Non-lethal Raygun In Action

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/ma...tml?id=3888156n

[Msterbeau]

You just like that it's a CBS guy getting zapped. :-)

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

to some extent... I like seeing newsman get zapped period.

But I have been dieing to see this thing working since I read about it in Pop/Sci years ago.

[Head Wreck]

i want a go

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Me too.

[Kit Kat P]

That seems kinda cool, although not quite as portable as I was picturing.

[freydis]

I need to watch this at home. It's less impressive without sound. heheh....

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

It was designed to be truck mounted. It's acutally kinda big.

Drive up... sweep that back and forth along the line of violent protestors... asses and elbows is all our going to see.

[jadnifer]

I thought it was something that someone could actually carry around with them. I think that if they can get it to where they can do that, it would be an effective weapon.

I wonder how long I would be able to stand in the stream?

What about you guys?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

about 3-5 seconds. Everything I have read says it feels like your whole body just caught on fire. Other people describe it as feeling like being dipped in boiling water.

jadnifer. It's not meant as a one on one personal weapon. It was designed as crowd control.

[Homicidalheathen]

He's a pussy. I could take it.

[jadnifer]

about 3-5 seconds. Everything I have read says it feels like your whole body just caught on fire. Other people describe it as feeling like being dipped in boiling water.

jadnifer. It's not meant as a one on one personal weapon. It was designed as crowd control.

So like for use in riots and such?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

yes.

[n0Mad]

How's it work?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Low frequancy microwaves.

[jadnifer]

Low frequancy microwaves.

Microwaves?? Aren't they extremely dangerous even in low frequencies and a few short seconds?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Everything is dangerous if you use it improperly.

At these wave lengths, the microwaves cant penetrate your skin more than a skin layer or two.

What this article doesn;t say that others have is... the very outer layer of your skin cells that are exposed to this, turn to dust.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Here is moounted on a humvee

Wiki on Active Denial System

The ADS works by directing electromagnetic radiation at a frequency of 95 GHz[6] (a wavelength of 3.2 mm) toward the subjects. The waves excite water molecules in the epidermis to around 55 °C (130 degrees Fahrenheit), causing an intensely painful sensation of extreme heat. While not actually burning the skin, the burning sensation is similar to that of a light bulb being pressed against the skin.[6] The focused beam can be directed at targets at a range of just under half a kilometer, or 500 yards[7]. The device can penetrate thick clothing, although not walls[7]. Active Denial utilizes high frequency microwave radiation.

Electromagnetic radiation cannot pass through a conductor, so an effective way to shield yourself from the beam is a Faraday cage, a type of electromagnetic shielding made from a conductive mesh or foil. In the case of a mesh the openings in the weave must be smaller than the wavelength of the radiation, and due to the very high frequency of the ADS (95 GHz) it would be necessary to use a very tightly woven conductive fabric, so thin metallic foil would be more suitable. Any type of metallic foil will easily absorb and deflect the beam.[citation needed][dubious – discuss]

At 95 GHz, the frequency is much higher than the 2.45 GHz of a microwave oven. This frequency was chosen because, due to the stronger absorption of water at those frequencies, they penetrate the skin to a depth of less than 1/64 of an inch (0.4 mm),"[8] which is where the nerve endings are located. A spokesman for the Air Force Research Laboratory described his experience as a test subject for the system: "For the first millisecond, it just felt like the skin was warming up. Then it got warmer and warmer and you felt like it was on fire.... As soon as you're away from that beam your skin returns to normal and there is no pain."

[Kit Kat P]

Everything is dangerous if you use it improperly.

At these wave lengths, the microwaves cant penetrate your skin more than a skin layer or two.

What this article doesn;t say that others have is... the very outer layer of your skin cells that are exposed to this, turn to dust.

And to think women pay to have that done to their skin.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

They pay to have a larger amount removed. You wont notice the "dust" coming off you from this as it is such a small amount.

[jadnifer]

They pay to have a larger amount removed. You wont notice the "dust" coming off you from this as it is such a small amount.

Does it leave any kind of a burn mark where the beam hits you?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

No, there are no known lasting affects.

[ManicQueen]

The fun I would have using that on my 14-year old daughter.