PrOpHeT

I wonder what happens if you turn it up?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/...594432286.html


BTW:54°c = 129°f

dilettante

Yeah, I sort of figured the 54 degrees was Celsius. Unlike the stubbornness of our civilian population here in the U.S. the military and nearly all trans-border commerce adapted to reality long ago.

Neither the emitter/radiator nor the reflector look quite right for infrared to me, but since I don't see in those bands nor does the photography or my monitor reproduce them I couldn't say. Looks more like a microwave source to me but I assume the article would say so if true. Perhaps far infrared?

Would the emitter be a large cluster of high power infrared LEDs? An infrared laser would make the large reflector superfluous I'd think. A simple resistive heat source would probably melt, so maybe just a thermal junction device made of refractory materials? Still, Tungsten doesn't melt until over 3000C.

Probably doesn't make much of a squirrel gun though. It just doesn't look quite agile enough and 54C is probably close to body temp for a squirrel.

Oops, guess I was wrong: http://www.squirrels.org/raising.html

PrOpHeT

Looks like a new way for the guys in the field to heat their MRE.

new initiation at westpoint...
Hey joe, run out in the field and hold these up for us!

Rockoon

The folks at http://www.metalstorm.com/ have a method of firing 120,000 live amunition rounds per minute. Much cooler than this sissy death-ray crap.

PrOpHeT

Though probably significantly more effective at riot control I do not think 120,000 rounds into a live crowd would make for good press.

shaul_ahuva

I wonder...if these technologies are being publicized now then what is going through development and testing at places such as Groom Lake?

Iceplug

Death rays that actually kill you.

dilettante

OLED-fiber fabric optically active camo vehicle skins and jumpsuits, preceding near-invisible ones with those that simply adapt their color schemes and patterns to ambient surroundings and backgrounds. Chemical discharge MASER shells. Teleoperated micro-aircraft and semi-autonomous swarms. Bolos and 4- and 6-wheel ATV scale mini-Bolos. Standing-wave EM warhead devices.

DougT

I thought this was a wind-up until I saw this http://www.raytheon.com/feature/rtn07_dod/
milliwave energy?

Apparently 10,000 people have been exposed to it over the past 12 years (yes, 12) and none have had any adverse / permanent side-effects. I seem to remember similar things being stated after Bikini Atol.
The Videos of it in action, here: https://www.jnlwp.com/ActiveDenialSystem.asp#mediaDay are an absolute scream ("The Individual Exposure" one in particular. "Now you see him, now you don't")

I thought KFC had been using this technology for years.

PrOpHeT

what millimeter energy is and what the ray does

http://www.mapcruzin.com/news/war080801a.htm

neat stuff

DougT

I'm not an Opthamist but I suspect that 1/64 inch penetration at 130 degrees (F) for 2 seconds wouldn't do a retina a lot of good.

PrOpHeT

Retina, what about testes !!!