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Electromagnetic pulse weapon

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"For the last few years, the creative minds of Hollywood had seemingly outpaced the reality of technological and scientific advances in the weapons field. But no longer. Stepping out of the realm of science fiction and into reality is the joint U.S. Air Force and Boeing electromagnetic pulse weapon, capable of targeting and destroying electrical systems without the collateral damage often associated with traditional firepower. As Don Cheadle noted in the ever-relevant Ocean’s 11, this new weapon “is a bomb — but without the bomb.”

Known as the “CHAMP,” or Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project, the American military project is an attempt to develop a device with all the power of a nuclear weapon but without the death and destruction to people and infrastructure that such a weapon causes. Theoretically, the new missile system would pinpoint buildings and knock out their electrical grids, plunging the target into darkness and general disconnectedness.

The project has been in the works for a few years now, and has met with significant success in preliminary trials. In 2012, it was reported that a CHAMP mission in Utah managed to hit and subsequently disable seven separate targets in one mission, demonstrating its accuracy and precision. Indeed, it is this capacity to target individual buildings and not cities at large that makes the new weapon so effective, as it would allow military members to cut off electricity supplies to enemy parties while keeping civilians out of the melee.

According to Air Force Research Laboratory commander Major General Tom Masiello, CHAMP is “an operational system already in our tactical air force.” While it appears that the Laboratory has only commissioned five such devices with Boeing, with the Air Force’s recent confirmation of the weapon’s existence, there may be more in the works in the future.

Military forces have been actively developing next-generation weapons that take warfare well beyond the guns and rockets that populate modern arsenals. Lasers have been a key area of advancement: Lockheed Martin test fired a laser weapon in March that took out a truck engine from a mile away, while the Navy deployed a Laser Weapon System (LaWS for short) on a vessel in the Persian Gulf in December.

Next stop, railguns, right?"

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/u...z4YCLhcVlk
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No wonder the Amish have been exploding in number.

The New Future of America: Living Like The Amish
http://www.empattacksurvival.org/the-new...the-amish/

In 1989, the Amish amounted to a measly 100,000 across the whole of the United States. Currently, that figure has more than doubled, with current number placed at 251,000. Mathematical projections put the current figure at 1 million by the year 2050."

How to Survive an EMP Attack
http://nanomagazine.com/darkest-days-rev...-any-good/

"Professor Green spent two years living with Amish, the religious group, who have shunned all modern comforts and maintain a traditional way of life that goes back 300 years. He learned to survive a post-EMP world by learning the secrets of the Amish way of life. In particular, he learned how keep food from spoiling without a fridge, and a secret Amish use to store heat-sensitive medicine. Seeing a massive opportunity to teach live-saving survival techniques, Deacon and Green teamed up with a survival guide that incorporated everything Green learned from his time with the Amish."
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