Stefan Viljoen wrote:

> Read a while ago that the RAF had to pay compensation to almost a hundred
> car owners - one of their air-defense "steerable-array" radars went haywire
> and scanned over a road - they burned out almost every vehicle's ignition
> and fuel injection microprocessors with the radar beam!
> 
> The point being an old, mechanical vehicle ignition system (carburettors, a
> rotor and points) would have just driven on with no problems.
> 
> Viz a viz mechanical against electrical failures... 

It always amuses me how film writers seem to think that turning an 
electronic device off makes it immune to an EMP... I thought the idea 
was that an EMP will physically fry the thing like a microwave oven 
fries CDs. :-P

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