"active denial system"
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Military shows off new ray gun
By ELLIOTT MINOR, Associated Press Writer
Thu Jan 25, 5:43 AM ET
MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. - The military calls its new weapon an "active denial system," but that's an understatement. It's a ray gun that shoots a beam that makes people feel as if they are about to catch fire.
Apart from causing that terrifying sensation, the technology is supposed to be harmless _ a non-lethal way to get enemies to drop their weapons.
Military officials say it could save the lives of innocent civilians and service members in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
The weapon is not expected to go into production until at least 2010, but all branches of the military have expressed interest in it, officials said.
During the first media demonstration of the weapon Wednesday, airmen fired beams from a large dish antenna mounted atop a Humvee at people pretending to be rioters and acting out other scenarios that U.S. troops might encounter in war zones.
The device's two-man crew located their targets through powerful lenses and fired beams from more than 500 yards away. That is nearly 17 times the range of existing non-lethal weapons, such as rubber bullets.
Anyone hit by the beam immediately jumped out of its path because of the sudden blast of heat throughout the body. While the 130-degree heat was not painful, it was intense enough to make the participants think their clothes were about to ignite.
The weapon could be mounted aboard ships, airplanes and helicopters, and routinely used for security or anti-terrorism operations.
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http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fs%2Fap%2F20070125%2Fap_on_re_us%2Fray_gun_5
I think police forces will end up and working with this "system" more than the army.
think this will cause some long term damage? I mean a beam going into your body, does'nt sound very non-lethal.
Military shows off new ray gun
By ELLIOTT MINOR, Associated Press Writer
Thu Jan 25, 5:43 AM ET
MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. - The military calls its new weapon an "active denial system," but that's an understatement. It's a ray gun that shoots a beam that makes people feel as if they are about to catch fire.
Apart from causing that terrifying sensation, the technology is supposed to be harmless _ a non-lethal way to get enemies to drop their weapons.
Military officials say it could save the lives of innocent civilians and service members in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
The weapon is not expected to go into production until at least 2010, but all branches of the military have expressed interest in it, officials said.
During the first media demonstration of the weapon Wednesday, airmen fired beams from a large dish antenna mounted atop a Humvee at people pretending to be rioters and acting out other scenarios that U.S. troops might encounter in war zones.
The device's two-man crew located their targets through powerful lenses and fired beams from more than 500 yards away. That is nearly 17 times the range of existing non-lethal weapons, such as rubber bullets.
Anyone hit by the beam immediately jumped out of its path because of the sudden blast of heat throughout the body. While the 130-degree heat was not painful, it was intense enough to make the participants think their clothes were about to ignite.
The weapon could be mounted aboard ships, airplanes and helicopters, and routinely used for security or anti-terrorism operations.
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http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fs%2Fap%2F20070125%2Fap_on_re_us%2Fray_gun_5
I think police forces will end up and working with this "system" more than the army.
think this will cause some long term damage? I mean a beam going into your body, does'nt sound very non-lethal.
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"I would rather die on my feet than to live on my knees."
Emiliano Zapata
Imagine!
Well, even someone as smart as einstein could not escape that path.
A friend of mine who was in the Army and served in Iraq, told me about these tanks that shot sabo rounds (sp). I'm not sure what it is about the sabo round, but I guess they would just fire a round right down a street, and the force of the round would suck all the terrorists, insurgents, death squad members, freedom fighters (for the hippie liberal douches) right out of their hidding places in homes on the sides of the streets, and the Army could then just wipe them out. Or if you shot an enemy tank everything that was inside the tank would be sucked out the 6 inch hole left by the round, that would include any human inside the tank.
didn't einstein warn the u.s. of germany being close to the a-bomb because of his fear that if hitler got the bomb first that he would take over the world...for real?
and, about the comment about what that money could have been spent on...YES, EXACTLY! priorities are out of line and we're lining up to find the way down...
from my window to yours
yes, I believe so, I'm pretty sure he also said some time after that it was one of his biggest mistakes, his work on the bomb. (well that and his idea of a cosmological constant)
interesting stuff