[Smokin' Joe]

Microwaves? Chain mail might make a comeback...

[Sequoyah101]

Why are all the principles of this project women? I doubt this thing is very safe to its targets.

[kik5150]

Easily defeated by my tin foil hat and suit.

[zeestephen]

Body armor now optional if soldiers use SPF 30 tanning lotion.

[DemforBush]

I’m reminded a bit of an old story I heard/read about the MiG-25 Foxbat. The Foxbat has an extraordinarily powerful radar system - something like half a megawatt or something. At any rate, the story goes that the power was such that small animals outside the airfield perimeter would be killed whenever the radar was powered up while on the Foxbat was still on the ground.

Don’t know if that story is at all true, but I always thought it was kind of interesting.

[DemforBush]

I’m reminded a bit of an old story I heard/read about the MiG-25 Foxbat. The Foxbat has an extraordinarily powerful radar system - something like half a megawatt or something. At any rate, the story goes that the power was such that small animals outside the airfield perimeter would be killed whenever the radar was powered up while on the Foxbat was still on the ground.

Don’t know if that story is at all true, but I always thought it was kind of interesting.

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[Pecos]

Perhaps it hasn't been used in the field because focusing the beam on an individual target would be hard. Just like you usually aren't successful when duck hunting if you just spray rounds at the flock, you would have to concentrate the beam on an individual target for some length of time to have any meaningful effect.

That is totally aside from the fact that providing non-lethal weapons to the military is a bad idea. Too many people would then second guess the troops as to why they ever have to fire a lethal shot. Non-lethal weapons also put the troops in the position of being policemen. For their safety alone, you can't cross-train a person's reactions to operate cleanly in both lethal and non-lethal tactics.

[PapaBear3625]

I wonder how well a ship-mounted unit would work against a bunch of Iranian speedboats? Could it produce enough heat to ignite C4?

[calex59]

As long as there is no actual damage done to the people it is used against, they can be trained to resist this sort of idiotic weapon. Telling people it is not lethal is just stupid, and for the military to have a “non-lethal” weapon in the first place is even dumber.

[philman_36]

@Evaluation of the Potential Carcinogenicity of Electromagnetic Fields (External Review Draft)
Note: EPA has updated this document, but this version is provided as a courtesy to the public as a matter of public record.

@Electric & Magnetic Fields
Many links.

@Tesla Energy Harmonizers

[martin_fierro]

A sensation of unbearable, sudden heat seems to come out of nowhere

Zap.

[backwoods-engineer]

Paging Mr. Phil Carson, Mr. Phil Carson please come to the Mannville massacre and heat ray, thank you.

Mr. Bracken, your books are frighteningly prescient. You sure you don't got a Delorean with a flux capacitor?

[Moltke]

The effect is so repellant, the immediate instinct is to flee

But in which direction?

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

I wonder what happens when Mr. Heat Ray meets Mr. Corner Reflector?