US unveils heat ray weapon

[vtec4life]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/worldview/us-military-unveils-heat-ray-weapon-youre-gonna-feel-it/article2367636/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Home&utm_content=2367636

In the ‘War of the Worlds’ the Martians used them to incinerate pesky humans more than a century ago.

The Pentagon plans are more modest: crowd control of pesky humans.

Still, after more than a century, the ‘heat ray’ has made the leap from fiction to reality with the U.S. military demonstrating the so-called ‘goodbye effect’ of directing electromagnetic waves at people.



What do you think?

[ZenOps]

I'm pretty sure this has been around for decades.

Like when they had rashes of those millionaires (back when millions were actually a lot of money) who would spontaneously combust on their lawns.

Conspiracy theorists always suspected a directed energy weapon of some sort, but as always - at the time there was no way to prove it.

[n1zm0]

the heat thing works but why not just burn a hole through something instead?

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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/video-navy-laser-sets-ship-on-fire/

[Strider]

Gizmodo: I Got Blasted By the Pentagon’s Pain Ray—Twice (http://gizmodo.com/5892411/i-got-blasted-by-the-pentagons-pain-raytwice)

[vtec4life]

Hmmmm.... Zen Ops any references?

[ZenOps]

Originally posted by vtec4life
Hmmmm.... Zen Ops any references?

You can probably google it yourself "Spontaneous combustion".

There was a whole period where it seemed that every two or three weeks some "important" person was just burning up. Religious people were afraid it was the rapture.

I'm getting a little leery of googling things myself nowadays, so go ahead and search on it.

[Feruk]

Scary stuff. Imagine them using this on peaceful protests. Me no like.

[mark4091]

It would be interesting to see the system that's needed in each truck.

[GorG]

S3 Arctic Spyder III - handheld laser :D (hopefully light sabers are only a few decades away)

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[Xtrema]

Rail > Ray

http://news.yahoo.com/navy-railgun-tests-leading-ship-superweapon-2020-201003095.html

[clem24]

Hmm.. So how long until we see hand held Chinese knock offs? One of these would look great next to my cigarette lighter stun gun.

[broken_legs]

active denial has been a "just released heat ray" in the news for the last 8 years.

old news. Scary as hell. but old news.