Attention peoples working for Peace and Standing Tall to let the Voicless be heard and obtain rights.....
The Heat Ray has been rolled out and into action.
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US unveils heat-ray weapon

Jim Wolf, Moody Air Force Base, Georgia
January 26, 2007

THE US Defence Department has unveiled what it called a revolutionary heat-beaming weapon that could be used to control mobs or repel foes in conflicts such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

The so-called Active Denial System creates an intense burning sensation causing people to run for cover, but no lasting harm, officials said.

"This is a breakthrough technology that's going to give our forces a capability they don't now have," said Theodore Barna, an assistant deputy undersecretary of defence for advanced systems and concepts.

"We expect the services to add it to their tool kit. And that could happen as early as 2010."

The weapon, mounted on a Humvee, uses a large rectangular dish antenna to direct an invisible beam towards a target.

It includes a high-voltage power unit and beam-generating equipment and is effective at more than 500 metres.

Existing systems designed not to kill, including bean-bag munitions and rubber bullets, work at little more than "rock-throwing distances", said Colonel Kirk Hymes, director of the Pentagon's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate.

In increasingly complex military operations, the technology provided a much-needed alternative to just going from "shouting to shooting", said Colonel Hymes, who is responsible for the weapon's five-year, $US60 million ($A77 million) advanced development.

Variations of the system could help in peacetime and wartime missions, including crowd control and mob dispersal, checkpoint security and port protection, officials said.

Raytheon Company, which has worked to develop the technology, has built a prototype called Silent Guardian, that it hopes to sell in the United States and abroad.

The weapon, which heats the skin to 54 degrees, was shown off publicly for the first time at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia. The directorate invited reporters to be zapped. At a distance of several football fields, the sensation from the exposure was like a blast from a very hot oven, too painful to bear without scrambling for cover.

The pain ended as soon as the target jumped from the line of fire.


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