- Riot shields and water cannon may soon be made obsolete
by a revolutionary weapon that can stun a hostile crowd with invisible
microwaves.
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- The US Vehicle Mounted Active Denial System (VMADS),
a radar dish mounted on the back of a tank or jeep, is interesting British
police forces.
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- The VMADS, or 'people zapper', uses a 'directed energy
beam', according to a Pentagon spokesperson. 'When it comes into contact
with skin it causes a sensation of heat to an uncomfortable level.' The
Pentagon insists the beam causes no permanent damage - no one gets hurt,
but the crowd or enemy soldiers retreat hastily.
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- The weapon harnesses the beams found in kitchen microwaves.
Travelling at the speed of light, the energy of the beam penetrates less
than a millimetre under the skin, quickly heating the skin's surface. This
triggers the body's defence reaction: pain. When the subject moves out
of the beam, the pain stops. Scientists will start testing the weapons
on goats and humans soon.
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- Jane's Defence Weekly said recently the 'non-lethal'
nature of some weapons 'might ... encourage military forces to use them
directly against civilians and civilian targets'.
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- 'It's part of this new political correctness on the battlefield,'
said a spokesperson. 'The problem today in situations like Palestine is
that you have adversaries mixing with innocent civilians. Forces now need
a suite of weapons for different situations. You can score so many own
goals by killing innocent civilians.'
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- Scientists have spent $40 million developing the weapon
at the Air Force Research Laboratory, New Mexico. Demand for non-lethal
weapons grew after the disastrous US military mission to Somalia in 1993,
when marines died because they could not shoot back without hitting civilians.
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- The VMADS is the most sophisticated development in the
search for the ultimate non-lethal weapon. The SAS recently began training
with 'glue guns' that fire a web of resin from a gun-mounted aerosol. The
resin hardens around opponents, paralysing them.
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