Peter1469
12-09-2017, 06:06 AM
Can the Air Force disable North Korean missiles? (http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/07/us/air-force-champ-north-korea-missiles/index.html)
This is a cruise missile with an EMP device on it. The idea is to fire it into enemy territory, use the EMP feature to disable command and control sites and ICBMs. Then the cruise missile can be splashed into the ocean. If this is perfected, we could counter North Korea without loss of life.
Retired Air Force intelligence officer Col. Cedric Leighton went further, saying CHAMP could be a game-changer with North Korea.
"It would be very useful in the Korean theater because it wouldn't require the presence of significant numbers of ground forces," Leighton said. "It wouldn't require Special Operations forces. And it wouldn't require kinetic bombing attacks. ... In essence, what could happen is an attack can occur, and not a single person on the enemy side would lose a life."
Leighton said a CHAMP system could disable a North Korean missile on the launchpad or in flight.
This is a cruise missile with an EMP device on it. The idea is to fire it into enemy territory, use the EMP feature to disable command and control sites and ICBMs. Then the cruise missile can be splashed into the ocean. If this is perfected, we could counter North Korea without loss of life.
Retired Air Force intelligence officer Col. Cedric Leighton went further, saying CHAMP could be a game-changer with North Korea.
"It would be very useful in the Korean theater because it wouldn't require the presence of significant numbers of ground forces," Leighton said. "It wouldn't require Special Operations forces. And it wouldn't require kinetic bombing attacks. ... In essence, what could happen is an attack can occur, and not a single person on the enemy side would lose a life."
Leighton said a CHAMP system could disable a North Korean missile on the launchpad or in flight.