Daily Mail Claims U.S. Has Combat Ready EMP Cruise Missiles

May 17th, 2019

Flashback 2012: CHAMP – Lights Out

Via: Daily Mail:

The U.S. Air Force has deployed at least 20 missiles that could zap the military electronics of North Korea or Iran with high-power microwaves, rendering their military capabilities virtually useless without causing any fatalities, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.

Known as the Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP), the missiles were built by Boeing’s Phantom Works for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and tested successfully in 2012. They have not been operation until now.

The microwave weapons are fitted into an air-launched cruise missile and delivered from B-52 bombers. With a range of 700 miles, they can fly into enemy airspace at low altitude and emit sharp pulses of high power microwave (HPM) energy that fry computer chips, disabling any electronic devices targeted by the missiles with causing any collateral damage.

Mary Lou Robinson, the chief of the High Power Microwave Division of the Air Force Research Lab at Kirtland Air Force Base, has confirmed to DailyMail.com that the missiles are now operational and ready to take out any target.

The missile is equipped with an electromagnetic pulse cannon. This uses a super-powerful microwave oven to generate a concentrated beam of energy. The energy causes voltage surges in electronic equipment, rendering them useless before surge protectors have the chance to react

The project has been advancing secretly ever since the Air Force successfully tested a missile equipped with HPM in 2012.

In the test, the CHAMP missile flew over a two-story building on the Utah Test and Firing Range.

The building in the west Utah desert was crammed with computers and security and surveillance systems. The microwaves took down the compound’s entire spectrum of electronic systems, including video cameras set up to film the test, without damaging anything else.

‘We hit every target we wanted to,’ Boeing’s CHAMP Program Manager Keith Colman said in a company press release. ‘Today we made science fiction into science fact.’

One Response to “Daily Mail Claims U.S. Has Combat Ready EMP Cruise Missiles”

  1. rotger says:

    “Today we made science fiction into science fact.”
    They make it sound like it’s a new thing?

    They have been around for decades. The secret for EMP weapon is the little known Sakarov generator:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator
    I will quote the most important part: “An EPFCG package that could be easily carried by a person can produce pulses in the millions of amperes and tens of terawatts”

    And: “This technique has been used to create the most intense manmade magnetic fields on Earth; fields up to about 1000 teslas (about 1000 times the strength of a typical permanent magnet) can be created for a few microseconds.”

    Said otherwise, it is an EMP generator. Size of the explosive can vary from extremly weak up to an atomic bomb.

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