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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject: Raygun |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/29/60minutes/main3891865.shtml
The video is a must-see
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It's a gun that doesn't look anything like a gun: it's that flat dish antenna which shoots out a 100,000-watt beam at the speed of light, hitting any thing in its path with an intense blast of heat.
An operator uses a joystick to zero in on a target. Visible only with an infrared camera, the gun, when fired emits a flash of white hot energy - an electromagnetic beam made up of very high frequency radio waves.
Col. Kirk Hymes, head of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, is in charge of the ray gun which is being tested at Moody Air Force Base in southern Georgia.
The targets at the base are people, military volunteers creating a scenario soldiers might encounter in Iraq, like angry protestors advancing on American troops, who have to choose between backing down or opening fire. Off in the distance, half a mile away, the operator of the ray gun has the crowd in his sights.
Unlike the soldiers on the ground, he has no qualms about firing away because his weapon won't injure anyone.
He squeezes off a blast and the first shot hits like an invisible punch. The protestors regroup and he fires again, and again. Finally they�ve had enough. The ray gun drives them away with no harm done.
Officially called the "Active Denial System," it does penetrate the body, but just barely. |
I could see this being used on the protestors in Korea 
[img]http://www.cracked.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/raygun.jpg[/img] |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| I think we need the Japanese to miniaturize it before it's really useful. |
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saw6436
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon, ROK
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:39 am Post subject: |
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| Saw it being demonstrated on Discovery Channel. Its pretty cool. It can be targeted at mobs of people to disperse crowds. It also has the ability to pin-point just a single individual out of a crowd. |
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Kikomom
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:33 am Post subject: |
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Creepy, f*cking DARPA weapons.
Mankind just can't get enough of hurting each other? |
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