Scalar Weapon

"This is a scalar weapon!"

- Sweetwater

"Beautiful, isn't it?"

- Agent Aguire

A scalar weapon is a massive electromagnetic pulse bomb. It generates EM pulses before "detonating," releasing a massive blast that destroys every piece of electronics in the area, while leaving the epicenter and weapon completely unharmed.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2
A scalar weapon known as the "Black Weapon" first appears as a doomsday device designed by the Japanese in 1944, and was used against an amphibious assault force of US Marines ordered to find and destroy it. The weapon was recovered and then lost after World War II. Preston Marlowe, a member of Bad Company, finds one of the device's lost components in the Sangre del Toro, a shipping freighter bound for Peru that wound up in the Atacama Desert. The weapon is then stolen by Kirilenko, a Russian colonel who takes the component at gun point after he ambushed Bad Company while meeting Aguire. It is later test fired against a large US military force fighting in an unnamed South American City, and flown away in a Russian cargo plane to be detonated over the United States. However, Bad Company managed to enter the airplane and destroy the weapon while the aircraft was in flight over Texas. The EMP threat was nullified, but the incident provided the Russians with a distraction that enabled them to invade America via Alaska.

Appearances

 * Operation Aurora
 * Cold War
 * Sangre Del Toro
 * No One Gets Left Behind
 * Zero Dark Thirty
 * Force Multiplier
 * Airborne

Trivia

 * In the game's opening level, the US Commandos are killed by a tsunami, caused by the Black Weapon. While an EMP device would have left the submarine powerless, it would not be able to create a tsunami wave.
 * Furthermore, no wave was created when the weapon was test fired in South America, despite the fact it was detonated near a large harbour. However, it is possible the weapon has several different modes of fire, from explosion to EMP.