Soldiers in the British Army will trial a high-power radio frequency weapon that can knock out an enemy’s electricity and disrupt their military operations without them knowing the cause of the problem.
Under Project Ealing, scientists inside the high-security Porton Down research laboratories have developed a weapon that can in effect switch off devices reliant on electricity such as computers, telephones and drones.
Experts compared the technology to that used in the film Ocean’s Eleven, where con artists use a device called “the pinch” to help them access a vault containing money in Las Vegas.
The device detonates an intense electromagnetic pulse that blacks out the city’s power grid for a brief period. The technology developed by British scientists is designed to switch off
