[InterceptPoint]

the Active Denial microwave weapon can sweep across a rampaging mob and force its members to flee by heating their skin.

I'm sure it will but it is not possible to heat skin and not penetrate the body. This weapon is simply a Microwave Oven without the enclosure. Brain cells will be affected. The likelihood that the "victims" will have a significant increase in their long term probability of contracting skin cancer and/or suffering brain damage is very very high.

I think the tree hugger and anti-war types will be all over this one like a wet towel. Good weapon but almost certainly bad PR.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Maybe they'd test some of those new microwave pork rinds I've heard about...

[freepy smurf]

I'm sure they won't have the knob turned up all the way to "Pot Roast". Shouldn't we test it first, like on the IRS (to save embarrassment). Since we're talking appliances, a really big potato masher might be an effective deterrent too.