{"id":129592,"date":"2019-03-18T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=129592"},"modified":"2019-03-17T14:44:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T14:44:39","slug":"u-s-air-force-confirms-boeings-electromagnetic-pulse-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/03\/u-s-air-force-confirms-boeings-electromagnetic-pulse-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Air Force Confirms Boeing\u2019s Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Boeing-Pentagon electromagnetic pulse weapon<\/p><\/div>\n

25 May 2015 – <\/em>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<\/a>, 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\u2019s 11<\/em>, this new weapon \u201cis a bomb \u2014 but without the bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n

Known as the \u201cCHAMP,<\/a>\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

According to Air Force Research Laboratory commander Major General Tom Masiello, CHAMP is \u201can operational system already in our tactical air force<\/a>.\u201d While it appears that the Laboratory has only commissioned five such devices with Boeing, with the Air Force\u2019s recent confirmation of the weapon\u2019s existence, there may be more in the works in the future.<\/p>\n

Military forces have been actively developing next-generation weapons that take warfare well beyond the guns and rockets that populate\u00a0modern arsenals. Lasers have been a key area of advancement: Lockheed Martin test fired a laser weapon in March that took out a truck engine<\/a> from a mile away, while the Navy deployed\u00a0a Laser Weapon System (LaWS for short) on a vessel in the Persian Gulf in December.<\/p>\n

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