Alright, this weapon might be hard to model and implement, but I'm going to request it anyway because it would make for some very interesting scenarios, and in case it cant be created right now, I will set a baseline here in case you want to implement it when it is easier and there is a more suitable architecture in the game to more correctly represent it. Thank you in advance.
With that being said, the CHAMP, or counter-electronics High-power microwave advanced missile project, has finally entered limited service with the USAF as a contingency weapon. USAF has said that the it has retained a small number of CHAMPs for use in a contingency. Recently, Raytheon has been rewarded a contract to refurb some AGM-86B CALCMs with the CHAMP payload, but with no plans for a flight test. This contract comes right after the USAF was given money from congress to procure a handful of CHAMPs for operational use.
From:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ni-423454/
Speaking to Flightglobal at the Air Warfare Symposium in Florida last month, Air Combat Command chief Gen Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle confirmed that the operational force wants the counter-electronics capability and that some units are being kept as “weapons to use in a contingency”.
From:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ni-423454/
“Our real goal is to take what we learnt in CHAMP and apply it to the next weapon,” he says. “We have kept some, it’s a very small number, so we have some capability with it now. Our intent is to move that to the next weapon, a more advanced weapon, and continue to modernise it.”
From:
http://www.janes.com/article/59048/rayt ... n-contract
Ktech, a division of Raytheon Missile Systems' Advanced Missile Systems business, has received USD4.8 million for the refurbishment of two USAF-provided CALCMs and integration of the upgraded payload developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).....Raytheon's new contract does not, however, contain provisions for flight test.
From:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ni-423454/
The US Air Force has been under pressure from Congress to make use of the technology and has even received extra funding to make a handful of missile available for operational use.
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Uses predictable, directed high-power microwave bursts to disable electronics, with 100 shots per sortie
From:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ni-423454/
Laboratory officials have confirmed that the CHAMP system demonstrated in 2012 was capable of firing up to “100 shots per sortie” to fry military and commercial electronics in a very predictable way.
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The effective range of the bursts is very short, around a mile; The tests had the missile fly directly over the target area.
From:
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-s ... 1705441209
CHAMP, which is a Boeing and Air Force Research Laboratory project, was successfully tested in 2012 aboard a AGM-86 Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile (CALCM). During the test, which occurred over a bombing and testing range in Utah, the CHAMP equipped CALCM flew over a two story building filled with computers and other powered technology and initiated a high-power, directed microwave burst above it as it passed by. The burst knocked out all the equipment inside. The test went on to zap six more targets successfully before the missile crashed itself in a pre-designated area. Other test flights are set to have followed, and even hardened targets were not completely immune to CHAMP’s zapping power.
From:
http://breakingdefense.com/2012/10/new- ... crowave-t/
When CHAMP passed overhead and activated its Raytheon-built microwave emitter, the computers went dark — and, a moment later, so did the camera monitoring the test. “Cheers erupted in the conference room,” Boeing spokesman Randy Jackson wrote in a press release published Monday.
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Currently mounted on a conventional AGM-86B.
AGM-86B ALCM [CHAMP Mod] ?
From:
http://www.janes.com/article/59048/rayt ... n-contract
Raytheon has received a USD10 million US Air Force (USAF) contract for directed energy activities, including integration of the Counter-electronics High-power microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) payload onto the conventional variant of the Boeing AGM-86B air-launched cruise missile (CALCM), company executives told reporters during a 23 March 2016 teleconference.
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Waypointed navigation
From:
http://breakingdefense.com/2012/10/new- ... crowave-t/
That test, which used the same software as the October test, confirmed that the missile could navigate a complex flight path, selectively turning on and off the microwave.
Again, thanks for considering this.
Triode
