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Counter-electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project

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CHAMP
Typecounter-electronics directed energy weapon
Place of originUnited States

The Counter-electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) is a joint concept technology demonstration led by the Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland AFB to develop an air launched directed-energy weapon capable of incapacitating or damaging electronic systems.[1]

On October 22, 2012, Boeing announced a successful test of the missile.[2] CHAMP took out seven different targets before self-destructing over empty desert.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Fulghum, David. "Leave Them Sitting In Silence, In The Dark". Aviation Week. Retrieved 2009-03-04.
  2. ^ "Non-kinetic Missile Records 1st Operational Test Flight". Boeing. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
  3. ^ http://www.businessinsider.com/beoings-counter-electronics-high-power-microwave-advanced-missile-project-2012-10?0=defense
  4. ^ http://killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/22/boeings_flying_blackout