face encirclement but also have three fronts to safeguard. Even worse, Israel possesses very little strategic depth. There’s hardly anywhere to hide and reorganize. The IDF maintains significant qualitative and intelligence advantages over Israel’s enemies, which helps it keep Israel as secure as possible despite these unavoidable strategic disadvantages.
In layman’s terms, that indicates that one IDF soldier is worth five Arab troops or terrorists because of their training, ideology, and equipment. The Israeli intelligence community’s expertise is likely to double to ten to one. Though each soldier or airman in the IDF still has their kryptonite, that doesn’t exactly make them Superman.
What would happen if the IDF’s electronics, which include the radars that track enemy rockets, the Iron Dome batteries that shot them down, and the F-16 and F-35 aircraft that deliver retaliation, were to abruptly stop working for an hour, a day, or a week?
On October 7, we witnessed what transpired when Israelis relaxed their security measures in the Gaza Strip. There have been 1,200 civilian deaths and rapes, along with 250 kidnappings, sparking a conflict that is still going on today.
The CEO of Israeli defense firm Asgard Systems, Rotem Mey-Tal, discussed potential EMP bomb attacks by Hezbollah in an interview with JPost.
“I believe the model will likely resemble a low-flying UAV, but the mechanics remain the same regardless of how they choose to utilize this capability.” Similar to the Iranian-Houthi attack on the upgraded Samad 3 UAV last weekend near the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, the front of the UAV could be equipped with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) activation mechanism. This mechanism would activate during flight and release an EMP upon contact with a target.
Mey-Tal surmised that “bases, key infrastructure, desalination systems, and the Israeli electrical grid” would be likely targets. That should unnerve both you and Israel.
Should Hezbollah succeed in using EMP weapons against Israel next week or next year, that will be the week or the next year that another terrorist group will use them against the United States as well.
It’s reasonable to assume that many more people would have perished in New York City from a wave of EMP drone strikes than did so from the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. That’s why I applaud and clap whenever I learn that Israel has eliminated another Hamas unit or assassinated a commander of Hezbollah. Every terrorist they eliminate over there reduces the likelihood of an attack on us here.
