Microwave weapon will rain pain from the sky on crowds

[Neo]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327185.600-microwave-weapon-will-rain-pain-from-the-sky.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

THE Pentagon's enthusiasm for non-lethal crowd-control weapons appears to have stepped up a gear with its decision to develop a microwave pain-infliction system that can be fired from an aircraft.

The device is an extension of its controversial Active Denial System, which uses microwaves to heat the surface of the skin, creating a painful sensation without burning that strongly motivates the target to flee. The ADS was unveiled in 2001, but it has not been deployed owing to legal issues and safety fears.

Nevertheless, the Pentagon's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD) in Quantico, Virginia, has now called for it to be upgraded. The US air force, whose radar technology the ADS is based on, is increasing its annual funding of the system from $2 million to $10 million.

The transmitting antenna on the current system is 2 metres across, produces a single beam of similar width and is steered mechanically, making it cumbersome. At the heart of the new weapon will be a compact airborne antenna, which will be steered electronically and be capable of generating multiple beams, each of which can be aimed while on the move.

The ADS has been dogged by controversy. Jürgen Altmann, a physicist at Dortmund University in Germany, showed that the microwave beams can cause serious burns at levels not far above those required to repel people. This was verified when a US airman was hospitalised with second-degree burns during testing in April 2007.

The airborne version will not make it any less contentious. "Independent of the mode of production, with this size of antenna the beam will show variations of intensity with distance - not just a simple decrease - up to about 500 metres," says Altmann. Shooting it on the move with any accuracy will be difficult, he adds.

Dave Law, head of the technology division of the JNLWD, says the new antenna will operate at the lowest possible effective power level and will have a sophisticated automated target-tracking system.

In a recent cost-benefit analysis, the US Government Accountability Office rated the ADS worst out of eight non-lethal weapons currently in development.

[Draskinn]

You know I was thinking about this today and started to wonder just how hard it would be to get the use of directed energy weapons for crowd control banded on a state level.

If you tried to sell the idea as a “ban on weapons of mass torture” law makers would have a heck of a hard time not voting for it. They would know next election anyone running against them could use the pro-torture card on them then.

[Satyagraha]

August 3, 2009
Microwave Weapon Will Rain Pain from the Sky
Filed under: World — Satinder SINGH @ 7:02 am
http://www.daily.pk/7877/microwave-weapon-will-rain-pain-from-the-sky/

THE Pentagon’s enthusiasm for non-lethal crowd-control weapons appears to have stepped up a gear with its decision to develop a microwave pain-infliction system that can be fired from an aircraft.

The device is an extension of its controversial Active Denial System, which uses microwaves to heat the surface of the skin, creating a painful sensation without burning that strongly motivates the target to flee. The ADS was unveiled in 2001, but it has not been deployed owing to legal issues and safety fears.

Nevertheless, the Pentagon’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD) in Quantico, Virginia, has now called for it to be upgraded. The US air force, whose radar technology the ADS is based on, is increasing its annual funding of the system from $2 million to $10 million.

The transmitting antenna on the current system is 2 metres across, produces a single beam of similar width and is steered mechanically, making it cumbersome. At the heart of the new weapon will be a compact airborne antenna, which will be steered electronically and be capable of generating multiple beams, each of which can be aimed while on the move.
The new antenna will be steered electronically and is capable of generating multiple heat beams

The ADS has been dogged by controversy. Jürgen Altmann, a physicist at Dortmund University in Germany, showed that the microwave beams can cause serious burns at levels not far above those required to repel people. This was verified when a US airman was hospitalised with second-degree burns during testing in April 2007.

The airborne version will not make it any less contentious. “Independent of the mode of production, with this size of antenna the beam will show variations of intensity with distance – not just a simple decrease – up to about 500 metres,” says Altmann. Shooting it on the move with any accuracy will be difficult, he adds.

Dave Law, head of the technology division of the JNLWD, says the new antenna will operate at the lowest possible effective power level and will have a sophisticated automated target-tracking system.

In a recent cost-benefit analysis, the US Government Accountability Office rated the ADS worst out of eight non-lethal weapons currently in development.

[Satyagraha]

(copy from "General" to keep this info with the thread)...

Here are excerpts from Jurgen Altmann's paper on Non-Lethal Weapons (NLWs). He reviews four types:

1. Active Denial System (ADS)  (e.g., microwave people as above)

2. Advanced Tactical Laser
A notional scenario of such uses is the following, which seems to have been developed by
Boeing in interaction with the JNLWD.107 The targets are depicted in an artist’s concept:108
On the left side of a curved, narrow road in a valley there is a military column consisting of
about 7 armoured vehicles, 5 trucks and 1 missile-launch vehicle, about 100 m long. On
the opposite side, just beyond the road margin, there is a group of 30-40 refugees,
accompanied by armed guards; the former are to be saved from oppression. The C-130
transport aircraft with the ATL is shown in an inset.
To assess the situation, the ATL pops up from behind a mountain ridge, takes a picture
from 7 km distance and goes below again. Then about 100 aim points are selected and
assigned. The aircraft rises again to get an unobstructed line of sight and attacks these
targets during two periods of radiating, one 14 seconds long, the other 26 seconds.109 The
mirror is steered rapidly from one target to the next, necessarily under computer control.
The breakdown of aimpoints includes 32 tyres, 11 antennas, 4 mortars, 4 interior seats and
22 armed soldiers, the refugee group on the other side of the road between is spared. The
closest aimpoint is maybe 8 m from the refugees, beams directed toward targets behind
the group pass maybe 1 m above their heads. (wanna bet? - see Drone attacks in Pakistan)

3. Pulsed Energy Projectile
The concept of the Pulsed Energy Projectile (PEP) is to use short, powerful laser pulses to
provide a mechanical impulse to the target subject or object. The mechanism is the
following: when a high-intensity light pulse impinges on matter, the uppermost layer is
heated so fast that it vaporises explosively, producing recoil. The vapour is heated further,
producing a plasma in the air where nearly all laser energy of the later part of the pulse is
absorbed. If the heating is strong enough, a shock wave, the so-called laser-supported
detonation wave, forms which exerts a pressure pulse on the target. The force pulse
produced in this way is to act similarly to an impact round, but at a much larger distance.123
...
For the range of the PEP, 0.5 and 2 km have been given.134 Lethal or non-lethal use would
be for area denial, crowd control, facility protection, operations other than war, military
operations on urban terrain or law enforcement.135

4. Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD)
(Sound cannons - As seen in NYC during the republican convention....)
For government uses, the manufacturer mentions the following applications:167
– border security,
– crowd control for public safety agencies,
– long range communication for public safety agencies,
– search and rescue for harbour/port police,
– coastal surveillance for harbour/port police.
These are the military missions given:168
– enforcement of exclusion zones,
– critical infrastructure protection,
– psychological operations,
– traffic control points/access control points,
– interdiction operations,
– checkpoint operations,
– detainee operations.
Apparently LRAD has been used for several of these purposes in occupied Iraq. One
problematic application was to draw out enemy snipers who were then destroyed by US
snipers.169
One incident has gotten wide publicity: In November 2005, pirates in a small boat attacked
a cruise liner 160 km off the Somali coast with rocket grenades and rifle fire. They were
successfully driven back by an LRAD on board the ship.170
The New York Police Department had deployed two LRADs during the protests at the
Republican Convention in August 2004, but did not use them because the protesters to be
addressed were at close range.171 The price was $35,000 per copy.172

All of Jergens horrifying details about these weapons and the damage they can do to people are in this PDF file:

http://www.bundesstiftung-friedensforschung.de/pdf-docs/berichtaltmann2.pdf
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[albinolime]

I wonder if there is a way to make a home made version of this weapon.

[menace]

They probley use some type of this to force people belive that Global warming is real.

[speakfreely]

 They will probably start cooking everyone during the solar maximum in 2012. They have been trying to brainwash us with all the 2012 crap, the hole in the magnetic field is bigger than they thought, telling us that the next solar max will be worse than ever before. They will blame it all on the sun, as they cook us all slowly but surely. They say there could be huge blackouts, if that happens, it will mean the oven is on. That movie with the oil spill (Knowing) I hope everyone noticed that the oil spill was not considered a disaster in the movie and was not on the list. He actually fell asleep watching it, which is what they want us to do. Anyway in the movie the end of the world was not caused by the actual sun itself, it was the angels or NWO, using the sun as a weapon to kill everyone and destroy earth, but they saved the children and the animals to start over.

[attietewd]

I think something is going on already.  My grandson (4 years old) was out playing today.....he had NO sunburn anywhere on his body, his shoulders were slightly pink, he had a shirt on and suntan lotion.  A short while later he came inside and we were horrified....he had big blisters filled with yellow fluid on his one shoulder, the other shoulder had a blister the size of a pin-head.  We put burn medicine on both shoulders.  Within an hour we noticed he was still getting more blisters and the ones he had grew larger, including the pin-head size one.  I have never seen such a thing before.  Also a few days ago I was sitting curled up on the porch swing with jean capris on.  After a half hour I noticed my knees (under the jeans) were burning, but not like sunburn, like being too close to fire.  I lifted my jeans and my upper knees were fire engine red, they were burning through the jeans.  I came in the house and didnt go back out.  I told my husband it wasn't normal.  the rays feel different.  Today with what happened to my grandson,  it was confirmed to me.  What I don't understand is why wasnt everyone here affected the way the two of us were??  Any ideas?

[InfoArsenal]

I read more on this weapon and if you resist then it WILL BURN YOU--even causing 3rd degree burns on soldiers who were told to try and resist.

Logically I don't think this weapon can be used on an armed country because they will go and get bullets if you burn them.

At least I'd hope they would.

There's only so much a man can take.

You know what the future is: Reapers flying around burning people everywhere--stuff goes through walls/clothes/cars etc.

[OctoberCat]

I think something is going on already.  My grandson (4 years old) was out playing today.....he had NO sunburn anywhere on his body, his shoulders were slightly pink, he had a shirt on and suntan lotion.  A short while later he came inside and we were horrified....he had big blisters filled with yellow fluid on his one shoulder, the other shoulder had a blister the size of a pin-head.  We put burn medicine on both shoulders.  Within an hour we noticed he was still getting more blisters and the ones he had grew larger, including the pin-head size one.  I have never seen such a thing before.  Also a few days ago I was sitting curled up on the porch swing with jean capris on.  After a half hour I noticed my knees (under the jeans) were burning, but not like sunburn, like being too close to fire.  I lifted my jeans and my upper knees were fire engine red, they were burning through the jeans.  I came in the house and didnt go back out.  I told my husband it wasn't normal.  the rays feel different.  Today with what happened to my grandson,  it was confirmed to me.  What I don't understand is why wasnt everyone here affected the way the two of us were??  Any ideas?

Where are you?

[attietewd]

by: OctoberCat: Where are you?

PA

[InfoArsenal]

I think something is going on already.  My grandson (4 years old) was out playing today.....he had NO sunburn anywhere on his body, his shoulders were slightly pink, he had a shirt on and suntan lotion.  A short while later he came inside and we were horrified....he had big blisters filled with yellow fluid on his one shoulder, the other shoulder had a blister the size of a pin-head.  We put burn medicine on both shoulders.  Within an hour we noticed he was still getting more blisters and the ones he had grew larger, including the pin-head size one.  I have never seen such a thing before.  Also a few days ago I was sitting curled up on the porch swing with jean capris on.  After a half hour I noticed my knees (under the jeans) were burning, but not like sunburn, like being too close to fire.  I lifted my jeans and my upper knees were fire engine red, they were burning through the jeans.  I came in the house and didnt go back out.  I told my husband it wasn't normal.  the rays feel different.  Today with what happened to my grandson,  it was confirmed to me.  What I don't understand is why wasnt everyone here affected the way the two of us were??  Any ideas?

It's probably just the sun. If you have sensitive skin and are already burned you can easily get skin cancer--the sun is not a joke. Most sun tan lotion is crap and doesn't protect you enough.

In the past most kids would gradually tan if they played in the sun daily. Nowadays most kids are indoors and play outside infrequently so they get burned bad.

The microwave weapon is a pain compliance weapon--you would feel it like your skin is on fire and it would make you jump.

[Deca]

I wonder if there is a way to make a home made version of this weapon.

yep....and yes all the bits are in your kitchen

Herf Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY8s5lzd3_Q&feature=related

http://www.amazon.com/Poor-Mans-Ray-David-Gunn/dp/0879471557

The Poor Man's Ray Gun
by David Gunn
1996


Book Description:

"Now it is possible for just about anyone to build and use their own little piece of Star Wars weaponry. This very destructive and potentially lethal weapon uses invisible microwave radiation to burn its target from the inside out. Best of all, the building blocks for this weapon are sitting on your kitchen counter. The author shows, in complete detail and with plenty of photographs and diagrams, how to build a ray gun that is capable of setting fire to a piece of plywood at 500 feet made only from parts in a microwave oven."

if you google you can get this as a PDF