ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque have developed a weapon called the Active Denial System.
The device repels adversaries by heating the water molecules in their skin with microwave energy. The pain is so great that people flee immediately.
Lab spokesman Rich Garcia says it feels like your skin is on fire. He was a test subject.
A Humvee-mounted Active Denial weapon is expected to be given to all services by the end of this year for evaluation. A decision about deployment is expected by the end of 2005.
Researchers at the lab have been working with Raytheon Company to develop the directed-energy weapon.
(Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
I wouldn't want to be one of those test subjects...
The device repels adversaries by heating the water molecules in their skin with microwave energy. The pain is so great that people flee immediately.
Lab spokesman Rich Garcia says it feels like your skin is on fire. He was a test subject.
A Humvee-mounted Active Denial weapon is expected to be given to all services by the end of this year for evaluation. A decision about deployment is expected by the end of 2005.
Researchers at the lab have been working with Raytheon Company to develop the directed-energy weapon.
(Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
I wouldn't want to be one of those test subjects...
