how close does the target have to be and is it an area weapon? cause without a real good waveguide it will hit everybody in X feet of the target and do the same thing no??? how close does the target have to be and is it an area weapon? cause without a real good waveguide it will hit everybody in X feet of the target and do the same thing no???The description in the article makes this sound more like the microwave crowd control weapon being put into service. That creates a sensation of extreme heat on the target and forces him to leave the area ASAP. OTOH, Ralph Peters in a novel The War 2020 posed the idea of a weapon that destroyed the motor control areas of the brain, leaving the victim with his senses but unable to control any voluntary muscle.