CHAMP - ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE (EMP) WEAPON THAT CAN DESTROY ELECTRONICS OF AN ENTIRE CITY - PENTAGON CONFIRMS IT HAS TERRIFYING NEW TECHNOLOGY - Who will have it next? - Are you prepared?

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If the US has it, so can other countries. 
And if other countries have it, anyone can buy it, including jihadis.  Are you prepared?

The Pentagon’s Counter-Electronics High-Power Advanced Microwave Project (CHAMP)

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 

Named counter-electronics high-powered microwave advanced missile

Weapon destroys electronic systems without hurting people or buildings

Champ is now an 'operational system already in [the] tactical air force' 

Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range has been chosen as the delivery vehicle

However, experts fear that the project could create an arms race, with countries scrambling to build their own electromagnetic pulse weapons.

The Sun could also produce the same catastrophic electromagnetic pulse (EMP) effect on the electric grid if any of its frequent major flares is directed straight to Earth's northern hemisphere

Continue reading, including related articles on Electromagnetic Pulse EMP events (weapons and solar flares), and how to prepare for a moment when nothing works because  our technological world is so reliant on computers - including transportation.  Who is going to bring food to the cities?  The post apocalyptic world after an EMP attack.



For years, scientists have been attempting to turn fantasy into reality by working on a system known as Champ, or Counter-electronics High-powered microwave Advanced Missile Project

HOW DOES IT WORK? 

• 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 aim is to destroy an enemy's command, control, communication and computing, surveillance and intelligence capabilities without hurting people or infrastructure

From Ocean's Eleven to Star Trek, weapons that wipe out enemy electronics are a staple of science fiction films.

 

For years, scientists have been attempting to create such a weapon as part of Champ, or the Counter-electronics High-powered microwave Advanced Missile Project.

 

Now, the US Air Force claims it has advanced the technology, and says it can deploy it using the stealthy Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM).

 

According to Foxtrot Alpha, once integrated into JASSM, Champ will be a 'first day of war' standoff weapon.

 

Because it can be launched by both bombers and fighters, Lockheed's Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile, or JASSM, is an ideal platform for Champ. 

 

'The capability is real … and the technology can be available today,' said Major General Thomas Masiello, the Air Force Research Laboratory.  That's an operational system already in our tactical air force'

 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory maps the areas likely to be blacked out in the event of a high-altitude nuclear EMP attack on the US 

In 2012, aircraft manufacturer Boeing successfully tested the weapon on a one-hour flight during which it knocked out the computers of an entire military compound.

 

During Boeing's experiment, the missile flew low over the Utah Test and Training Range, discharging electromagnetic pulses on to seven targets, permanently shutting down their electronics.

 

Boeing said that the test was so successful even the camera recording it was disabled. 

 

Although the project is shrouded in secrecy, experts believe the missile is equipped with an electromagnetic pulse cannon.

 

This uses a super-powerful microwave oven to generate a concentrated beam of energy which causes voltage surges in electronic equipment, rendering them useless before surge protectors have the chance to react.

Keith Coleman, Champ programme manager for Boeing's prototype arm Phantom Works, claims the technology marked 'a new era in modern warfare'.

 

'In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy's electronic and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive,' he said during the initial test.

 

However, experts fear that the project could create an arms race, with countries scrambling to build their own electromagnetic pulse weapons.

 

Professor Trevor Taylor, Professorial Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, has previously said the Western world would be more vulnerable attack because of its increased reliance on electronics.

 

'Should the US be known to have developed such a technology to the production stage, it would drive others to try to act similarly,' he said.

The US Air Force claims Champ has found an ideal delivery vehicle; the stealthy Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (pictured)

 

Sources

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3097937/This-silent-missile-destroy-enemy-s-electronics-PULSES-Air-Force-confirms-work-terrifying-new-weapon.html

 

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-stealth-missile-will-use-emps-to-cripple-enemy-ele-1705441209

 

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FEAR OF EMP NUCLEAR ATTACK PROMPTS PENTAGON TO REOPEN CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN 

 

 - An EMP event from a nuclear bomb or a major solar flare would fry the electrical grid and ALL ELECTRONICS indefinitely 

 - Nuclear power plants would suffer full meltdown 

 - There would be millions of victims of radiation, violence, and famine 

 

A giant solar flare could also fry the grid and turn America back to the Stone Age

US Congress warned that MILLIONS of Americans could die from EMP collapse of the electrical grid and subsequent nuclear power plant meltdowns

 - Read what experts have to say about PREPAREDNESS.  Could you survive with your own resources for a period of years?

 

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