Boeing Unveils Amazing, Slightly Terrifying New Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon

Motley Fool ^ | May 24, 2015 | Staff

[lbryce]

Boeing's "CHAMP" (Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project) is a one-missile, flying blackout.

Born into Generation X, I grew up with the threat of nuclear war -- and all its corollaries, from visions of mushroom clouds to "duck and cover" drills in high school to Terminator movies, and of course, the ever-present worry that one day a sneaky Soviet satellite would detonate way up in the sky and fry all of our electronics with an "electromagnetic pulse."

So imagine my surprise when the U.S. Air Force confirmed last week that it's developed an electromagnetic pulse weapon of its own, and that Boeing is helping to build it.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory maps the areas likely to be blacked out in the event of a high-altitude nuclear EMP attack on the United States. Boeing's area of effect will be considerably smaller.

[Impy]

I thought pink was a better color for daylight camouflage of aircraft, not night.

[Impy]

Yes, Bender! Tear him a new one!

[billphx]

Duck and cover was in the 60’s, remember doing it it in elementary school

[Captainpaintball]

10,000 need to be built and flown to china and russia as soon as they are operational. Then we bomb military installations, and start making demands.