The Air Force Research Laboratory has been working with Boeing for several years on the perfection, miniaturization and deployment of its Counter-electronics High-powered Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP), which has already been in the arsenal, but which will become increasingly central to the armed forces.

The U.S. Air Force's confirmation that they and Boeing are developing the Counter-electronics High-powered Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP), an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) weapon, that essentially uses microwave energy to render useless all electronics in its "blast" area without causing structural damage, trended all over the Internet last month

"This technology marks a new era in modern-day warfare," said Keith Coleman, Boeing Phantom Works' CHAMP Program Manager in a Boeing video on the CHAMP test in 2012. "In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy's electronic and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive."