Shadow Reaper
Space Marshal
I'm sorry but someone has misled you. Soviet fighters through the 70's and 80's had some E1 EMP protection since they were still using vacuum tubes, but they were not using the tubes because of the possibility of EMP. They used them because their IC technology had very poor quality control through those years and they had no choice. As consequence, Soviet avionics were more than a full generation behind their western counterparts, and this gap still exists today.
Tanks do not include special EMP hardening at all. They never have. Their metallic armor dissipates E1, E2 and E3 components of the EMP, but that is function of the volume of the armor, not some special attempt to stop an EMP.
EMP hardening has never been practical because the E1 wave is almost impossible to stop, as it is X-Ray; and permanently destroys electronics that are not grounded. X-Ray can only be stopped by sheer mass, as we do with lead vests in X-Ray rooms. Imagine flying a plane or a tank filled with lead. Even tanks would not be able to move.
One expects the game is emulating E2 and E3 spikes which should be easier to stop, but you should not expect that as a standard option like a cigar lighter. I think EMP Generators are going to be very hard to get hold of and very hard to stop, but that does not simply hand a ship over to marauders. Fighting defensively on your own ship is supposed to have benefits that are hard to overcome.
If you're interested in the real life applications of all this, see what Yosemite Space is doing with their new Gumstix testing on ISS. Pretty cool stuff they've got there. Beating an EMP and beating space radiation are petty similar save the intensity of the events. Hence they look hard at how to stop radiation from corrupting data and programs rather than how to stop it interfering at all, which they cannot do on such small spacecraft.
http://yosemitespace.com/
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