US Military Wants Active Denial System (Ray Gun) Delivered To Iraq Before Next Year

[DeSwiss]

No fast delivery of ray gun to Iraq

Associated Press
October 25, 2007 8:03 PM ET

QUANTICO, Va. (AP) - Military officials at the Quantico Marine Corps base in Virginia have demonstrated a weapon that packs a lot of heat, but does not kill or maim people.

The Active Denial System, as it's called, is an oversized ray gun that uses energy beams. It would be used to disperse unruly crowds without using bullets.

Military officials say the ray gun could be deployed to Iraq early next year. But U.S. commanders want it sooner. What the troops may see as needless delays, Pentagon officials view as necessary steps toward fielding a weapon that's never been used before in combat.

While delivery schedules might be murky, there's no denying the system's punch. Reporters and military personnel who volunteered to be hit by the invisible beam found themselves feeling intense heat akin to a suddenly opened furnace.

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*** - "Disperse unruly crowds?" In Iraq? Why they love us!!! Remember all the flowers, the singing, and the dancing in the streets? Why we're their "liberators????" They wouldn't dare get unruly......

[Xipe Totec]

1. Wanna bet it's already used for enhanced interrogations? nt

[DeSwiss]

2. I'm not taking that bet....

....not with the sociopaths we've got in the WH. You're probably right.