The US Air Force has quietly deployed missiles that could destroy the electronics of Iran‘s nuclear facilities with high-power microwaves, rendering them useless, without causing any fatalities, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.
Known as the Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP), the missiles were built by Boeing’s Phantom Works for the US Air Force Research Laboratory and first tested successfully in 2012. They were deployed—meaning installed in various locations around the globe—and became operational in 2019.
This comes as Israel has conducted strikes in Iran in retaliation for Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile assault earlier this week, defying US President’s warning that more attacks could plunge the Middle East further into conflict.
Mary Lou Robinson, then chief of the High Power Microwave Division of the Air Force Research Lab at Kirtland Air Force Base, previously confirmed to DailyMail.com that 20 CHAMP missiles were operational and ready to take out any military target, including nuclear facilities.
When asked for comment, Othana Zuch, an Air Force Research Laboratory public affairs officer, said that while ‘operational security precludes us from discussing specific operational applications for our technologies,’ the CHAMP missiles were considered a demonstration program and ‘we have since continued to develop advanced HPEM (High Power Electromagnetic) technologies’ building on the original demonstration.
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