MOVIE: "Leave the World Behind" Depicts Disastrous Effects of a Attack By Microwave Weapons Via Satellites , GREAT MOVIE: "Leave the World Behind" keeps you guessing right up to to the end, frighting when you realize that all of this could one day be a real time scenario with microwave weapons. In 2011 the Air Force funded an advanced technology development project called Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Missile Project (CHAMP), which involved putting a high-power microwave weapon in a cruise missile. A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices. China, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, India, and Pakistan are also developing military-grade directed-energy weapons, while Iran and Turk...