Posted on 07/17/2010 9:38:46 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The Active Denial System (ADS) is a non-lethal weapon designed to disperse violent crowds and repel enemies.
It uses a focused invisible beam that causes an "intolerable heating sensation", but only penetrates the skin to the equivalent of three sheets of paper.
The discomfort causes whoever it's pointed at to immediately start moving away. They often scream but the US military says the chance of injury from the system is 0.1%.
It's already been tested more than 11,000 times on around 700 volunteers. Even reporters have faced the heat-ray.
Limit deaths
Lt. Col. John Dorrian, a US military spokesperson, says the kit is now in Afghanistan but no decision has yet been made on its use.
There's been much talk about the need to keep civilian casualties in Afghanistan to a minimum. The heat-ray gun could help.
The beam produced by the ADS can travel more than 500m (1,640ft) and is seen as an important new way to limit unnecessary deaths and minimise war zone casualties.
Developers also say it could also be adapted to other operations, like fighting drug smuggling at sea and general peacekeeping operations.
Research is continuing to make the system smaller, lighter and less expensive, says the Pentagon's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
A mirror and a magnifying lens???
Wait a minute. I thought the purpose of going to war was to kill people and break things. That’s the unofficial motto of the US Marine Corps, isn’t it? I thought we were supposed to maximize enemy deaths, not minimize them. What am I missing here?
I was hoping crap cannon would be operational now?
I think it would be pretty cool zapping people.
Looks like a good target for a high powered rifle...hmm
Looks like a good target for a high powered rifle...hmm
The lens seems to be wafer thin.
Can i get one for my morning and afternoon commute?
It’s very obvious. There is no goal here, unless it’s that nonsense about making Afghanistan into a Western style democracy. Fat chance. So, we keep on keeping on in an exercise in futility. Nobody seems to know what is going on or how it will end.
going to war was to kill people and break things
I learned that from Rush and that is why we don’t win wars anymore
A bullet hole won’t do crap to it, unless the emitter is hit, or the optical sensors.
That would be something if they could aim it THAT precisely...
The trend is to fight wars in non-lethal riot control mode, while our domestic police become more and more military like. It’s all one big happy police action under global socialism.
Looks like a good target for a high powered rifle...hmm
Especially when 0bama starts using these things here in the United States.
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See my post # 18.
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