The Department of Justice is work on two new weapons come down from the Air Force’s“pain beam ” Active Denial System — and wants toput them in the hand of your local boys in blueness .
https://gizmodo.com/nonlethal-gun-makes-you-wish-you-were-shot-with-bfg-219370
One is a backpack - sized portable ADS that use microwave to rib your skin , create what the Pentagon gingerly calls a “ repel response”—in other words , OWOWITBURNSOWOWTURNITOFF . They say it causes no permanent damage , but there haven been typesetter’s case of 2d - degree burn .
And then you ’ve got the PhaSR , that Starship Troopers - looking optical maser rifle above . Not only does “ dazzle ” you with laser — not the kind that’llmake your sight any better — it has a infrared beam fastening to incinerate your tegument too , which is more presently practical than the microwave oven - based painfulness beams , though the latter penetrates clothing better . The National Institute for Justice is test it “ in various scenario , which may let in prison house post as well as police force enforcement . ”
Meaning we can calculate frontwards to videos like this one , but with a sweet Halo rifle instead of a dinky taser dish out the pain : sink in to view[NewScientist ]
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