Ping!
They need to test this thing on hopped up crackheads to see what happens.
If they turn up the volume a bit, it could melt people in their tracks. I’m sure this technology is already available, as are a number of other “black” programs and weapons most people have never heard of.
It is important that the US keep a technological edge on these kind of weapons and we have the right judgement when and when not to use them.
I wonder how easy it is to defeat this with some kind of shielding. I once evaluated a new technology for inactivating bioweapons. The device cost a hundred thousand dollars but could be defeated with 2 cents worth of a common household material. As you can imagine the inventors weren’t too happy.
Project X
Project X, a.k.a. Project Xylophone, is an invention of the scientists at the State Science Institute, requiring tons of Rearden metal. It is a sonic weapon, capable of destroying everything in a 300-mile radius. The scientists claim that the project will be used to preserve peace and quash rebellion. The mechanism is destroyed towards the end of the book, and emits a sonic pulse that destroys everything in the surrounding area, including Cuffy Meigs and Dr. Stadler, as well as the Taggart Bridge.
"Back in the 60s I developed a weather-changing- machine, which was an essence to sophisticated heat-beam, which we called a 'laser'."
Just a thought.
I am told not to call it a ray-gun, though that is precisely what it is...
Would you prefer we call it RayBan?
Too bad we will never use it in combat.
Horrible side effect - look what it did that man’s fingernails.
Who is conducting this "battle?" How would this weapon prevent the author's dissent? Paranoid.
Considering how Muslims use women and children as human shields, this could be useful in persuading the shields that maybe they don’t want the job
“It is a bit like touching a red-hot wire, but there is no heat, only the sensation of heat. There is no burn mark or blister.”
The perfect weapon for someone who doesn’t want evidence left at the scene of the crime.
ping
You can run, but you'll just die fried.
A Faraday Cage would defeat it. Picture a suit of chainmail with links the size of the metal mesh in a microwave oven door. You’d need to ground it.
Another way to defeat it would be through mental conditioning. You get a device and deliberately subject your men to it, teaching them to use meditation and other forms of self-hypnosis to ignore the pain. You start with a ten second exposure; when you men can take ten seconds, you give them fifteen; when they can stand fifteen, up it to twenty; and so forth.
A corner reflector held up in front of one of these things would also have interesting effects.