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MAHEM disappeared from the public radar.
    There is little information available, just a few tantalizing mentions in Pentagon documents of how the technology is coming along. A look at the Small Business Administration’s SBIR program—Small Business Innovation Research, reveals contract funding for several MAHEM related projects. One research project is investigating a dial-a-yield warhead that could be set to any blast level as needed. Another is a contract for the Novel Light-weight Warhead for Breaching and Destroying Hardened Structures — a shoulder-launched bunker-buster that was completed last year. The latest version is the Electromagnetic Explosive Warhead (EMEW), a MAHEM warhead for the US Army's Organic Precision Munitions program, which includes portable lethal drones. According to SBIR.com, EMEW provides augmented explosion, selectable fragmentation, and controlled blast . The pattern and direction of the effects are controllable enabling it to produce a blast wave with no fragments, like a giant stun grenade, to achieve non-lethal effects. The non-lethal effects comport with the Obama administration’s stated rules of engagement.
    It is difficult to find information online about MAHEM. DARPA representatives claim their MAHEM program ended by 2013. Some online sources indicate the development is now under the auspices of the Army Research Laboratory. The veil of secrecy by the Pentagon looks like an attempt to prevent any technical details of MAHEM from getting out. The Pentagon may have underestimated the ability of the Chinese to conduct cyber research , with that term used loosely.
    One source revealed a research document entitled, Physical Modeling of Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition and Detonation Control . The study was undertaken by the ministerial key laboratory at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions of education in China. The researchers describe, in some detail, how MAHEM works. This information appears to be based on the reverse-engineering of MAHEM by the Chinese scientists.
    China is by far the world's largest producer of commercial drones, selling over a half a million this year, including popular models like the Phantom III. It is a small step from there to building small military drones, and MAHEM could take the striking power of small drones to another level.
    If Pentagon watchers are accurate, MAHEM will be more effective than existing anti-tank weaponry while also being deadly against other targets, including small buildings, armed pick-up trucks, and electronics targeted by drone strikes.
     
    CHAMP by Boeing

     
    A recent weapons flight test in the Utah desert may change future warfare after the missile successfully defeated electronic targets with little to no collateral damage.
    Boeing and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory situated at Kirtland Air Force Base, in New Mexico, successfully tested the Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project — CHAMP , during a flight over the Utah Test and Training Range.
    CHAMP, which renders electronic targets useless via an electromagnetic pulse, is a non-kinetic alternative to traditional explosive.
    During the test, the CHAMP missile navigated a pre-programmed flight plan and emitted bursts of high-powered energy, effectively knocking out the target's data and electronic subsystems. CHAMP allows for selective high-frequency radio wave strikes against numerous targets during a single mission.
    "This technology marks a new era in modern-day warfare," said Keith Coleman, CHAMP program manager for Boeing Phantom Works. "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."
    The action of the high-power microwave had the same effect as an electromagnetic pulse. A cruise missile, which was launched from a U.S. bomber, was pre-programmed to fly over a