It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
The new "Active Denial System" shoots electronic waves at people, instantly heating their skin to a temperature of 54C.
When the ray is fired, the targeted people are subjected to the feeling of standing in front of an open fire and instinctively run away, the Globe and Mail reports.
The military has not commented on whether the device could be altered so that it could burn crowds en masse or whether heating a crowd may incite mass panic.
Originally posted by mr10k
I think the only good thing we get in this era are the mass of new technologies that we should have gotten decades ago. That being said, I would be appalled if this was actually considered ethical to use.
Originally posted by chr0naut
reply to post by Sablicious
Even if this microwave weapon cooked people alive (which it does not have the power output to do), it doesn't disintegrate (break them apart into tiny bits).
Please change the title to Death Ray: Already a reality?
reply to post by chr0naut
Even if this microwave weapon cooked people alive (which it does not have the power output to do), it doesn't disintegrate (break them apart into tiny bits).
Please change the title to Death Ray: Already a reality?
Originally posted by cavtrooper7
To disintegrate a target of matter you would need a Disruptor to break apart the molecular bonds....not a girly Phaser.