[BobL]

If you're a Democrat, this is your require response:


THIS MUST BE STOPPED!!! NOW!!! WE CANNOT ALLOW OUR MILITARY TO DEVELOP WEAPONS THAT ACTUALLY LET THEM WIN BATTLES!!!

Pretty sick ideology, if you ask me.

[Joe Hadenuf]

It will likely be in Iraq in the next 12 months.

A crowd control weapon? Are we going to be controlling crowds in Iraq? Or using non lethal weapons against terrorist?

[45semi]

'Turbaned Tater Tots!

hehehe Yeah, I know I'm a sick puppy!

[toddlintown]

Smokin'!

[ThirstyMan]

They should develop something like this to aim at the ground in front of their Humvee to detonate these damned roadside bombs before they get there.

[ozzymandus]

I can't help thinking that a .50 cal M2HB would be a more effective source of "heat".

[ThirstyMan]

They should develop something like this to aim at the ground in front of their Humvees to detonate these damned roadside bombs before they get there.

[Sender]

Maybe if you tape bags of popcorn on your chest, it'll be like reactive armor.

[EGPWS]

The product is expected to be evaluated from February through June to determine whether to equip U.S. forces with it, Colonel David Karcher, director of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, told Bloomberg Business News.

Can they evaluate it by using it on the left side of Congress, or would that be inappropriate?

[kizzdogg]

who has felt the weapon's beam and compares it to having a hot iron placed on the skin

Sure this is non-lethal, but what are you going to do with this kind of heat on you? I think this is pretty cool.

[mad_as_he$$]

FWIW This idea has been around since Viet Nam. I am close friends with an engineer who worked on the project. It used high energy microwaves to deliver about 1 megawatt of RF out of a 6 foot water cooled focused dish. Problem is that it was not mobile and in field testing it exploded anything with water in it out about 500 yards.

This guy swears it was field tested in Nam and since humans were exploding like cats in a microwave the brass didn't think the American public would got for it so the program was shutdown. Also, I believe making it mobile with that power consumption, at that time, would have been impossible. Could of been great for fixed installations though.

[ruiner]

Phrases such as ""focused, speed-of-light millimeter wave energy beam to induce an intolerable heating sensation,'' according to a U.S. Air Force fact sheet." kinda scare me.

I mean honestly, thats from a "fact sheet".

I think its safe to say that the beam is "focused", "speed of light (in a vacuum), and "energy beam". Its pretty damn redundant to say it that way.

The proper phrase is . . . its a "*microwave* beam that burns people" (or whatever type of electromagnetic radiation it consists of.

[VOA]

Wonder if this will be used in the next Bond film...
sort of like the laser beam in "Goldfinger"...

[RandallFlagg]

Phasers on incinerate....

[exDem from Miami]

Great idea! Test it out at the Palace in Auburn Hills...

[pointsal]

Will this melt the gold off the dome of a mosque?
Will it melt minerets like a candle?
Will it make the inside of a house like a convection oven?

[det dweller too]

Heal said the military version would cost about $1 million, and the U.S. military could require many

Ah, how many M16s can you get for $1 million?

[deaconjim]

Wonder what a leather jacket would do for the enemy?

[snopercod]

The speed of heat.

[ChadGore]

" . . . with laser beams?"