Counter-electronics High

Power Microwave
Advanced Missile Project
(CHAMP) CHAMP OF
MODERN WARFARE

INTRODUCTION
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 Air Force Base to develop an airlaunched directed-energy
weapon capable
of
incapacitating or damaging electronic systems.

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

PROGRESS
The U.S. Air Force expects to have technology for a steerable counterelectronics weapon available in 2016, when a multi-shot, multi-target,
high-power microwave (HPM) package will be tested aboard an AGM-86
ALCM.
By the mid-2020s, HPM weapons are expected to be integrated onto a
"JASSM-ER-type weapon," and on small reusable platforms like the F-35
Lightning II and unmanned aerial vehicles.
HPM weapons are not yet a program of record, but they are desired in
situations where one target building needs to be engaged and shut
down, while not affecting the buildings around it. Other potential
improvements could include increasing autonomy and putting it
on hypersonic missiles.

REFERENCES
http://
breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2012/10/champ-missile.jpg
http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/CHAMP.jpg
http://www.digitaljournal.com/img/2/0/7/2/0/i/1/2/9/o/champ_cruise_missile.jpg
http://images.gizmag.com/hero/champ-missile.jpg
http://
breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2012/10/champmicrowaveatt
ack.jpg
http://www.boeing.com/Features/2012/10/img/bds_champ1_300.jpg
http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-electronics_High_Power_Microwave_Advanced_
Missile_Project
http://www.boeing.com/Features/2012/10/bds_champ_10_22_12.html

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