Not strictly cyber, but you can see the cyber implications, and this is just too dang cool.
John Reed reported for Foreign Policy on Boeing’s Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project, or CHAMP. CHAMP is a missile that flies over targets and fries all of the electronics below, sorta like an EMP. The article noted an Oct. 16th test that saw the CHAMP fly “an hour-long preprogrammed route low over the Utah desert, ‘degrading and defeating’ the electronics inside seven different targets.” CHAMP will likely see use as a counter to anti-access technology; according to the CHAMP program manager, it will “render an enemy’s electronic and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive.”
CHAMP, via Boeing Media.
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