A real EMP missile

[Frosty]

Reality has hit! Not much use against low tech warfare ie:towel heads in Afghanistan.

Lights out, Boeing creates the first working EMP bombReported by Jack Taylor on Tuesday, December 4 2012 10:05 am It’s official now – Boeing and the US Air Force have successfully demonstrated a working electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) device over a military compound in the Utah desert.  A spokesperson for Boeing stated, "Today we turned science fiction into science fact.”

11NEWS The story received very little attention in the media, and a lot of us who follow science and technology research missed it – we now have a working electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) missile that will be used as an offensive or defensive weapon by the military.  The project test was announced on September 22, 2012, and codenamed, the ‘Counter-Electronics High Power Advanced Missile Project’, or simply ‘CHAMP’. This is the first time a real EMP missile has been tested with positive real world results.

For years many people felt that in order to create an EMP weapon, there might be some collateral damage involved from some form of an explosion used to create the pulse.  However, this system does not make use of any explosive whatsoever, thereby resulting in zero collateral damage.

Boeing in partnership with the US Air Force Research Laboratories Directed Energy Directorate created the CHAMP weapons system, and successfully tested the system over the Utah desert on a military compound.  The exact details on how the device was made will remain a secret, but we do know that it is transmitted from a missile-like device that flies over the intended target and directs its concentrated microwave energy.


Keith Coleman who serves as Boeing’s CHAMP program manager in their Phantom Works division stated that the tests were conducted on a military compound set up in the Utah desert with cameras to record the very instant the device was deployed.  In the video that was recently declassified and made public, one can clearly see the images of numerous desktop computers running, and then suddenly all of them go out quickly followed by the camera going to black. 

“We hit every target we wanted to - we prosecuted every one.  Today we made science fiction, science fact”, said Coleman.  He went on to say that the EMP device not only worked well but he also implied it worked better than expected.  Coleman goes on to say, “When that computer went out, when we fired, it actually took out the cameras as well.  We took out everything on that.  It was fantastic.”  Coleman further noted that this new technology would be marked as a new age for modern warfare.

James Dodd who serves as Boeing’s Vice President of Military Aircraft said the device was made with troops in mind.  “We know this has some capabilities and some impact”, said Dodd. “So we’re really trying to engage the customer and see if we can find a way to get this filled and implemented sooner than later.”

Now that EMP technology is a reality and not just sci-fi,  one has to fear is that it may become more of a danger to those who created it, rather than the enemy.  Sure, an EMP weapon may prove useful against an enemy that are just as technologically advanced, but it wil be useless against an enemy that uses fighting tactics that are not affected by an EMP weapon, much like what we see today in Afghanistan.

Read more: http://vr-zone.com/articles/lights-out-boeing-creates-the-first-working-emp-bomb/18163.html#ixzz2EC1bxJOX

[jnevis]

That's just it...we aren't fighting a "low-tech" enemy in Afghanistan.  We gave them an awful lot of equipment in the 80s, most of it wasn't just weapons and ammunition.  There was a lot of technical equipment for command/control and intell.  Anything we didn't give them they have either engineered from Russian equipment or were handed by Iran.  The Israelis just shot down a UAV flown by Hamas, given to them by Iran.  Don't think for a second Iran wouldn't sell/give one to anybody fighting the "infedels."

We've had EMP weapons for decades, they just were bigger than just the EMP burst.  Any nuclear device when air burst throws an EMP burst off.  Now they've just made it tactical and less radioactive.

[Rastus]

That's just it...we aren't fighting a "low-tech" enemy in Afghanistan.  We gave them an awful lot of equipment in the 80s, most of it wasn't just weapons and ammunition.  There was a lot of technical equipment for command/control and intell.  Anything we didn't give them they have either engineered from Russian equipment or were handed by Iran.  The Israelis just shot down a UAV flown by Hamas, given to them by Iran.  Don't think for a second Iran wouldn't sell/give one to anybody fighting the "infedels."

We've had EMP weapons for decades, they just were bigger than just the EMP burst.  Any nuclear device when air burst throws an EMP burst off.  Now they've just made it tactical and less radioactive.

That's what I read...first strike doctrine included EMP bursts 25-200 miles up to get the Compton Scattering effect.  It might not affect an Afghan family in a mud hut somewhere but it would disperse and emaciate their cities.  The so-called "neutron bombs" were best at it.

[Ulmus]

Screw afghanistan, this is for Iran and China!  Any nuke sites within reach are plausibly denied into destruction/malfunction and the same goes for any Chinese corporation spying on our companies technology.

[tombogan03884]

Screw afghanistan, this is for Iran and China!  Any nuke sites within reach are plausibly denied into destruction/malfunction and the same goes for any Chinese corporation spying on our companies technology.

The really neat thing about The Iranian Nuke program is that they use thousands of high speed centrifuges to refine their plutonium.
With speeds measured in thousands of RPM's you could take out one of their sites by dropping a really large rock.
Any shock that sets up a vibration will cause a catastrophic cascade of destruction. 
If one breaks loose, or shatters under the stress it will throw off fragments that will create basically a mechanical, as opposed to chemical, chain reaction. 

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