In the United States created a rocket against computers
Fantasy intrudes into the realm, sometimes with fanfare and trumpets, and sometimes somehow completely unnoticed, although the appearance of some things changes or can change the picture of the world rather radically.The division of Boeing Phantom works on the Pentagon’s order for the last four years has been involved in the CHAMP project or The Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project, which can be translated roughly as “Advanced Megaracket with High Voltage Microwave”. Testing took place a few days ago, and, according to the developers, CHAMP is ready for labor, defense and attack.
Working sample weapons released at a test site in Utah. Rocket was supposed to hit electronics in several buildings with directed microwave radiation. As a result, all computers, control and communication systems were burned out, even the camera recording the test results was disabled. This attack had no effect on anything else at all.
Hardly holding back the jubilation, Kate Coleman from Boeing said: "We hit all the goals that were going, today we turned science fiction into a scientific fact." Below is a video with graphics, developer interviews and test footage:
Actually, first of all, these weapons are planned to be used against modern super-complex passive radars. They are used by Russia and China, and many other countries. Unlike active radar, passive mark the object without giving out its presence at long distances. They allow you to quite effectively detect American stealth fighters, even the latest insanely expensive F-35. However, a volley of microwaves from CHAMP can easily disable the detection system without causing harm to anyone.
This, of course, is not a radio-electronic bomb, but already close. The highly human weapon of the future will allow to crush the enemy without victims and destructions. After all, almost all modern weapons work on chips and chips. And really enough to burn all the electronics in Iran, to drive it, if not in the stone age, then back to the middle of the twentieth, and more, in general, and not necessary.
We, by the way, were also going to do something similar, but, apparently, have not yet succeeded.
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