Project CHAMP. Electromagnetic rocket is preparing for the series

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Rocket with CHAMP system on board - demo image

Various electronic systems are of particular importance to armies and civilian infrastructure. Their destruction or incapacitation can make a decisive contribution to victory. In this regard, the leading countries of the world are developing a diverse electromagnetic weapon. In the USA, the most interesting results in this area were obtained by the CHAMP program, developed by order of the Air Force.

A joint project


Work on the CHAMP program (Counter-electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project - “A promising project for a powerful microwave rocket to destroy electronics”) began at the end of the last decade and was carried out by several organizations. The leading role in the program is played by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) represented by the Directed Energy Directorate (DED).



It was planned to involve commercial enterprises as developers and manufacturers of specific products. So, almost immediately after the start, Boeing joined the program in the person of the Phantom Works branch, which solved development tasks. Subsequently, there was a proposal to engage Lockheed Martin as a manufacturer of delivery vehicles for CHAMP products. One of the applications of technology was developed at Raytheon.

By now, the bulk of the work on the new EMP weapon has been completed. The necessary tests were carried out, and in May 2019 there were reports of the delivery of the first pre-production CHAMP systems to the Air Force as part of the modified aviation rockets.

Goals and objectives


The goal of the CHAMP program was to study the possibilities, search for solutions and develop technologies for creating weapons capable of hitting the enemy’s electronics with a powerful electromagnetic pulse. At the same time, the possibility of the full implementation of the found concept and its bringing to operation in the army was not ruled out.


CHAMP or similar EMP weapons can be a convenient addition to existing electronic warfare systems. EW systems are able to temporarily disable enemy systems, while EMR weapons simply destroy them. As part of the program, it was planned to develop methods for optimal and flexible joint application of two classes of systems.

As part of the CHAMP program, a search was made for technologies and technical solutions suitable for use in various fields. On their basis, an EMR system was developed for aircraft missiles, and then a project for a land complex with similar capabilities appeared.

One of the objectives of the program was to reduce the pulse power to the minimum necessary. This made it possible to reduce the requirements for the power supply of military equipment, and in the presence of high-precision guidance systems - dramatically reduce collateral damage. Saving energy also allows you to hit multiple targets in one flight.

Real results


On October 22, 2012, Boeing announced the first successful testing of a CHAMP product as a missile weapon. The press release was accompanied by a short video demonstrating the basic principles of work and statements by the developers. It is noteworthy that the experimental rocket or CHAMP system was shown only in the form of computer graphics.

From the published data it follows that the result of the program was a compact electronic unit suitable for mounting on aircraft missiles. It includes power supply facilities and a microwave radiation generator with a directional antenna device. During the flight, CHAMP can aim the antenna at a given target and “hit” it with directional EMP.


Demonstration of the principle of the rocket with CHAMP

The missile flew over the training ground along the specified route. Several times at given points, the CHAMP system generated an electromagnetic pulse of the required power and configuration. As conditional goals, various electrical and electronic devices were used. All of them failed due to EMR exposure, demonstrating the potential of the CHAMP product.

In June 2013, Raytheon tested its version of the CHAMP system as a self-propelled ground based system. All devices were placed in a container on a standard car chassis. An antenna device with a characteristic large mirror was installed on the roof of the container. Using communication and control equipment, the EMP armament complex was connected to a surveillance radar.

During tests over the test range, unmanned aerial vehicles flew. The radar performed their detection and gave target designation to the CHAMP system. Her task was to defeat the UAV with a directed electromagnetic pulse. The complex worked in a fully automatic mode, although under the supervision of operators. He managed to successfully hit all the targets, and it was not a question of temporarily incapacitating - the electronics of the targets burned out.

Media Question


The result of the CHAMP program was a set of technologies and technical solutions on the basis of which new weapons can be created. So, for combat aircraft, a special electronic unit has been developed, suitable for use with different carriers. Already in the tests of 2012 it was used as a payload for an experimental rocket. In the future, this idea was developed.

By the middle of the last decade, AFRL and allies identified the main paths for the further development of aviation EMP weapons. It was proposed to install electronic blocks on various air-based missiles. The possibility of using air-to-surface missiles such as AGM-86 ALCM, AGM-158 JASSM, etc. These types of missiles can be used by strategic and tactical aircraft.


The launch of the AGM-158B JASSM-ER rocket fighter F-16. Similarly, CHAMP products will be used in the future.

In the spring of 2015, the US Air Force announced a new phase of the CHAMP program. Now it was planned to adapt the existing EMI weapon to the installation on the AGM-158B JASSM-ER missile. To carry out these works, the company Lockheed Martin was involved in the program.

The JASSM-ER air-to-surface missile was chosen because of the optimal balance of flight performance and carrying capacity, as well as due to the availability of a modern, efficient autopilot. Such a missile can go along a rather long and difficult route and “cover” several targets in one flight. A variant of the CHAMP system for the AGM-158B per flight is capable of delivering up to hundreds of pulses that affect electronics.

Operational readiness


In May 2019, an unexpected and curious message appeared in the American specialized media about the beginning of the deployment of promising EMR weapons. It was alleged that Boeing Phantom Works, by order of AFRL DED, manufactured and delivered at least 20 CHAMP payloads to the Air Force.

The type of missile equipped with an EMR system was not specified. It was reported that the carriers of such missiles will be long-range bombers B-52H. A rocket with CHAMP called ready for use. No technical or organizational details were provided.

According to past plans, full-scale production and deployment of new JASSM-ER missiles will only begin by the mid-twenties. Due to the correct choice of platforms for placing the CHAMP system, it is supposed to ensure compatibility with both long-range and tactical aircraft. This will be the desired outcome of the ongoing CHAMP program. EMR weapons will go into service and become a flexible tool for solving certain tasks.

In the meantime, we are talking only about pre-production and, probably, military tests. According to their results, the Air Force can update their requirements, which will lead to a revision of the project. However, the updated weapons will be based on the well-known and mastered technologies created in the first stages of the CHAMP program. This allows the U.S. Air Force to show some optimism and expect combat-ready microwave weapons by the scheduled dates.
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  1. +7
    10 May 2020 05: 11
    did not come across a phrase; "no analogues".
    1. +2
      10 May 2020 05: 46
      You’re kidding me in the morning laughing , here many have a bo-bo head
    2. KCA
      0
      10 May 2020 06: 02
      And you will not meet, do you think Putin shows cartoons about everything, for everyone, and does not keep anything in his pocket? In vain, we are very closely engaged in explosive EMP, there were even rumors about a rocket with an explosive EMP generator, but there were no rumors, there were no cartoons, and the special officers on possible developers will say only one thing - they didn’t, we didn’t do it, we don’t know, they have such a job in the GosMKB "Raduga" special officers after Putin personally pressed the button and sent the X-101 into flight, claimed that there was no such X-101 missile and that "Raduga" had not developed them, and offered to go to the forest
      1. -1
        10 May 2020 17: 15
        It is easier and more visual to explode a 20 megawatt charge.
      2. 0
        11 May 2020 21: 20
        Quote: KCA
        explosive EMP we are very closely involved

        so that's the trick - the Amer system Champ is equipped with reusable microwave emitter, and as stated in the article:
        "it is able to go along a rather long and difficult route and “cover” several targets in one flight. A variant of the CHAMP system for the AGM-158B can produce up to hundreds of pulses per flight"
        Although, the effectiveness, of course, is in doubt.
      3. 0
        1 July 2020 14: 34
        "there were even rumors" - and no further
    3. +6
      10 May 2020 08: 22
      Quote: Dead Day
      did not come across a phrase; "no analogues".

      Well, this is a translation, but for the most part we do not read special foreign literature in the original. So what they write, we do not know. But the equipment is interesting. A peculiar asymmetric response to our air defense systems?
    4. +1
      10 May 2020 10: 05
      Quote: Dead Day
      did not come across a phrase; "no analogues".

      And do not meet, because this is an analogue ... and more correctly, an analogue cartoon. The link is no longer cartoons, and a year ago.
      https://xn--b1aga5aadd.xn--p1ai/2019/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%8510/
      1. 0
        10 May 2020 20: 40
        The issue of creating such ammunition is being discussed. There are conceptual ideas that we are ready to translate into reality if there are relevant requests from the customer.
        He added that at present, the state customer in the person of the Ministry of Defense has not yet issued technical tasks for such shells.
    5. 0
      10 May 2020 11: 49
      What an interesting rocket, robot wars are just around the corner.
  2. +5
    10 May 2020 05: 53
    Interesting Voeing dances ...! Not so long ago, the "press" stated that the creation of a microwave "gun" of directional action (such as a radar ...) is a very difficult task ... it is "easier" to create an EMP bomb! ... I, for example, do not understand , how, after (after) a shot, it is possible to keep the device working ?! Well, okay, the "explosive" EMP generator ... here it is necessary that the "waffle" does not have time to melt in those "micro-fractions" of a second, while it "emits" a "nano-long", but very powerful impulse! And here ... so that " well, a very powerful "impulse jumped off the transmitting path, antenna system and device would not have happened ??? belay request
    1. -1
      10 May 2020 06: 08
      A mini nuclear strike will be XNUMX times more effective than any flying microwave. Local wars have become too expensive.
      1. for
        0
        10 May 2020 10: 13
        Quote: siberalt
        Mini nuclear strike will be a hundred times more effective

        And what is heard about the neutron bomb.
        1. 0
          11 May 2020 21: 26
          Quote: for
          what is heard about the neutron bomb

          neutron warheads have sunk into oblivion.
          some remains in the A-135 (although it seems that the deadline has already expired, it may have been written off).
          What new missiles are equipped with - how terrible as a secret bully
    2. KCA
      0
      10 May 2020 06: 41
      A pulse can be triggered inside the waveguide, it doesn’t affect the surrounding equipment, but sending it after the waveguide in a narrow stream is a problem, but it seems to me that it’s faster to solve it, our physicists are the best in magnets, electromagnets and particle control in a magnetic field, and there and the control of the magnetic field itself nearby
      1. +1
        10 May 2020 20: 42
        Yes, only they have a rocket already in the series, but with us
        At present, the state customer in the person of the Ministry of Defense has not yet issued technical tasks for such shells.
    3. +1
      10 May 2020 08: 08
      With a microwave gun, everything is quite simple



      But according to what principle EMR works and what is its effectiveness in modern technology and infrastructure, which are completely shielded, there are more questions than answers
  3. +2
    10 May 2020 07: 15
    many scientific discoveries are used to harm the person himself .... here is the main difference between a person and an animal ...
    1. 0
      11 May 2020 17: 20
      Above add - a person UNREASURABLE.
  4. +14
    10 May 2020 07: 32
    A lot of words - a little specificity.
    Blah blah blah from the ad.
    After a surge of interest in EMP ammunition in the late 80s and 90s, as research came to the conclusion: the creation and saturation of troops with EMP ammunition is ineffective.
    I explain. EMR can (I emphasize - can, i.e. the impact is not guaranteed!) briefly (for a period of several seconds to several minutes) to disable radio-electronic equipment. AND hit to the same equipment conventional lethal ammunition will destroy this equipment forever... At the same time, to deliver the EMP ammunition to the target, you need the same thing as for the delivery of a conventional "lethal" one: the same projectile, the same missile, with the same accuracy up to several meters. hi
    In this connection, the logical conclusion: if the cost of a short-term incapacitation of an object of influence is equal to the cost of its destruction, is it not better to immediately try to destroy it? request Actually, they decided so.
    So why these gestures on the "project SNAMR"? "Generate up to 100 pulses" and briefly extinguish several objects? And who will give it? Who will give such a rocket to fly and strike safely, do you understand? Only those who have no air defense missile defense at all.
    In addition, for at least some efficiency of the EMP, a very large power is needed! No other way. Therefore, this was achieved in an explosive manner: i.e. amy ammunition detonated near the target. And here, the firms promise to install a kind of "microwave oven" on an expensive rocket, which will "shoot" impulses as much as 100 times and hit, and hit, and hit ... Why? Where does energy come from if it is it that is the "damaging factor"?
    It smacks of another high-tech and meaningless drink of the US military budget. drinks
    The general conclusion: buy good anti-aircraft defense and do not be afraid of anyone. good
    1. +8
      10 May 2020 08: 23
      Quote: Private-K
      senseless drink of the US military budget

      To disable the electronic system by detonation, you need to know its exact position and have a penetrating ammunition if it is in cover. On the other hand, the radius of destruction of EMP ammunition is from 5 to 20 km, which is comparable to the impact of nuclear weapons. Moreover, during tests in powerful EMP generators - vircators in the immediate vicinity i.e. even the power cable and the loaded ammunition explode for about 1 km. Those. there is an effect and it is not necessary to know the exact position of control and communication objects. For example, according to the representatives of the Thales company, this is how their communication and control systems were removed from Saddam Hussein during the start of Operation Desert Storm, and not as written in our reports because of the "bookmark" in their equipment.
      The problems of any media such as CHAMP for AGM-158B lies in its own protection and they are disposable. Therefore, the American company is trying to reduce power with an increase in the directivity of radiation. For a device with a virtual cathode, this is extremely problematic, and the guiding structures here work poorly, or rather in any way, they break through them stupidly.
      1. +3
        10 May 2020 08: 49
        Quote: Vita VKO
        the radius of destruction of EMP ammunition is from 5 to 20 km

        This is for a nuclear explosion! Undermining 16-20 kg of ammo ammunition gives a radius of not more than 10-15 m.
        To defeat equipment protected by military standards with directional microwave radiation at ranges of kilometers, we need huge multi-ton devices mounted on powerful platforms wassat rather than a relatively small rocket with a useful volume of 300 per 1000 mm. tongue

        Quote: Vita VKO
        Moreover, during tests in powerful EMP generators - vircators in the immediate vicinity i.e. even the power cable and the loaded ammunition explode for about 1 km. Those. there is an effect and it is not necessary to know the exact position of control and communication objects. For example, according to the representatives of the Thomson company (the real Thales), this is how their communication and control systems were removed from Saddam Hussein during the start of Operation Desert Storm,

        Yeah. That is why already 8 years after "Desert Storm", during a raid on Serbia, the Americans used Tomogavki with simple fibers covering power lines and electrical substations and causing a short circuit. Where is this miracle ammunition from Thomson-Thales that was in 1991? request

        Quote: Vita VKO
        The problems of any media such as CHAMP for AGM-158B lies in its own protection and they are disposable. Therefore, the American company is trying to reduce power with an increase in the directivity of radiation.

        This is how a decrease in microwave power on a rocket will reduce visibility and increase the security of the rocket? belay
        How lowwill an energy impulse work on protected military electronics?
        And the anti-aircraft missile defense system doesn’t care what kind of warhead stands on a rocket, etc. — it knocks everything down. angry
        bully

        It seems the Americans came up with an expensive rocket to disable civilian laptops, MP3 players, game consoles and cell phones for those who are objectionable. laughing
        1. +3
          10 May 2020 09: 59
          Quote: Private-K
          Undermining 16-20 kg of ammo ammunition gives a radius of not more than 10-15 m.

          Really. Somehow the leadership of the Belarusian military-industrial complex wanted to surprise us with "high technologies". Even their scientist was called to the luminary to demonstrate how a computer monitor explodes 10 meters from their EMP generator. Of course, apart from a smile, your low-intellectual irony and the Belarusian "desire to invent a bicycle" does not cause. But Belarus is still far from the United States and not Russia, where this scientific field has been engaged in for almost 50 years, which means there are some reasons to consider it promising.
          1. +4
            10 May 2020 11: 06
            Here is a specific situation. There is an electrical substation. This is a site, conventionally, 100 by 100 m including the right-of-way. If a 200 kg EMP ammunition is detonated above it, the substation will be disabled. Everything will burn out there. Repair work will be required for days from several to a couple of weeks (depending on the availability of qualified workers and consumables). But if such a substation gets 200 kg of ordinary RDX pressed into a hard "glass" (that is, a banal aerial bomb of "250 kg" caliber) - that's it, amba, the substations are kraty. It will be easier to build a new one than to restore an old one.

            I recommend everyone to study here such material https://tnenergy.livejournal.com/145111.html - there is more about EMP from an atomic explosion, but also a lot about the basic characteristics of EMP in general.
            1. 0
              11 May 2020 07: 18
              Back in the 84-85s I read about devices for protection against electromagnetic radiation installed at the inputs of electronic equipment and I think that for 40 and a penny of years this topic was not forgotten and the manufacturer of military electronics has been putting such protection for a long time, well, the household appliances from such an impulse will definitely burn .
        2. +4
          10 May 2020 10: 16
          Underestimating the enemy is a bad omen, to put it mildly. Unless, of course, some kind of "zaslanets" is not engaged in this.
    2. +2
      10 May 2020 12: 37
      "In this connection, the logical conclusion: if the cost of a short-term
      failure of the object of influence is equal to the cost of its destruction,
      wouldn’t it be better to immediately try to destroy? "////
      ---
      Why destroy? Destroy - replace with a new one.
      It is more convenient for the air defense system to be "disabled" temporarily during attacks on objects and
      Fenders fired blindly, wasting rockets, but not hitting.
      Noise, fire, explosions - 75% of the shot down targets and all that is needed exploded on the ground.
      But the electronics remained intact and no one was killed near the complexes.
      1. 0
        10 May 2020 15: 34
        According to the logic of local war, it may be so, but still debatable. All the same, it will not work to quickly replace the air defense system, and the reserve is limited, and besides, the calculation is out of order.

        Air defense stations with the same success are covered with small striking elements of anti-radar missiles.
        Radars and rockets also become worthless, electronics as a whole is intact, and part of the calculation housed in cars, too.
  5. +2
    10 May 2020 07: 59
    It is not entirely clear about reusability. And what about all the on-board equipment of this rocket on mechanics and hydraulics or something that works. Without reliable grounding, protection cannot be made from such a powerful impulse.
  6. 0
    10 May 2020 08: 24
    and in May 2019, there were reports of the delivery of the first CHAMP pre-production systems as part of modified aviation missiles to the Air Force.
    Will they also be included in START-3? feel
  7. 0
    10 May 2020 08: 24
    There are very deep doubts that anyone owns more or less serious development of em weapons of multiple action. The technology for creating a powerful EM pulse on an explosive pulse has been known for a long time. But this is not a controlled technology, and therefore requires constant testing to create statistics. The creation of controlled technologies, not only for a specific range of perturbations, but according to the algorithm, requires a very powerful inductor and capacitor. However, not many people realize that high voltages and currents in the solenoid also create equivalent self-induction effects. Therefore, first of all, you need to radically change the design of these devices. What no one has! Moreover, a new type of device is needed that would maintain a high energy density of magnetic fluxes and not scatter them.
    1. 0
      10 May 2020 09: 54
      gridasov
      Doubt or do not doubt - no one will ask you. And you will not really know anything. It remains only to take on faith or not to accept, as "Putin's cartoons" and the opposite side.
      1. +1
        10 May 2020 10: 17
        You misunderstood me. The theoretical foundations of creating a superdense electronic magnetic space on magnetic fluxes as the basis for the creation of EMF have been developed by us. Therefore, here the inverse dominant. And it is worth recalling that the greatest discoveries are made in silence and renunciation of worldly vanity.
    2. 0
      10 May 2020 15: 44
      So, like superconductors have the property of displacing the magnetic field.
      1. 0
        10 May 2020 16: 45
        Firstly, if a superconductor would displace the internal magnetic flux, then we will at least get a dipole polarization with a dominant vector. And this means the presence of current. Therefore, anyone who is recognized in an applied manner on this topic should pay attention to this. Secondly, you need to understand to what levels this potential difference can be. Because further, the superconductor loses its stability to existence.
        1. 0
          10 May 2020 17: 44
          What else to write, on Wikipedia, almost everything turns out that way.
          True, superconductors, in addition to the above, in a powerful magnetic field can have a reduced transition temperature or a reduced transmission current.

          By current strength until the loss of superconductivity found only this:
          Second-generation superconducting tapes with a width of 12 mm and a thickness of 0,1 mm in liquid nitrogen in the absence of an external magnetic field pass current up to 500 A. In an external magnetic field of 1 T, the critical current still reaches 100 A, and at 5 T - up to 5 A .
          (https://habr.com/en/post/361999/)
          1. 0
            10 May 2020 18: 13
            Yes, but this does not mean that the internal field is being supplanted. this means that in the structure of the material systemic changes occur that form not just polarization, but spin, which mainly affects the unidirectional current vector.
  8. 0
    10 May 2020 08: 26
    "Stuffing" of the "Star Wars" type. Even theoretically, an explosive magnetic EMP generator can only be one-time. I think that the dimensions of the equipment are also decent.
    And about the silence / reflection and not having analogues - to the developers of the Alabuga rocket.
    1. 0
      10 May 2020 08: 53
      But the general message is from the same series. Destruction of the enemy with minimal destruction of infrastructure, as it is not economically viable.
  9. +4
    10 May 2020 10: 02
    Quote: KCA
    And you will not meet, do you think Putin shows cartoons about everything, for everyone, and does not keep anything in his pocket? In vain, we are very closely engaged in explosive EMP, there were even rumors about a rocket with an explosive EMP generator, but there were no rumors, there were no cartoons, and the special officers on possible developers will say only one thing - they didn’t, we didn’t do it, we don’t know, they have such a job in the GosMKB "Raduga" special officers after Putin personally pressed the button and sent the X-101 into flight, claimed that there was no such X-101 missile and that "Raduga" had not developed them, and offered to go to the forest

    then why if we have such cool developments, the army just recently put some kind of provincial drone, an analogue of the old mq1?
    1. KCA
      0
      13 May 2020 07: 19
      There is also the S-70 in development, which has already flown in tandem with the SU-57 in standalone mode, without an operator, it took off, flew and landed
  10. +2
    10 May 2020 10: 13
    An inhuman weapon must be banned! Clap, and the FIU databases were reset to zero, and the money for retirement evaporated. Clap, and according to the state register everyone was left without property. Let us also remember about "smart cities" and "digital government"! Z. Y. The Spaniards miraculously survived without a government for 11 months and increased their GDP in comparison with the estimated one. And we can do this, without sensitive guidance, I doubt. laughing Z. Z. Y. Worse than an atomic bomb. Strict planetary ban.
  11. +3
    10 May 2020 10: 22
    Even in Nazi Germany, they tried to create electromagnetic torpedoes. They worked unpredictably. Of course, there will be those who say that since then technology has gone a long way. Yes, technology has gone a long way, but magnetic anomalies from planet Earth have not disappeared since then.
    1. +2
      10 May 2020 11: 36
      Quote: Bat039
      Even in Nazi Germany, they tried to create electromagnetic torpedoes. They worked unpredictably.

      Listen, mouse. Do you feel the difference between an electromagnetic torpedo operating on large masses of iron and electromagnetic radiation? For simplicity, it’s like between a fridge magnet and a microwave.
      Of course, there are those who say that since then technology has stepped far
      Yes, but the level of human intelligence has basically remained the same. Paradox, don’t you find it? .. maybe the exam is just to blame ...? not .. just brains dry out from inaction.
      1. 0
        10 May 2020 12: 47
        You have very accurately noticed that intelligence needs to be adapted to large volumes of data, otherwise the brain is lost in information and stops working productively, and most importantly, it is not able to distinguish seeds from chaff. Therefore, new technologies for analyzing big data are at the same time the forerunner of new discoveries and inventions.
        1. +1
          10 May 2020 13: 08
          Actually, it was a sarcasm in the address of the interlocutor who calls himself with a mouse and clever smart bukoffs from the keyboard. Although it is unlikely he understood this sarcasm - for this victim of progress it’s hard to move the brains, especially if they are not burdened with intellect or even erudition within the school curriculum
  12. 0
    10 May 2020 10: 26
    I agree that Navalny is a CIA schnick. But this does not mean that he is not telling the truth. Therefore, everyone decides for himself what to do with this information. Trump personally makes excuses for every "slander" on himself, his entourage, and family. And Putin does not even participate in the presidential debate and still reads from a piece of paper, so waiting for a dialogue is useless.
  13. 0
    10 May 2020 11: 02
    Yes, all this is nonsense .. I read in Shpakovsky's article about a submachine gun that EMR is no longer relevant ...)))
  14. -1
    10 May 2020 14: 43
    CHAMP sucks: military electrics and electronics are shielded with foil and other metal coatings, so no EMR is scary for her, except for the antennas of radio stations and radars (and they self-reset in 10-15 minutes).

    In addition, in order to have a more or less sane radius of destruction (up to a dozen km), an electromagnetic pulse must be generated by a disposable explosive magnetic generator, and not a reusable weak-emitter.

    To stop a civilian vehicle during an anti-terrorist operation, CHAMP will still do, but not for military use.
    1. 0
      10 May 2020 15: 54
      Not a fact, it all depends on the intensity of the em field, its frequency, and, possibly, on the time of action (in case of grounding, and further according to the Joule-Lenz law).
      1. 0
        10 May 2020 21: 57
        The action of an EMP depends solely on its power - a pulse induces a current in the conductors that burns the electronics / electrical engineering (if it is not shielded by a metal foil).
        1. 0
          13 May 2020 12: 12
          Not only, in electrical logic elements, EMP can also cause a "breakdown" (a strong drop in resistance in the opposite direction, even in gas-discharge devices).

          Concerning the foil: non-contact hardening by induction heating is used in industry, i.e. at high values ​​of the foil tension, and indeed, any shielding will burn from the induced currents caused by the alternating magnetic field.
          In an extreme case, you can see the melting of bronze in the microwave.
          1. 0
            13 May 2020 12: 27
            The strength of the current induced in the shielding coating is directly proportional to the linear dimensions of the coating, with their small size, foil is quite enough, with a large size, metal cases of various thicknesses are used, isolated from the internal equipment.
            1. 0
              13 May 2020 12: 39
              Are the coating parameters determined for some standardized EMR value (magnetic field strength, power, or something else; for some frequency and frequency spectrum; at a certain time) or are complex tests meant (from the microwave range to the X-ray)?
              The binding to the linear dimensions is due to the potential difference and the resistance of the shielding layer or the degree of shielding?

              Ps interesting to know really
              1. 0
                13 May 2020 14: 36
                EMP - broadband radiation with a wavelength from kilometer to millimeter; everything that is smaller (especially X-ray) is extinguished in the air atmosphere.

                The formula for calculating the current induced by external electromagnetic radiation includes the parameter L - the length of the conductor (the largest current is induced in overhead power lines).
  15. 0
    10 May 2020 16: 41
    enemy electronics

    It's funny In the demonstration images, the Yankees are fighting, apparently, with civilian objects.
    1. 0
      12 May 2020 20: 43
      In addition to artificial sources of EMP, there are natural sources, lightning, the power of EMP of some of them at a short distance from the aircraft is very high, and it does not matter to him.

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“Non-profit organizations, unregistered public associations or individuals performing the functions of a foreign agent,” as well as media outlets performing the functions of a foreign agent: “Medusa”; "Voice of America"; "Realities"; "Present time"; "Radio Freedom"; Ponomarev; Savitskaya; Markelov; Kamalyagin; Apakhonchich; Makarevich; Dud; Gordon; Zhdanov; Medvedev; Fedorov; "Owl"; "Alliance of Doctors"; "RKK" "Levada Center"; "Memorial"; "Voice"; "Person and law"; "Rain"; "Mediazone"; "Deutsche Welle"; QMS "Caucasian Knot"; "Insider"; "New Newspaper"