3 simple words......Inverse Square Law.
Makes non coherent energy weapons difficult
at best, impossible under most real world
conditions.
You think thats bad? Remember the last Indiana Jones movie? The Russians were looking for a mass brain wave machine to manipulate and control people.
I heard some time back that it could have been a project with some limited success, and that it was used in America to get Obama elected.
High power microwave weapon research has been carried out since the early 1980s at least.
There is an amusing book by an EE called something like, “How I Turned a Microwave Oven Into a Death Ray”.
He set plywood on fire at 500 feet, IIRC.
Don’t try this at home. The sidelobes and backscatter can fry your brain in seconds.
The voices in the head thing is real too.
Freepers, you must understand that there is an entire hidden world out there with both bad guys and good guys participating. The MSM publishes rumors decades after weapon systems have been fielded.
I think that important people such as Rush should have a bodyguard with an RF detector at their side 24X7.
These things appparently do work. Just look at Hussein’s promise to be “flexible’.