"You're Gonna Feel It:" U.S. Military Unveils New Crowd Control "Heat Ray"

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Marine Col: "I think our forces will figure out the many different applications that it would have.”

- Common Dreams staff
The U.S. military has unveiled its newest approach to crowd control, the Active Denial System, a heat ray that sends out a high-frequency electromagnetic ray. People hit with the ray feel an intense, unbearable heat. The military touts the ray's "far-ranging" capabilities and is looking at "many different applications" for its possible use.


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Marine Col. Tracy Taffola said at the public unveiling of the system at a U.S. Marines base near Washington, D.C.:

"You're not gonna see it, you're not gonna hear it, you're not gonna smell it: you're gonna feel it."
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In a video to demonstrate the new weapon, USFORCESTV explains that the heat ray "boasts a reach far beyond any other non-lethal system" -- a reach of "about 7 footballs fields."http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/14-6

Non-Lethal Weapon: Active Denial System (ADS)

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[babylonsister]

1. Valid link from US Military, since they're intent on doing this? Right. nt

[villager]

2. The 1% would never ever dispatch its military to use this against its citizens! Right! nt

[babylonsister]

3. I would like a valid link. Speculation abounds, as it does on faux, so let's not

go there.

[LiberalFighter]

5. Why is the military doing research for crowd control?

Crowds are not military.

[Blue_Tires]

6. because a military contractor invented a new billion-dollar toy

and the pentagon can't ever say "We don't have a use for this shit" so they devise scenarios so the contractor get paid...

And just because the military is testing it now, don't think for a second it won't trickle down to police forces in the near future...

[davidthegnome]

4. What the...

This is one of those... "That's no moon... it's a space station!" moments. A heat ray is it? Well then, we need some liberal witches to start throwing around fire balls and lightning bolts and such.

Seriously.. a heat ray?

[phleshdef]

7. I'm all for this kind of technology, if its really as safe as they say.

Its beats shooting people in the face.