Boeing to develop microwave-based airborne EMP weapon – 1286th Edition
Boeing’s been busy with the high-tech death lately — just a week after the company announced the Phantom Ray fighter UAV, it’s back in the news with a high-powered airborne microwave weapon designed to knock out enemy electronics. The goal is to more or less destroy the enemy’s tech with out having to set off one of those pesky nuclear explosions necessary for an EMP, and Boeing plans to test the tech out both in the air and on the ground several times over the next three years as part of the Air Force’s Counter-electronics High power microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) project. We’ll be ready with the popcorn.
[Via The Register]
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