---
title: "Boeing debuts powerful electromagnetic pulse weapon"
description: "The system is called the Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project, or CHAMP, and is analogous to the EMP version of a sniper rifle, rather than a bomb."
date: "2015-05-27"
modified: "2017-10-14"
authors:
  - name: "Alex Klokus"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/alex-klokus"
url: "https://futurism.com/boeing-debuts-powerful-electromagnetic-pulse-weapon"
categories:
  - "Boeing"
  - "Space"
---

# Boeing debuts powerful electromagnetic pulse weapon

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/EM-vibrations.jpg>)
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- The system draws power from a microwave-emitting generator capable of killing electronics with a much higher accuracy rate. Rather than targeting entire blocks or even cities, the CHAMP targets only specific buildings.
- In addition to its accuracy, it's also got another advantage; it can fire multiple times, unlike previous EMP devices that can only be used once at a time. In theory, the CHAMP could quickly take out several targeted buildings in rapid succession.
- In a single test mission in Utah, CHAMP successfully blacked out all seven of its targets in a single flight. It clearly impressed the U.S. Air Force, as it's apparently already in use in tactical forces.

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexklokus>)