Champ: The missile that fries military technology and kills computers, but not people

Champ, which stands for the Counter-electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project, is a missile built to fry computers using high-power microwaves.

Its aim is to render an enemy's military capabilities virtually useless without causing any fatalities.

Champ is understood to have been built by Boeing's Phantom Works, the advanced prototyping arm of the defence and security side of Boeing, after initially being developed by the US Air Force Research Laboratory.

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Although little has been seen of this weapon, it is understood to be fitted in an air-launched cruise missile and delivered by a B-52 bomber.

Once in enemy airspace, the missile stays low and emits pulses of high-power microwave energy aimed at specific targets to disable critical electronic equipment.

Impressively though, it manages to fry the electronics without causing the damage that an explosive might.

It is unclear where the US is fielding this weapon or who it might have shared the technology with.