New "Non-Lethal" Weapon Certified For Use In Iraq

[Jcrowley]

Say Hello to the Goodbye Weapon

The crowd is getting ugly. Soldiers roll up in a Hummer. Suddenly, the whole right half of your body is screaming in agony. You feel like you've been dipped in molten lava. You almost faint from shock and pain, but instead you stumble backwards -- and then start running. To your surprise, everyone else is running too. In a few seconds, the street is completely empty.

You've just been hit with a new nonlethal weapon that has been certified for use in Iraq -- even though critics argue there may be unforeseen effects. According to documents obtained for Wired News under federal sunshine laws, the Air Force's Active Denial System, or ADS, has been certified safe after lengthy tests by military scientists in the lab and in war games.

The ADS shoots a beam of millimeters waves, which are longer in wavelength than x-rays but shorter than microwaves -- 94 GHz (= 3 mm wavelength) compared to 2.45 GHz (= 12 cm wavelength) in a standard microwave oven.

The longer waves are thought to limit the effects of the radiation. If used properly, ADS will produce no lasting adverse affects, the military argues. Documents acquired for Wired News using the Freedom of Information Act claim that most of the radiation (83 percent) is instantly absorbed by the top layer of the skin, heating it rapidly.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72134-0.html

[MUAD_DIB]

1. How long before people start firing

back at the grunts that are trying to fry their asses?

[k-robjoe]

2. Must see

Here is a must see interview. It also gets into the use of these weapons in Iraq :

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2497840938718341112&q=manchurian

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. This rings some bells for some reason

I recall seeing something a couple of years or so ago about a non-lethal device being tested. It used some sort of microwave, IIRC. At the time, the discussion was pooh-poohed as being science fiction malarky.

[jpwhite]

4. not a bad idea, hope it works

I think this may be a step in the right direction. If this is just for riot control, then it might work. However, let's see what happens once it is implemented. I hope this can work. We have to be willing to try new things in Iraq. Maybe this will work. I do know what we are doing now isn't working.

James
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[Jcrowley]

5. Leaving someone elses house

after you entered it illegally and killed many of it's inhabitants and broke all the furniture would work. Acknowledging that would be a step in the right direction. Willing to try new ways off maiming people is not exactly a progressive position nor a way to win hearts and minds which we all know was never the intent.

[enuffs_enuffs]

6. Not a bad idea if...

blowing their e'ffin heads off doesn't? We should have NEVER went there in the first place. AND to treat people such as this will only bring more violence on our soldiers... by more Iraqis.

Seriously, we need to get the fuck OUT now!