Some Of The Best EMP-Hardened Cases

International condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has shone a spotlight on the potential impacts of warfare by electromagnetic pulse (EMP). Cyber weapons such as this are thoroughly indiscriminate in their targeting of both civilian and military infrastructure.

In a world where even your personal electronic gadgets are at risk – together with the lifelines they represent – preppers are turning to special protective equipment capable of sheltering personal devices behind EMP-hardened cases.

Let’s take a closer look at the dangers – and your response to them.

The electromagnetic pulse

In a posting on the 30^th of March 2022, security specialists Lawfire explained that Russia has developed weapons that can cripple all ordinary electronic cyber activity through a nuclear or non-nuclear detonation.

It describes a worst-case scenario in which such weapons could knock out the entire national electric grid of a country, together with all its critical infrastructures for a year or more – resulting in the deaths of up to 90% of the population through starvation and the collapse of civil society. In short, it’s pretty serious business!

As in so many of the situations we describe here at Prepper Weekly, though it’s not so much the Armageddon of a worst-case scenario, perhaps, as your own, personal response to the fallout you and your nearest and dearest might suffer if an EMP-enabled bomb went off.

EMP-hardened cases

Protection of your electronic devices will become the name of the game. If there is a threat to them being blocked or crippled by electromagnetic pulses and shockwaves, the thing to do is find a secure curtain for those devices to hide behind.

Those secure curtains exist in the shape of specially-made cases, pouches, or wallets that are “EMP-hardened”:

Faraday bags

• made in the United States by Faraday Defense, these pouches come in 15 assorted sizes;

• each pouch or wallet incorporates a 5-ply military specification material that shields the contents from those harmful EMPs and comes with two further protective layers providing metal and moisture barriers – all closed with a heavy-duty Ziplock;

• you can create extra security for your phone, hard-drive, tablet, radio, or laptop by “nesting” one bag inside another to double the protection;

Non-window Faraday Bag

• the Mission Darkness Non-window Faraday Bag is a larger version adopting similar principles for protection devices such as laptops and tablets – specifically marketed by its manufacturers to law enforcement and the military;

• the “ballistic nylon” from which it is made claims to protect contents not only from EMPs but also CMEs (the coronal mass ejections that erupt as solar flares from the sun on a fairly regular basis);

Faraday Cage

• Faraday Defense also makes a Faraday Cage, made from black canvas and designed to protect against and block hostile signals from mobile phones, radio-frequency identification (RFID), GPS, WiFi, and digital key fobs;

• the pouches are big enough to take a small laptop, mobile phone, external hard drive, tablet – and even your passport and wallet;

TitanRF Faraday Fabric

• a further offering from Mission Dark is the TitanRF Faraday Fabric bag, made from a “military grade conductive material”;

• the material incorporates high-shielding nickel and copper composition blocks and you cut and fashion the fabric to suit the size you want.

From any unexpected – and totally unseen – attack or fallout from an EMP-enabled explosion, you can protect vital electronic gadgets that might prove essential to your survival. Simply keep a spare phone, radio, or tablet in one of these EMP-hardened cases.