User blog comment:Leolab/The Blog that Won't Die/@comment-1907699-20100527204347

the missile would be different from the bomb though. the tech would be more advanced, plus we have to put in to account that Price detonated it at a precise time when it would be in the perfect place to create the EMP.

the bomb explosion would be completely different because of the different circumstances.

it is the shock wave because a EMP would have stopped from working at all, all the dashboard lights and other electric would go off. But Capelli tells Hale to pull up, if it was all off he wouldn't, and, i think, the cabin was lighted so there must be some light source from inside.

If the plan was to EMP the chimera Blake would have said that, however all the evidence we got from Blake and cinematics points towards just blowing up the ships.

I know very little on the subject on EMPs and the like and it may well have created an EMP.