Coming to a police force near you no time really soon

        http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18624975.800

" ... The first is a radio-frequency weapon being developed by 
Raytheon at Palo Alto, California, which appears to be based on a 
similar concept to the Active Denial System weapon that Raytheon 
developed for the US marines in 2001. The military version is designed 
to heat people's skin with a 95-gigahertz microwave beam (New 
Scientist, 27 October 2001, p 26)."

" ... The second device is described by the NIJ as "the first 
man-portable heat compliance weapon of its kind". It uses a 
semiconductor laser for "force protection, crowd control, and access 
denial". Though the Air Force Research Laboratory in Kirtland, New 
Mexico, has been contracted to produce a test-bed system, there is no 
known weapon, military or otherwise, that appears to work this way. 
Its effects and effectiveness can only be guessed at."



        RM 

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