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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A target-rich environment that is in the middle of a bloodbath. I’d prefer not to be there at all, if possible. Heading it off is my concern. Or staying out of its path.
“Heading it off is my concern. Or staying out of its path.”
It has become a freight train and if it goes off there is no safe path.
Well, I hope we are all out of its path.
We’re both now out of the beaten path at least.
I hope so. I’m not a young man anymore, to be running and weaving.
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