Days after the first news of the military’s new microwave heat ray surfaced we get our first in-depth media reports on the new technology developed to crush protests.
I ended that report with a video clip from an analyst warning that the Army has been put on standby to be mobilized against Occupy Wall Street protestors at any moment.
That article described the a technology in writing and showed a brief heat gun cannon in action.
Now we have our first corporate media reports on Army’s new pain ray gun with more details and the military plans for using the weapon.
That video was embedded on that article titled “Watch a Fox News Reporter Get Zapped by Military’s Wild New ‘Heat Ray’”
The new reports reveal this weapon was developed over 15 years and deployed to Afghanistan in 2010 where it reportedly was never used in an operation while the pentagon is touting the safety of the device saying there has been over 11,000 field exposures to the weapon.
What is highly suspicious is that is now, after 15 years, the pentagon denies purchasing any of these guns yet the there are there are widespread media reports that the military is now unveiling its new crowd control weapon?
From Yahoo News!
See a Fox News Reporter Get Zapped by Military’s Wild New ‘Heat Ray’
The U.S. Military unveiled new technology this week, in the form of a futuristic heat-ray.
“You’re not gonna see it, you’re not gonna hear it, you’re not gonna smell it: you’re gonna feel it,” US Marine Colonel Tracy Taffola explained to members of the media.
He elaborated, saying that the “Active Denial System” is one of the military’s safest non-lethal capabilities, having been developed over 15 years but never utilized in the field.
It was briefly deployed in Afghanistan in 2010, but never used in an operation.
Source: Yahoo! News
The Blaze adds:
Some still have concerns about the weapon’s safety, particularly surrounding what differentiates this device from a microwave. Are you almost “cooking” these people for three seconds, like what would happen in your kitchen?
According to Stephanie Miller, who measured the system’s radio frequency bioeffects at the Air Force Research Laboratory, this is not at all the case. She said that the system has a frequency of 95 gigahertz, which is absorbed “very superficially,” only touching the top 1/64th of an inch of a person’s skin, not their entire body. The result is that a person’s “pain nerves” are activated, making them want to run, but not causing any real or lasting damage.
She elaborated, saying, “We have done over 11,000 exposures on people. In that time we’ve only had two injuries that required medical attention and in both cases injuries were fully recovered without complications.”
In layman’s terms, while a microwave could cook raw chicken, the Active Denial “heat ray” couldn’t pop a bag of popcorn “because the radio frequency is not penetrating [enough] to internally heat the material…There’s no cancer risk, there’s no risk to a fetus or reproductive capability. It’s just heat.”
The U.S. Military has offered many places where the technology could be utilized, like mob dispersal, checkpoint security, perimeter security, area denial, and infrastructure protection.
The AFP reports
U.S. military unveils ‘Active Denial’ heat ray weapon
A sensation of unbearable, sudden heat seems to come out of nowhere — this wave, a strong electromagnetic beam, is the latest non-lethal weapon unveiled by the US military this week.
“You’re not gonna see it, you’re not gonna hear it, you’re not gonna smell it: you’re gonna feel it,” explained US Marine Colonel Tracy Taffola, director the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, Marine Corps Base Quantico, at a demonstration for members of the media.
The effect is so repellant, the immediate instinct is to flee — and quickly, as experienced by AFP at the presentation.
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“There are a lot of misperceptions out there,” lamented Taffola, saying the Pentagon was keen to make clear what the weapon is, and what it is not.
The frequency of the blast makes all the difference for actual injury as opposed to extreme discomfort, stressed Stephanie Miller, who measured the system’s radio frequency bioeffects at the Air Force Research Laboratory.
The system ray is 95 gigahertz, a frequency “absorbed very superficially,” said Miller.
The beam only goes 1/64th of an inch (0.4 millimeter), which “gives a lot more safety.”
“We have done over 11,000 exposures on people. In that time we’ve only had two injuries that required medical attention and in both cases injuries were fully recovered without complications,” she said.
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With the transmitter, a wave 100 times the power of a regular microwave oven cannot pop a bag of popcorn “because the radio frequency is not penetrating enough to heat enough to internally heat the material,” she stressed.
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The Pentagon has not yet decided to order any of the ADS system, but Taffola said they would be ready if asked.
Source: The Raw Story
Fox News reports:
Peter Doocy Tests Out the Military’s New Crowd Controlling Weapon
The Department of Defense revealed its Active Denial System, a nonlethal weapon used to disperse crowds, secure perimeters, and even protect ships against pirates. Fox News’ Peter Doocy tested out the new tool, describing what it felt like firsthand on Fox and Friends.
The device is neither radioactive nor is it a laser beam. The waves can fire up to 1,000 meters away and are designed to target the subject in the line of sight, getting the part of their body it touches really hot so that they move. Peter reported that you can’t see it, hear it or smell it. One official described it as a method that allows them to “Shoot first and ask questions later. Normally you can’t do that.”
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Source: Fox News Insider
I hope they have a lot of these guns because
Map of ACTA protests across Europe