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Shooting Pain: The future of heat-beaming weapons.
Slate ^ | Sat, 17 Feb 2007 | William Saletan

Posted on 02/20/2007 5:08:51 AM PST by PurpleMan

"...We've just invented a weapon that fires a beam of searing pain.

"Three weeks ago, the U.S. armed forces tested it on volunteers at an Air Force base in Georgia. You can watch the video on a military Web site. Three colonels get zapped, along with an Associated Press reporter. The beam is invisible, but its effects are vivid. Two dozen airmen scatter. The AP guy shrieks and bolts out of the target zone. He says it felt like heat all over his body, as though his jacket were on fire.

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