jlg@lanl.ARPA (01/22/85)
> The airforce may test for EMP, but I don't think that they can mimic > the incredible potentials that would exist from and actual EMP, so the > testing can't make it perfect or guarentee it, but just give an accurate > probability of survival/failure. The Airforce can't mimic EMP potentials (they try real hard, you should see some of the capacitors), but someone can - mother nature. A lightning strike generates potentials which in some cases can be bigger the the expected EMP potentials on an object as small as a plane. Unfortunately, lightning is unpredictable so it's hard to get good data from such strikes. People have tried though. J. Giles