ipshnik
12-08-2006, 10:16 AM
Based on :
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/v-mads.htm
Approximately $40 million has been spent on this technology over the past ten years.
Countermeasures against the weapon could be quite straightforward:
for example covering up the body with thick clothes or carrying a metallic sheet — or even a trash can lid — as a shield or reflector.
Also unclear is how the active-denial technology would work in rainy, foggy or sea-spray conditions where the beam's energy could be absorbed by water in the atmosphere.
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>Just shoot them instead, they will complain less. And we won't have to hear about the "serious" burns they have from the use of the weapon.
>>An excellent idea ! I second this motion. Then we could use the "ray gun" for more important things ... like heating up MREs.
http://www.mreinfo.com/images/mres-case.jpg
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72134-0.html?tw=rss.technology
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/v-mads.htm
Approximately $40 million has been spent on this technology over the past ten years.
Countermeasures against the weapon could be quite straightforward:
for example covering up the body with thick clothes or carrying a metallic sheet — or even a trash can lid — as a shield or reflector.
Also unclear is how the active-denial technology would work in rainy, foggy or sea-spray conditions where the beam's energy could be absorbed by water in the atmosphere.
(Bloggers ctrl+C)
>Just shoot them instead, they will complain less. And we won't have to hear about the "serious" burns they have from the use of the weapon.
>>An excellent idea ! I second this motion. Then we could use the "ray gun" for more important things ... like heating up MREs.
http://www.mreinfo.com/images/mres-case.jpg
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72134-0.html?tw=rss.technology