On 09/06/2014 16:52, fred wrote:
In article , tony sayer
writes

And valves were much better at standing up to the electromagnetic pulse
released by a nuclear explosion...

Thats why the soviets used then in their aircraft!..

I think that's mainly a puff of chaff, aircraft don't need to be
particularly rad hard as they get blown over and wiped by blast long
before the electronics pop.

Pretty much the same applies in flight.


Blast radius a few miles..
EMP a few hundreds/thousands miles.