mOOkie
July 27th, 2002, 03:42 PM
<i><b>Pain-Ray Cannon (Directed-energy Weapon)
The United States Marine Corps, and the Air Force have jointly developed a new large-scale directed-energy weapon that fires a burst of non-lethal but intensely painful microwave energy.
How painful you ask? Imagine having the skin, all over your body (because clothing offers no protection) suddenly scalded to a depth of 1/64 of an inch . . . ouch!! While the ray is said to cause no permanent harm, the instant pain is severe enough to cause an enemy (or folks engaged in civil unrest) to drop everything they are doing and run the other way. Once a person is out of range, the pain stops and they're pretty much unharmed.
With a range of about a half mile or so, the "Pain Ray" can reach beyond the "effective" range of shoulder-fired small arms, making the Pain-Ray Cannon an ideal military weapon for enforcing "area denial" that is, taking control of an area (denying the enemy use) while avoiding the use of lethal force.
Interestingly, the "Pain-Ray Cannon" can also be used to burn up the electronics of the enemy's battlefield assets such as, the ignition systems of military vehicles, computers and communications gear. It's likely that the military will mount this directed-energy weapon in a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) to do this type of work, because it could fly very close to enemy lines with out endangering our troops, but wreaking havoc with the enemy's assets.
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The United States Marine Corps, and the Air Force have jointly developed a new large-scale directed-energy weapon that fires a burst of non-lethal but intensely painful microwave energy.
How painful you ask? Imagine having the skin, all over your body (because clothing offers no protection) suddenly scalded to a depth of 1/64 of an inch . . . ouch!! While the ray is said to cause no permanent harm, the instant pain is severe enough to cause an enemy (or folks engaged in civil unrest) to drop everything they are doing and run the other way. Once a person is out of range, the pain stops and they're pretty much unharmed.
With a range of about a half mile or so, the "Pain Ray" can reach beyond the "effective" range of shoulder-fired small arms, making the Pain-Ray Cannon an ideal military weapon for enforcing "area denial" that is, taking control of an area (denying the enemy use) while avoiding the use of lethal force.
Interestingly, the "Pain-Ray Cannon" can also be used to burn up the electronics of the enemy's battlefield assets such as, the ignition systems of military vehicles, computers and communications gear. It's likely that the military will mount this directed-energy weapon in a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) to do this type of work, because it could fly very close to enemy lines with out endangering our troops, but wreaking havoc with the enemy's assets.
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