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Originally Posted by Matt Wiser
Regarding military vehicles and EMP: there's an EMP simulator at Kirtland AFB in New Mexico that I remember seeing pictures of planes parked under it for tests, to see how well shielded they were from EMP. Every U.S. military plane (and presumably those from NATO allies) was tested there in the 1980s, I do believe. They also tested Army and Marine equipment, and the Navy has (or had) a barge with a similar piece of equipment for testing ships' electronics as part of their acceptance trials. Any military vehicle (air, land, or sea) in the 1970s and '80s had to be designed for a nuclear environment, and EMP testing was part of the test phase. Presumably that test facility is still going today.
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IIRC History has a show where they covered this.