U.S. develops yet another tool for abusing civilians... · 26.01.07 by colin newell
The US military has given the first public display of what it says is a revolutionary heat-ray weapon to repel enemies or disperse hostile crowds.
Called the Active Denial System, it projects an invisible high energy beam that produces a sudden burning feeling.
Military officials, who say the gun is harmless, believe it could be used as a non-lethal way of making enemies surrender their weapons.
Officials said there was wide-ranging military interest in the technology.
Heat energy up to 54C (130F) penetrates less than 0.5mm of skin
Manufacturers say this avoids injury, although long-term effects are not known… link
Ok. Here is the deal. I worked with a variety of microwave transmitting systems* (for the Canadian Federal Government) for about 4 years. The hazards of heating from microwave radiation are well known and published widely.
This kind of radiation damages your eyes and it can damage your D.N.A.
Anything AND I MEAN ANYTHING that the U.S. military says about this system is utter bull$hit.
For the record, I am a federally and provincially certified journeyman electronics and telecommunications technician fully qualified to operate, design and rebuild all manner of high power transmitting and receiving equipment.
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There should be no commas in that headline. You have a real problem with punctuation, don’t you?
— Grammar A-hole Jan 29, 09:23 pm #
also, it should be fairly easily defeataable with fine wire meshes acting as Farady cages so only those that don’t know or can’t get this (ie civilians) would find this a problem.
— BillCinSD Jan 30, 11:02 am #
yup. I am a moron… no question
— colin (the editor) Jan 30, 01:15 pm #
To heck with Faraday cages, how about a retro-reflector (like the geometry of a regular light reflector; carefully angled peaks and valleys bounce the radiation right back at its transmitter).
— dr2chase Jan 31, 06:59 am #