USAF to fit high-power microwave package on JASSM-ER

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has decided that the JASSM-ER missile is the platform to fit the Counter-electronics High-powered microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) payload.

By U.S. Air Force (Department of the Air Force) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

CHAMP allows a warplane to launch a standoff attack on the enemy’s electronics systems with bursts of high-power microwave energy.

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