Boeings new weapon CHAMP - lights out

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Just a simple fly over by unmanned drone.

    Watch this and think..."taking Iran Nuclear lab off line" etc.

    CHAMP - lights out (Video)

http://www.boeing.com/Features/2012/10/bds_champ_10_22_12.html

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Interesting though that the camera viewing the test computers didn’t fail. That means the weapon can be defeated somehow, or perhaps they were using an mechanical film camera. Cool concept of course.

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The camera failed. They say so in the interview that they knocked everything out including their cameras recording it.

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Then why are we still able to see what’s happening via that camera after the computers fail?

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That’s what I was thinking when he says in video that the cameras failed…when? I saw them continue to work while the computers were affected.

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Simulation.

“One man with courage makes a majority.”

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Good question. Someone commented that even the cameras went out but the video sure looked like it was working as it recorded the computers going out.

I image lead shielding could protect against the energy beam but its not practical to line an entire building in lead.

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It goes black after the last monitor dies, which is in the right hand side closest to the camera at the end. Then they cut back to the interviews.

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Kinda scary tech, although when it popped open the CDROM drive and the disc flew out, that was kind of cool.

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The cruise missile they fly the thing in seems to withstand it alright.

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It’s probably directional.

My question is about power. It takes a lot of juice to produce a crippling burst like that. How many “rounds” does that thing have in it?

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Seems to be a flying equivalent of putting an RFID or any other electronic device into a microwave. By its name ill wager it uses a directional microwave antenna like those used in communications to focus an energy beam at the target. Cool concept and by the looks of things it can do wonders against commercial unprotected systems. Will make it useful against insurgents and the like. They’ll have to up the game to tackle hardened networks though.

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Pentagon|Boeing will contract it’s manufacturing with a company that farms it out to China, and then the whole world will have these to use against us.

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Did anyone else realize that this is similar to the weapon used in the plot of the new Red Dawn movie?

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For those of us (at least me) who didn’t see the new RedDawn, please tell us about it.

Thanks

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Assuming you’re not being sarcastic about a plot spoiler (which it really isn’t much of one), North Korea invades the US. Of course, it’s pretty much laughable until they reveal that they had some sort of directed energy weapon that takes all communication relays (and most electronic devices) offline. It’s a implied it’s similar to this weapon, where they can target key areas without the need for a nuclear blast-generated EMP.

It’s not shown in the movie, it’s just revealed as the weapon that made the plot of the movie possible.

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Thanks and I wasn’t being sarcastic.