http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/05/27/ ... se-weapon/



For the last few years, the creative minds of Hollywood had seemingly outpaced the reality of technological and scientific advances in the weapons field. But no longer. Stepping out of the realm of science fiction and into reality is the joint U.S. Air Force and Boeing electromagnetic pulse weapon, capable of targeting and destroying electrical systems without the collateral damage often associated with traditional firepower. As Don Cheadle noted in the ever-relevant Ocean's 11, this new weapon "is a bomb -- but without the bomb."

Known as the " CHAMP," or Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project, the American military project is an attempt to develop a device with all the power of a nuclear weapon but without the death and destruction to people and infrastructure that such a weapon causes. Theoretically, the new missile system would pinpoint buildings and knock out their electrical grids, plunging the target into darkness and general disconnectedness.

The project has been in the works for a few years now, and has met with significant success in preliminary trials. In 2012, it was reported that a CHAMP mission in Utah managed to hit and subsequently disable seven separate targets in one mission, demonstrating its accuracy and precision. Indeed, it is this capacity to target individual buildings and not cities at large that makes the new weapon so effective, as it would allow military members to cut off electricity supplies to enemy parties while keeping civilians out of the melee.

According to Air Force Research Laboratory commander Major General Tom Masiello, CHAMP is "an operational system already in our tactical air force." While it appears that the Laboratory has only commissioned five such devices with Boeing, with the Air Force's recent confirmation of the weapon's existence, there may be more in the works in the future.

Military forces have been actively developing next-generation weapons that take warfare well beyond the guns and rockets that populate modern arsenals. Lasers have been a key area of advancement: Lockheed Martin test fired a laser weapon in March that took out a truck engine from a mile away, while the Navy deployed a Laser Weapon System (LaWS for short) on a vessel in the Persian Gulf in December.

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The laser was developed by Val Kilmer in the 80's.

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Didnt "Someone" send an EMP burst into North Korea????

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Is there any doubt this will be used on US citizens?

There isn't the great moral dilemma if no lives are lost.

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there have been reports that russian fighter jets have been crippling our destroyers we have based in the Mediterranean. the jets would fly over, and the destroyers would lose all power and have to be towed back for service.

this technology isnt new. i would imagine the US claims of 'accuracy' is though. the russians likely just using a more traditional bomb pattern that blanks everything in a certain radius. but being able to pinpoint enemy targets while leaving friendlies online would be a huge advantage.

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So in addition to keeping large swaths of the globe firmly bombed into the stone age we'll now be able to turn once developed countries into destitute pre-industrial horror-shows. This is probably a good long-term strategy because we will eventually run out of poor people to slaughter.

We all know the American public wont bite on a war against a developed country. One, its a real fight and two, THEY WORKED HARD FOR ALL THAT STUFF. This thing is the perfect weapon to make them appear poor & lazy plus make them totally defenseless.

What developed country gets the first EMP treatment? Could it be Canada?