Invisible beam tops list of nonlethal weapons

[2RHPZ]

Once an operator has aimed the antenna using a scope, the press of a button sends out a column of millimeter-wave, electromagnetic energy at the speed of light. Pentagon officials say that the weapon's exact reach and its column size are classified, but that it can extend beyond the 550-meter effective range of bullets. Its intensity is the same at any distance.

http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/9499345p-10423294c.html

[Shadow]

I build a "shotgun-version"(not concentrated)a few month ago.
Video (http://www.voltsamps.com/pages/projects/herf005/herf-comp-wcase.mpg)[/url]

[Ratamacue]

Ouch.

[DrunkenMaster]

this had me cracking up!!!! that is some crazy ****!!!!

http://img47.exs.cx/img47/1461/664-beam.jpg

[2RHPZ]

Here is an article related to non-lethal weapons:

Non-Lethal Weapons as Legitimizing Forces?: Technology, Politics and the Management of Conflict


In early 1995, some U.S. Marines were supplied with so-called dazzling lasers. The idea was to inflict as little harm as possible if Somalis turned hostile. But the Marines' commander then decided that the lasers should be “de-tuned” to prevent the chance of their blinding citizens. With their intensity thus diminished, they could be used only for designating or illuminating targets.

On March 1, 1995, commandos of U.S. Navy SEAL Team 5 were positioned at the south end of Mogadishu airport. At 7 a.m., a technician from the Air Force's Phillips Laboratory, developer of the lasers, used one to illuminate a Somali man armed with a rocket-propelled grenade. A SEAL sniper shot and killed the Somali. There was no question the Somali was aiming at the SEALs. But the decision not to use the laser to dazzle or temporarily blind the man irks some of the nonlethal-team members. “We were not allowed to disable these guys because that was considered inhumane”, said one. “Putting a bullet in their head is somehow more humane?”.

Full text (http://www.ex.ac.uk/~br201/Research/Non-lethalWeapons/Book/intro.htm)