The Telegraph is comparing it to a James Bond movie – a ray that makes any electronic devices in range stop working:
Scientists from the UK, Norway, the US, Germany, France and a number of other countries have been working as part of the Nato Science and Technology Organisation to use high powered radio waves and microwaves as non-lethal weapons.
Dr Ernst Krogager, task group chairman of the Nato STO group that has been leading this work, code-named SCI-250, described the new electromagnetic beam in a video released on the Nato website.
He said: “The ignition generates a very high intensity pulse and it will interfere with the electronic control system inside the car so the car will stop.”
The video shows the system being tested in a number of scenarios to defend vehicles and checkpoints from suicide bomb attacks and approaching vehicles.
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The new device has been developed in collaboration with defence company Diehl, which has also been working on high altitude electromagnetic pulse weapons.
Diehl say its “convoy protection” system, which is designed to be portable, can also be used to disable electronic sensors on improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
It states: “Enemy vehicles with electronic motor management can be stopped inconspicuously by mobile and stationary High Power Electro-Magnetics systems.”