US directed energy weapon
p2pnet.net OT News:- America’s Project Sheriff, designed to equip military vehicles in Iraq with “lethal and nonlethal” blasters including a microwave-energy ray gun “that makes targets feel as if their skin is on fire,” has been put back at least until next year.
“It’s a great technology with enormous potential, but I think the environment’s not strong for it,” the Associated Press has James Jay Carafano, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation who blames the military and Congress for not spending enough on getting directed energy to the front, saying.
“The tragedy is that I think it’s exactly the right time for this.”
Why? Because, “When you’re dealing with people whose full intent is to die, you can’t give people a choice of whether to comply,” George Gibbs, a systems engineer for the Marine Expeditionary Rifle Squad Program who oversees directed-energy projects says.
“What I’m looking for is a way to shoot everybody, and they’re all OK.”
The directed-energy part of the project is the Active Denial System developed by Air Force researchers, built by Raytheon and which uses a transmitter to fire a narrow beam, says GlobalSecurity.org, going on:
“Traveling at the speed of light, the … 95-GHz energy penetrates 1/64 inch into the skin and produces an intense burning sensation that stops when the transmitter is switched off or when the individual moves out of the beam.” And “according to reports, a 2-second burst from the system can heat the skin to a temperature of 130° F.”
The energy beam “does not cause injury because of the low energy levels used,” says the story. “It exploits a natural defense mechanism that helps to protect the human body from damage.”
But American tax dollars at work ensure other sci-fi weapons are being developed, including a separate branch of directed-energy research” that “involves bigger, badder beams: lasers” that could “obliterate targets tens of miles away from ships or planes” and which would be “so surgical that, as some designers put it at a recent conference here, the military could plausibly deny responsibility,” says AP.
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See:-
Associated Press – Military’s energy-beam weapons delayed, July 9, 2005
GlobalSecurity.org – Vehicle-Mounted Active Denial System (V-MADS)
July 10th, 2005 at 4:15 pm
expect to see this being used against lawfully protesting civilians by ski-masked police at the next RNC (Republican National Converntion).
they already used sonar weapons against protesters at the convention in NYC, so this is a logical step for these pea-brained masked torturers who don’t have the courage to show their criminal faces or wear any type of badge or ID cards.
July 10th, 2005 at 4:26 pm
Expect to see it used at ANY civil disturbance.
July 10th, 2005 at 8:43 pm
Another American innovation!
Sad, sad day for conscience objectors everywhere.
July 10th, 2005 at 10:44 pm
How can it even be legal? If anyone but america invents some new weapon that is going to cause them problems, they invade. Yet the US are permitted to invent weapons that are nothing less than barbaric and it is ok???
Alexander Hanff
July 10th, 2005 at 11:29 pm
Pussys….
July 11th, 2005 at 1:14 am
Thats how they do it.
July 11th, 2005 at 1:50 am
If it does that to your skin, what happens if it manages to catch your eyes.
July 11th, 2005 at 4:15 am
It is very possible that this very beam can be deflected by a thin layer of aluminum foil.
Maybe the tin foil hat type people may be on to something
I know foil deflects many different frequencies of microwaves.
Personally, I believe that if this is used on peaceful demonstrators, then the demonstrators have a right to fight back with BULLETS!!! Eye damaging laser diodes can be easily obtained by civilians. If the governments want to escalate technology against civilians, then civilians should do the same.
July 11th, 2005 at 5:30 am
Well DUH! Don’t be a left-wing plebe and you’ll be ok. Use your mind to make $$ and vote for the PROPER candidates. Then you’ll be laughing at the idiots with the bacon-fried skin squirming all over while you sip pina colada and margaritas.
July 11th, 2005 at 5:33 am
Ya, shoot things at law enforcement. Sounds like a great way to get shot back, with deadly force.
I believe the term is “involuntary suicide.”
Use yer head. Advising people to attack police and the like, is pretty much putting you in a legal bind. It’s called inducement, and probably falls under some law like treason, etc.
Have a nice day.
July 11th, 2005 at 6:43 am
Spoken like a true boot-licker.
Better play by the rules right? Because the enemy always does, right?
Moron.
Rights are not something given to you by your gov’t, they are something a free individual TAKES if they are bold enough.
July 11th, 2005 at 8:26 am
It’s just another, quicker way for the US military to “toast” their allies….
July 11th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
I read about this a couple of years ago in Popular Science.
July 11th, 2005 at 7:04 pm
“I read about this a couple of years ago in Popular Science.”
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isn’t that special.
July 11th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
Spoken like a true Fascist! I assume you were joking, of course…
July 12th, 2005 at 3:57 am
Probably not. It never ceases to amaze me, but there are actually people who THINK LIKE THAT, and I don’t mean a few handful, but a significant number. Heck, my supervisor for a past job, has “no compassion”, shit man, the dude is against helping a fellow human being, even YOUR OWN FAMILY MEMBER!!! And there are people who are PARASITES, they ACTIVELY go out of their way to HURT, MANIPULATE, and CON other people.
Best thing to do, is watch out, report them, stop them, or just plain avoid them.
July 12th, 2005 at 2:39 pm
The governments would like to think they are God, but they are not. The people in the Warsaw Ghetto fought against well trained and well armed German commandos, and they held out for over a month. It is better to die in an “involuntary suicide” than it is to die in a prison or even worse. Besides, maybe the police or government agency may learn a lesson about attacking civilians with high technology.
As far as a legal bind is concerned, let them trace me through this wireless router. I park outside a local business and make my transmission. I do not advise people to attack the police except in self defence. As far as the “treason” is concerned, public officials have been committing that en mass since they have decided to ignore the Constitution.
July 12th, 2005 at 6:18 pm
with my aluminum foil cap!
it deflects alien thought control
so this should be no problem!
July 12th, 2005 at 7:22 pm
Typical crybaby liberal blather about something they obviously have not thought through.
Wahhh! The military is bad! (Except the US military is what keeps those people at bay who would rather you not have the freedom to express yourself).
Wahh! The government spends money trying to hurt people! (Except this is a non-lethal weapon that only induces pain while it is in use, once shut off, the pain disappears–not subsides, not wears away, DISAPPEARS!)
You are the same type of person that refuses to vote because “my one vote doesn’t count” (tell that to Florida Democrats) and would rather just go to a protest rally (which truly accomplishes nothing but makes the people who disagree with you like you even less).
So let me get this straight, shooting people with a gun to get them to comply with the authorities is too barbaric, because it kills them, fine. Oh, a nightstick is too brutal, you can break bones or maim someone. And forget about a Taser, people have had heart attacks after being Tasered! So, we have here a non-lethal, non-injuring, pseaudo-weapon that can render a knife-wielding drug addict or suicide bomber immobile, and we aren’t supposed to use it because it makes him (or her, didn’t mean to be politically incorrect) feel pain temporarily? Give me a break. I guess we should just let him stab a few cops (like my brother) or blow up a school full of kids (like in Russia last year).
Because the criminal or terrorist deserves more mercy than the innocents or those who put themselves in between the bad guys and the rest of us.
Oh yeah, and another thing. If it weren’t for the U.S. military, you wouldn’t have the Internet to post your small-minded ramblings on. Think through your ideas and expand your mind further than your own little piece of the world.
July 12th, 2005 at 7:34 pm
“Lawfully protesting”, as you put it, is a bit of a stretch in the truth. I was there. You have the right to assemble publicly, and a right to speak your mind, share ideas, and verbally try to influence others. You have no right to MAKE people listen to you. Obstructing streets so that traffic must stop in front of you doesn’t qualify. throwing stones and beer bottles at police who are trying to clear safe passage for those entering the convention is NOT lawful. It is a crime. Those who commit crimes are considered CRIMINALS. Criminals are not treated well in any country.
I don’t agree with everything my government does, but it’s worked out well for me. I enjoy lower taxes than most Europeans, and get greater benefits from it. I am given many opportunities, and enjoy freedoms that are unheard of in most countries. I sleep safely at night without fear of a Military, political, or religious faction breaking down my doors and killing my family. I walk down streets with fear of the guy next to me blowing himself up, taking me and 30 other unsuspecting citizens with him.
I appreciate your posting here. Though I dot agree with you, you are voicing you opinion in a constructive way, and I have respect for that. If you want to lay down in traffic however, dot expect my car to stop for you.
Getting back to the subject of Directed Energy Weapons… Those who accuse Americans of being too harsh should welcome this as a sign of our further commitment to non-lethal warfare. Also understand that the immense amount of power these weapons consume will make the prohibitively expensive, and nearly immobile. Soldiers and police wont be carrying these around like hand guns or tasers, (unless they have a 6 megawatt battery hidden up their ass). These are for planned, strategic missions the government considers necessary. When the government considers military action necessary, they will execute the mission using whatever technology and resources are available. Having better technology only enables us to do the job more efficiently, reducing unnecessary casualties, structural damage, etc. I for one look forward to it.
July 12th, 2005 at 11:21 pm
shut up, you fascist neocon pig. go suck on the governator for a while.
July 13th, 2005 at 12:01 am
spoken like the true, neocon fascist pig that you are.
and what’s to stop them placing them on tops of buildings in residential or business districts – or anywhere? NOTHING! now that the supremes has said a the gov’t can seize any land it wants if it believe it to be more valuable to them used as something else. plus, the so-called patriot act allows this type of thing in the name of stopping terrorism and have in effect labeled any/all crimes as acts of terrorism which allows them to use any part of the patriot act they decide fits that definition.
you’re an idiot.
July 13th, 2005 at 8:15 am
No, it’s not.
And neither are you, faggot.
July 15th, 2005 at 4:19 pm
Grow up child.
July 22nd, 2005 at 12:20 am
So, how long have you been in Iraq? Or when are you shipping out?
The girl in Boston killed by police firing ‘harmless’ bullets into the ‘crowd’ was a REAL threat to democracy-
You need some anger managment fool-
February 21st, 2009 at 5:07 pm
I can tell you that the police in Palm Springs are using a smaller version of these things on drug addicts. I don’t know if it’s to make them stop doing drugs or to just push them into someone else’s city to deal with…