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by sebastianavina 2560 days ago
unless the shield IS the antenna
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Help me understand how this makes sense, the antenna on most modern radios is directly connected to a front end amplifier, usually an extremely sensitive MOSFET circuit. The reason a Gaussian surface can block EMP from a circuit is because there’s no conductive pathway into the part you don’t want an EMP. When the shield is the antenna then the only part that can be hit by the EMP is one of the most fragile and sensitive ones.

I guess the idea is that once the drone reaches the enemy you can use an IMU for station keeping and expect GPS to get destroyed?