ABC News: Army Orders Pain Ray Trucks; New Report Shows ‘Potential for Death’

2008 October 12
by Mark Baard

After years of testing, the Active Denial System — the pain ray which drives off rioters with a microwave-like beam — could finally have its day. The Army is buying five of the truck-mounted systems for $25 million. But the energy weapon may face new hurdles, before it’s shipped off to the battlefield; a new report details how the supposedly non-lethal blaster could be turned into a flesh-frying killer.

ABC News: Army Orders Pain Ray Trucks; New Report Shows ‘Potential for Death’

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  1. 2008 October 15
    Mark permalink

    Reminds me of the Thompson Harmonizer…

    “It was so swift, so uncontested, so simple, that Dr, Stadler felt no horror, he felt nothing, it was not the reality he had known, it was the realm of a child’s nightmare where material objects could be dissolved by means of a single malevolent wish.”

    “Who invented that ghastly thing?”
    “You did.”

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