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‘Today We Turned Science Fiction Into Science Fact’: Latest on the New Missile That Can Fry Electronics

Oct. 24, 2012 9:26am Liz Klimas

Boeing has completed another successful test for technology that fries enemy electronics with little to no collateral damage to other objects. This news comes a little more than a year after TheBlaze reported on Boeing’s previous successes with its Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP).

Boeing describes CHAMP as “a non-kinetic alternative to traditional explosive weapons that use the energy of motion to defeat a target.” In its most recent test that took place last week with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., over the Utah Test and Training Range, Boeing proved CHAMP could follow a pre-programmed flight plan and wipe out enemy target data and electronic subsystems by emitting high amounts of energy.

Boeings Counter electronics High powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project Successfully Knocks Out Computers in Test

Computers inside CHAMP’s target building before it was blasted with high-energy microwaves. (Image: Boeing)

Computers were knocked offline after the missile was fired. (Image: Boeing)

“This technology marks a new era in modern-day warfare,” Keith Coleman, CHAMP program manager for Boeing Phantom Works, said in the company’s press release. “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.”

Artist’s rendition of the missile. (Image: Boeing)

Watch this Boeing report on the latest test of the first fully functional CHAMP:

In a recent feature on CHAMP’s latest test, Boeing describes how the missile approached a two-story building, fired high-powered microwaves at it and effectively knocked out the computers and other electrical systems inside. It states that even the cameras that were inside the building to record the test were wiped out.

“Today we turned science fiction into science fact,” Coleman said in Boeing’s feature.

(H/T: Business Insider)

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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:33am
Boeing, hold onto this technology, until after Romney is in The White House!

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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:46am
  Microwaves? That will probably penetrate deep into structures, and I imagine that can even shut-down nuclear weapon systems.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:10am
  Russia is safe from us on this one. We wouldn’t be able to get our astronauts back from the space station if we whack Russian electronics. Another humiliation from Obama.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:12am
  Funny that they didn’t use LCD monitors. The CRT’s are more sensitive.
  
  Look at the lights on the 2 computers closest to the cameras (light blue in color), the CRT’s go out but the 2 lights are still on. The CRT on the right comes back on and when goes back off that computer’s light goes out but the on on the left stays on.
  
  Then, the guys “says” the cameras are taken out. This test failed. If they used LCD’s we would have seen a different result.
  
  Sorry folks, they’re lying. All they did was mess up some old CRT’s.
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:23am
  Cement&cement-block absorb a vast-majority of all wave-ennergy! A building of all-cement or double-cement-block will be totally safe unless the door,ceiling or floor is not. Also, a vessel such as a quality fr-load-washe or dryer is a good place to keep your small-electronics, because of the double-steel walls with air-gap between. The outside-shell will get smoking-hot while the “burst” is on, but the inner-steel drum will not be hot enough toruin electronics and will also “short-out” any dangerous currents-momentarilly by the burst.
  
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- Speed Racer
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:32am
  More importantly, Boeing or someone needs to come up with some kind of an effective countermeasure as soon as is humanly possible. I can 100% guarantee that if America has figured this out, it won’t be long before the technology falls into the hands of those that want to see our country destroyed.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:32am
  Most really important military rooms can be protected with a Faraday Cage I’ve read.
  
  http://unitedstatesaction.com/emp_and_faraday_cages.htm
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
  
  http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=faraday+cage&qpvt=faraday+cage&FORM=IGRE
  
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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 12:42pm
  That’s it tell the world that we have these weapons. It’s like telling the burglar when you won’t be home.
  
  I wonder how long it will be until Bammy lets one of these fall into enemy hands, maybe have one malfunction over Iran.
  
  Or maybe use these on conservative media outlets just before his takeover of the US for the global elites.
  
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- OlderCowGirl
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 12:47pm
  @monk…….I would think that it’s the computers that were taken out (target)…who cares about monitors? ?The monitors are just and indicator of what the computers are doing/or not doing.
  
  What makes you think this is a big lie?
  
  My only complaint about this is that other countries can do the same thing to us. I live in the country away from big cities…but big cities generate/control my “electric”. That’s why I’ve been working for 4 yrs to live without electricity. Not an easy task…we’re cloudy/rainy in winter. One can never depend on solar power. I feel sorry for the city folks who live “vertical”.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 12:58pm
  MONK
  That’s usually with an EMP. This is microwave radiation, but the Farsday cage would probably still work.
  It doesn’t say if it fries electronics or just scrambles them enough to knock them out of commission.
  An EMP most definitely fries anything electronic, unless it is protected. Not sure if microwave would fry anything, and it looks directed, unlike an EMP, which means you can still operate YOUR equipment in the area. That’s the most important part of this, is that it is directed.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 1:11pm
  @OlderCowGirl
  
  My reasoning that the (light blue) light on the computer in the front left still has it’s indicator light on meaning it’s still running. You can see the one next to it goes out. The one on the left might be OK. So might some of the others. I can’t see indicator lights on them before the test.
  
  If a monitor dies it doesn’t mean the computer is dead also.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 1:15pm
  Hi Anonymous T. Irrelevant,
  
  Thanks for the info. I’d still like to see them hook up a working monitor to that computer that still has it’s light on.
  
  The 2 front computers are the same (and are Sony’s) so they should have been effected the same most likely.
  
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- 4xeverything
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 1:36pm
  I was looking at the 3 monitors in the back row. It seems to me that you can still see the reflections of the lights. They look like white lines across the monitors.
  
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- manandwolf
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 1:46pm
  fake, trying to manage an emp type weapon, this is bogus the camera was not knocked out and the electronics in the room are ancient? why?
  
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- The_Pointy_End
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 2:21pm
  @Gonzo
  Our astronauts would be able to get back home from the space station using the soyuz capsule. However, thanks to the Obama administration, the US would not be able to get back up. So Russia would claim ownership through squatter rights :)
  
  The space program is being picked up by private enterprises. SpaceX (owned by Elon Musk who sold PayPal to fund his space exploration) is working toward man flights in his dragon space craft. SpaceX has launched two successful unmanned missions to the space station already. One being just this month. After five successful missions, NASA should give the ok to SpaceX to launch astronauts to the space station.
  
  Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic is currently sub-orbital and not able to reach the space station yet. But give him time.
  
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- C. Schwehr
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 4:34pm
  Note to people who wish to survive such an attack: Take copper screening and line the area you wish to protect (electronic spares and stand alone equipment not hooked to outside power or electrically conducting material of any kind) and ground the screen well. This is called a faraday cage, and it is the only way to keep EMP from affecting your electronic equipment!
  
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- RamonPreston
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 6:38pm
  @Gonzo That is what the “jump from edge of space” was all about. They want to know if a person can jump from the space station back to earth.
  
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- kenlbear
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 7:25pm
  1. Put your electronics into the refrigerator or the microwave (turn them off) for protection. They act like the Faraday Cage mentioned elsewhere.
  2. You can’t jump from the space platform to Earth. You cannot get enough delta-v from your legs. You would just orbit alongside it as a corpuscle.
  3. Miltary radars, such as Phalanx, have a “burn mode” intended to fry electronics. They also fry birds flying through the beam. Ask any Navy fire control officer.
  4. Directed microwave beams are not the same as EMP, but share some of the characteristics of EMP damage. Depending on the wavelength, microwaves are highly absorbed by air and they do not travel far at the wavelengths that are most destructive.
  
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- vanman4446
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 7:29pm
  Well with our liar in chief obummer the chinese should have it by next week.
  
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- db321
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 7:50pm
  Obama just squirted his puddy!
  
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- Two Sheds
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 8:29pm
  To someone that asked, they used inexpensive old computers to save money. When I was in AFOTEC we used charcoal grills to simulate hot engines of trucks in a convoy. Saved a fortune of taxpayers money. This test was successful, an autonomous aircraft flew over the target and directed it’s ray beam at a C2 center and put it out of commission. Nearby good guys still have working electronic equipment. The hard part is steering the beam from a moving platform. Soon we’ll have lazers on flying droids.
  
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- Watermain
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:07pm
  @themonk: easy to build a faraday cage. I keep my electronics stored in one when not in use, except for desktop computers of course.
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:18pm
  Think of all the classified intel obama has had access to over the last 4 yrs. They’d best watch him & watch him good once he is tossed here in a couple weeks. This traitor is liable to set us up for a huge national security fall.
  
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- jcascio
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:00am
  Took my thunder for sure. As long as this administration is in the White House they had surely have a better way of protecting their secrets than we have exhibited in the past. Do not trust these guys to not steal their technology and give it straight to the muslim brotherhood, china, or whoever is out to get this country destroyed.
  
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- jcascio
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:02am
  My sentiments exactly. Do not trust this administration not to steal Boeing’s technology to give to our Peace loving friends in the middle east, china, venzuela, all those places where they have such peaceful feelings for the United States. We have to get this man out of the White House.
  
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- ObamaForward_OverTheCliff
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:09am
  ” ‘Today We Turned Science Fiction Into Science Fact’: Latest on the New Missile That Can Fry Electronics”
  
  An Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) hit and …
  Anything with electronics (TV, radio, iPad, car, refrigerator, hot-water boiler, cell/telephone, satellite/cable TV, pacer-maker, airplanes)? Anything with wires? … Fried.
  
  Got candles, books, ink-wells & quill pens, bicycles (or horses)? Me neither. So think “Faraday cage”:
  
  “DIY Faraday Cage Ideas”
  http://readynutrition.com/resources/diy-faraday-cage-ideas_09052012/
  “In 1836, English scientist Michael Faraday conducted an experiment on electrostatic charges that resulted in the creation of the container that bears his name. …. A Faraday cage is an enclosure made of conductive material that blocks both static and non-static electrical fields. This protects devices from a weapons EMP strike, a solar flare event, or a lightning strike.”
  
  “What’s in YOUR Faraday Cage? A common sense guide to preparing for an EMP”
  http://thesurvivalmom.com/2012/07/16/whats-in-your-faraday-cage-a-common-sense-guide-to-preparing-for-an-emp/
  “… you can improvise an EMP-proof container of your own … • An aluminum garbage can with a lid • A metal filing cabinet • A metal tool box • …. none of your electronics directly contact the metal of the container. … Faraday cages should be grounded in order to disperse the energy.”
  
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frogg
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:28am
I have a patent that will protect you auto from this!

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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:07am
  Good luck with that, besides if people didn’t already get to where they wanted to be beforehand, then I’m guessing highways would be pretty congested from traffic lights not working to flow traffic along.
  
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- I am 'We the People
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:08am
  Well if you have apatent please chare the patent number, so that we can benefit.
  
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TexasIndependant
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:24am
Mid 1980′s technology and someone does a tiny update and thinks its groundbreaking…lol.. They fail to mention at a minimum it causes sterilization of the people in those offices and at a maximum it causes immediate death by cooking people from the inside out. US Military had this technology during the Reagan Administration. Take a door off a microwave oven and put your hand in and turn it on for 30 seconds and get back to me…This is truly a weapon of mass destruction. Im thinking being cooked alive is a horrible way to die.

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- The Backwoods Engineer
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:40am
  TEXASINDEPENTANT, if you knew any less about microwave engineering, you’d be truly dangerous. Look, this is my area of expertise. This is NOT the same as your hand being cooked in a microwave oven. The CHAMP produces a PULSE effect, not a continuous wave like a microwave oven magnetron does.
  
  Stop spreading misinformation when you know less than zero about a subject.
  
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- ApokTheGreat
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:43am
  12 Now this will be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will arot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.
  13 It will come about in that day that a great panic from the LORD will 1fall on them; and they will aseize one another’s hand, and the hand of one will 2be lifted against the hand of another.
  14 aJudah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the bwealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance.
  15 So also like this aplague will be the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey and all the cattle that will be in those camps.
  
  New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. 1995 (Zec 14:12–15). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.
  
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- chazde3
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:38am
  @Backwoods Engineer: I always get a laugh when people hear the word microwave and automatically assume it is gonna cook something. I work for a company that is working on DOD projects developing similar technology for directed weapon technology. Nothing like knocking cruise missiles out of the sky from miles away using a directed beam of energy. Hopefully one day some piece I designed will be on board a navy destroyer helping protect American lives.
  
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- 2GodBeTheGlory
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:58am
  @The Backwoods Engineer
  
  An expert would know that ALL microwave radars use pulse method, always have. You want to step inside a beam of a military grade tracking radar? It will take less that 5 seconds for you to die at 100 foot. The question is, can one pulse kill? Yes, dependent on the energy of the beam at point entering into the body. Because of the frequency in use, we know that damage to cells can happen, however, other types of EMP cannot cause such damage because of the freq.
  
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- MetalPatriot
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 12:06pm
  Does any of you remember the Star Trek where all wars were fought with technology whereby computers generated the numbers of fatalities and people had to “voluntarily” walk into incinerators to match the tallies?
  
  I like technology, find it interesting to speculate…
  
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- chazde3
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:33pm
  In response to my previous comment, the weapons technology that I mentioned just got some major press coverage that I found after my previous post. It seems the leader of the Office of Naval Research, Rear Adm. Matt Klunder, was quoted as saying that he expects directed energy weapons to be aboard naval vessels in about 2 years. He also stated that recent tests had been very successful. I have no doubts that he was referring to tests done at my work place with Navy prototypes. Some of which I had done design work on. Here is a link with some more info on the Naval Laser program, some of you may be interested.
  
  http://news.yahoo.com/navys-laser-weapons-just-2-years-away-admiral-173636089–abc-news-topstories.html
  
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RaydocX
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:23am
So we are broadcasting that we have function EMP?!
WTF?! Tactical weapons are best employed when the bad guys find out only as they are being used.
And sadly, in the mud huts where our troops are still fighting and dying there is not an abundance of electronics, so the problem will be our enemies stealing this technology (or being given a gift of friendship by our President) and using it on us.

Worse, will Holder or ‘Big Sis’ insist that some ‘cell’ in the red states is so ‘radical’ that they have no choice but to black out that area.

A civilian strike by this would cause incredible economic damage here in America… having to buy new every piece of electronics… the loss of data… Get those class 10 storage devices, gang… back your data up. Reserch Faraday cages…

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- Popp40
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:49am
  I bet this administation will use this on America before he uses it on another country.
  
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- anothercomment
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:27am
  As I was reading this, (questioning this validity and the scope of this technology) I had a suspicion, if true, this type of technology would be used on AMERICANS before our aggressors. If you don’t trust the government…..you question their behavior.
  
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SocialistSlayer
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:17am
I retired over 17 years ago – This weapon is not new !

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BlackCrow
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:16am
Wonderful a weapon that destroys electronics and leaves the enemy combatants alive. Fat lot of good that is going to do against a bunch of desert dwellers who want to fight with swords because that is the way their prophet did it 1400 years ago. Sneaky cowards who hide behind women and children.

We need to develop a neutron bomb that will sterilize the desert vermin and leave their infrastructure intact so we can take the oil.

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Mister July
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:14am
…So how did the camera survive?

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- peace maker
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:32am
  THere is EMP shielding. Most of our high dollar military assets are shielded from EMPs. We have been testing this stuff for years.
  
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- spfoam1
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:37am
  The Russians told us they would use EMP weapons if they were to attack us. The Iranians have been firing missiles from ships that explode at high altitude, as if to tell us they can use EMP weapons against us. We are simply telling everyone that we can play the same game, and our EMP weapons will work better than theirs. To stop this one you have to stop the platform it is fired from, and I bet this can be launched from any military platform we have, so good luck stopping it. As for telling our enemies……that worked pretty well to deter the soviets. Russia was well aware of our ability to hammer them, so they would beat their chest (like Iran does) but they never threw a punch.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:27am
  @Mister July
  “…So how did the camera survive?”
  
  The same way the computer on the front left survived.
  
  They lied.
  
  In the video the guy says the cameras were taken out.
  
  Look at the light blue lights on the 2 closest computers. The one on the left never goes out.
  
  All they did was mess up some old CRT monitors.
  
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- punyhuman
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:28am
  Those lights are just signalling there is still power coming in from the grid. The screens are either blank or garbled because the signal from the PCs desisted due to being fried. The PCs are toast, not the power from the grid they used for the test.
  
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The0bserver
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:13am
Question:

Who will be the first traitorist leftist to give this technology to our enemies?

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- 00100111
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:41am
  Another question: Do we wonder if they haven’t already done that?
  
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- flahusky
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:42am
  He’s in the white house now.
  
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- donkeykong
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 6:47pm
  Obama.
  
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Minnaloushe
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:04am
So how will the administration slip one of these to the Iranians and the Chinese? Maybe on another drone?
Just wondering….

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- SageInWaiting
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:17am
  Hmmmm. It wasn’t that long ago that the existence of this kind of weapon would be considered classified, developed and held under the cloak of a “black” program. At least in THIS area the administration has a “full disclosure” policy.
  
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- Dorugremon
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:11pm
  It wasn’t that long ago that the existence of this kind of weapon would be considered classified, developed and held under the cloak of a “black” program.
  
  This is not true because there is nothing new about it. Nikola Tesla had a working prototype in the 1890s. It is all quite well known. The reason you probably haven’t heard of it before is that so long as all electronics was vacuum tube based, an EMP attack would accomplish nothing. It is the reason the USSR kept VT technology alive: an EMP *will not* ruin VT-based electronics.
  
  If the bad guy terrorists were smarter, they’d be considerably more dangerous.
  
  There is nothing to classify because this is just a new wrinkle on 19th century tech.
  
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Joel Knows
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:59am
Now that we have the missle developed, we’ll see China come up with the same missle in about 6 weeks. Our R&D seems to be pipelined to China so they can take our technology and manufacture it for their very own.
Does this new technology penetrate a Faraday cage?

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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:09am
  This missal was probably made in a Chinese factory. This is just one example of Obama’s dream of a non-lethal US Armed Forces. Its not going to work against important military targets. Oh its excellent for use against Americans like the hollow point bullets that were ordered.
  
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2GodBeTheGlory
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:56am
In order to defeat military grade electronics that are shielded, you would have to generate a vary large microwave burst that would be lethal to anyone near the point of detonation and the targeted area. Microwave burst are also vary directional, so it could only be used in extremely limited target swath. It also appears that though the monitors are off, the computers are on, look at the power button in the center of the CPU.

If you notice the test environment where the computers are on desks and the wall is ply-board. In a real office, the studs are aluminum or some other kind of metal and the computers would be on the floor. Monitors would be LCD not tube, and though the test platform is flawed in the environment that they are showing a targeted microwave burst could cause the outage, however, everyone knows to stop microwaves is to use shielding just like your microwave oven. Power lines can have a frequency shunts, as well as any exposed data lines. Nonmetallic fiber optic lines would not be affected by the burst. For military grade fiber optic lines that use metal, a shunt could be placed at both ends to protect send/receive equipment.

These types of burst have been gone over 20 years ago, along with EMP. The problem with this idea is that it is vary expensive to make such a weapon and more than likely it will not work. It’s also cheap to counteract.

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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:06am
  THIS WEAPON IS INTENDED FOR USE AGAINST AMERICANS
  
  Many companies including Chinese and Russian military targets of interest have their important computer rooms rf shielded Faraday rooms for this very reason. Is this a continuation of Obama’s policy of having a non-lethal military force? This missal is not going to help me sleep better at night.
  
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- OlderCowGirl
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 4:04pm
  As I was reading this information…I kept wondering why we would tell anyone about it? I think now after reading these comments that the message is both for our enemies (not the more experienced ones like Russia/China) and to frighten Americans, also.
  
  I thank all you electro-whizes out there for your input to this article. I always learn something from the commentors.
  
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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:55am
Launch a barrage @ DC immediately.

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ellietoo
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:47am
That’s nice but I think other countries have been preparing for this for years. Iran uses subterranean bunkers to hide their technology.

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PingPongPing
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:46am
oh no wonder…

they were using MS WINDOWS.

figures. :P

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- ICanComment
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:00am
  @PingPongPing
  
  Man, I want your microwave impervious OS, whatever it is. Activate the microwave firewall!
  
  In all seriousness, with a bunch of junker PCs in a plywood shack, chances are they’re not going to be running Solaris. ;)
  
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NinjaJuice
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:46am
Hmm,…Why did they have to announce this to our enemies as well? Shouldnt we hold our ace cards a little closer?

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- eagle2715
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:56am
  A weapon system like this does as much as a deterrent as it does as a weapon.
  
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- TreeTrimmerJim
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:11am
  In the 1950′s there was a short story about the ultimate weapon. In this story neighbors were feuding and one neighbor built the ultimate weapon which all other neighbors could see.
  
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bharris0
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:43am
Military secrets are the most fleeting of them all. Especially when we have a traitor in the white house that will gladly give those plans to our enemies, including the muslim brotherhood.

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sizzlinsexybeckster
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:41am
Gee, how lovely, but they are going to use this against the Americans. Fire Obama already, this is insane.

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term limits for congress
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:40am
You didn’t build that!

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- ICanComment
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:05am
  @term limits for congress
  
  The plywood shack, the junker PCs, or the weapon?
  
  “Someone else made that happen!”
  
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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:40am
How long will it take for 0 to give this technology away to China or Iran or Russia?

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- 2AFirearmsDealerDotCom
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:48am
  Sorry? Did you mean to say how long ago did O give it to them?
  
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Shamrock241
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:38am
THANKS for telling the world about your new toy, this surely won’t put the Chinese and Russians on edge.

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- NinjaJuice
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:48am
  Agreed,..the public don’t really need to know this. There has to be a better reason why they are announcing this. Maybe its a bluff….
  
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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:38am
The only thing it doesn’t take out are teleprompters.

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Ogilthorpe
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:35am
Awesome technology. I give it 15 to 20 minutes until the Chinese hack in and steal the plans.

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- RamonPreston
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 6:35pm
  and build their own.
  
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Sy Kosys
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:34am
EMP w/o the nuclear side-effects? Thought we already had that, meh at least according to Hollywierd

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:41am
  This is third-generation non-nuclear EMP tech. Most likely it can be used in multiple bursts per missile and in a combination of area pulse-burst, limited directed (a cone of effect) and a hyper-specific strike on one particular electric array (say a power generator)
  
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VRW Conspirator
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:34am
AWESOME!!!
Does all the damage of an EMP but with targeting and pinpoint accuracy….EXCELLENT Smithers!!

Can we do the next test over the North Korean or Iranian military command centers?? How about over Kremlin or Beijing? I mean they all are already organizing cyber warfare and hacking blitzs on us, we should give them a head up about what is coming if they continue… Send their government command and control back to the stone age and make them communicate with smoke signals…

Even better…put the weapon on an ICBM and use it to knock out all of the satellites those countries have in orbit…we know they are attacking ours already…return the favor….

Peace through Strength… Scare the CRAP out of them and they will behave a little better…

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SREGN
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 9:32am
Or a government uses it against its rebellious citizenry to silence the blogging before it sends in the tanks and gas. Chilling.

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- Stelex
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 10:02am
  I tend to think that way myself……..
  
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- rockymtngal
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:18am
  I agree!
  
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