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Posted on 03/11/2012 11:07:29 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A sensation of unbearable, sudden heat seems to come out of nowhere -- this wave, a strong electromagnetic beam, is the latest non-lethal weapon unveiled by the US military this week.
"You're not gonna see it, you're not gonna hear it, you're not gonna smell it: you're gonna feel it," explained US Marine Colonel Tracy Taffola, director the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, Marine Corps Base Quantico, at a demonstration for members of the media.
The effect is so repellant, the immediate instinct is to flee -- and quickly, as experienced by AFP at the presentation.
Taffola is quick also to point out the "Active Denial System" beam, while powerful and long-range, some 1000 meters (0.6 miles), is the military's "safest non-lethal capability" that has been developed over 15 years but never used in the field.
It was deployed briefly in Afghanistan in 2010, but never employed in an operation.
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Mr. Bracken, your books are frighteningly prescient. You sure you don't got a Delorean with a flux capacitor?
But in which direction?
I wonder what happens when Mr. Heat Ray meets Mr. Corner Reflector?
I recommend every FReeper read the whole series. So incredibly insightful, and entertaining to boot.
Yep, just in time for domestic use.
Here is my new slogan. If I could put it on a banner or poster, I would:
Obamarules
Losing my freedom was not the change I hoped for.
Countermeasures and counterstrikes.
A lot of typos four years ago.
What came out “Hope and Change” was originally “Hoax and Chains”.
How long until the kinetic change-of-command ceremonies?
Beats me. Next week or next decade.
CMs and CSs? Don’t have any idea how, from my POV.
After heat rays, I’m seeing squadrons of 6’ quadrotors, armed with machineguns, programmed to hunt down and put all hominids in a given sector on the ground, motionless and cooling off.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000283470504
Quadrotors play the James Bond Theme.
microwaves?
lets see,
cancer
sterility
brain damage
blindness from fine bloove vessel bursting
not to mention the tech will be sold to terrorists who will deploy a dirty non directional version.
Imagine a shopping mall full of people which gets locked.
also, would metal shield a person?
microwaves?
lets see,
cancer
sterility
brain damage
blindness from fine bloove vessel bursting
not to mention the tech will be sold to terrorists who will deploy a dirty non directional version.
Imagine a shopping mall full of people which gets locked.
also, would metal shield a person?
WRong quadrotor link, check this one out, and imagine them at 20X scale, armed with MGs, hunting you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_sUeGC-8dyk
Maybe Big Brother will mount heat rays on these at full size. Or maybe, machine guns.
Remember comrades, a police state is a safe state, and if you have nothing to hide, you should not mind an observation visit from a friendly quadrotor.
Aggressive quadrotors, part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-dkonAXOlQ&feature=related
Tactically, no. Strategically, yes. They gotta make them things somewhere. Gotta fly them from somewhere. Gotta maintain them somehow. Gotta fuel them. Gotta communicate with them. The care and feeding of such devices are the strategic weak point.
Those that attack us are humans and we all know if it bleeds you can kill it.
During hostilities, a police state is a target rich environment. :)
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