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Boeing Successfully Tests Microwave Missile That Takes Out Electronic Targets

Submitted by emalvini on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 14:12
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Boeing Successfully Tests Microwave Missile That Takes Out Electronic Targets

(CBS) St. Louis
October 25, 2012 8:57 AM

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (CBS St. Louis) — Boeing successfully tests a new missile that can take out electronic targets with little collateral damage.

The aerospace company tested the microwave missile last week on a two-story building on the Utah Test and Training Range where computers and electronic systems were turned on to gauge the effects of the missile’s radio waves, according to a Boeing press release.

The missile, known as CHAMP (Counter-electronics High-powered Advanced Missile Project), fired a burst of High Powered Microwaves at the building, successfully knocking out the electronic systems and computers, and even taking out the television cameras recording the test.

Read more: http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2012/10/25/boeing-successfully-t...

UPDATE: New Boeing missile disables computers

Reported by David Farrell
Thursday, October 25 2012 12:02 am

Boeing has created a new missile that is able to disable computer systems as it passes overhead. The CHAMP missile, as it's called, may mark a shift in non-lethal warfare.

Read more: http://vr-zone.com/articles/new-boeing-missile-disables-comp...


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ytc's picture

Woooow, all these gadgets to keep us SAFE and

Submitted by ytc on Fri, 10/26/2012 - 15:02.

happy?!? I sure hope they don't disable OUR computer systems, so that we can keep on learning about what wonderful things our govmnt is preparing for us. With OUR tax money.

bumping--

Submitted by 1988vote on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 16:56.

bookmarking.

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it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--

And everyone just walking by eating a bag of chips

Submitted by entropypressStAt on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 14:37.

gets cancer and has to bankrupt themselves and their families for the prescribed treatment so that they can save their pathetic lives.

Its win-win as far as I can tell!

(I'm being facetious here)

aND

Submitted by Pdubya on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 14:23.

A properly re-engineered microwave oven can be targeted against drones to take them down.

I like your idea better!

Submitted by ronpaul1fan on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 14:35.

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What if....

Submitted by ronpaul1fan on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 14:20.

one of theses babies makes a fly-by down Wall Street...Here comes the stock market/banking crash.

emalvini's picture

Thought Provoking..

Submitted by emalvini on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 16:45.

Now that's something to consider...Ha!