New weapon can be used to specifically de-energizing of the building in gostosasjana area of the city.

In a research laboratory U.S. air force (AFRL) developed a pulsed electromagnetic weapon that can also display electronics of the enemy out of action, according to The Motley Fool.

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a New weapon created on the basis of plant CHAMP, created in the second half of the 2000s. in Addition to the laboratories of the U.S. air force on electromagnetic weapons were given to American companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.

in a Joint effort, they established a powerful magnetron emitting microwaves, which in its effect is comparable with electromagnetic explosion, but unlike the latter displays electronics failure locally. Therefore, AFRL created a weapon you can use to switch a particular building in gostosasjana area of the city.



as a carrier of this weapon were selected missiles AGM-158 JASSM-ER of class "air-surface". During the test trials, which were conducted in 2012 in Utah, a rocket could not only shut down a selected building, but also to de-energize a dozen computers in one room of the house.

All in one flight was purposefully de-energized seven houses.New pulsed electromagnetic weapons the U.S. air force plan to adopt before the end of 2016.

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