Showing posts with label cyberpunk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cyberpunk. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Microwave Ray Weapon (Active Denial System)


Here is the new weapon that is going to be used on protestors.





This is what wired magazine says about it:

"The crowd is getting ugly. Soldiers roll up in a Hummer. Suddenly, the whole right half of your body is screaming in agony. You feel like you've been dipped in molten lava. You almost faint from shock and pain, but instead you stumble backwards -- and then start running. To your surprise, everyone else is running too. In a few seconds, the street is completely empty.

The ADS shoots a beam of millimeters waves, which are longer in wavelength than x-rays but shorter than microwaves -- 94 GHz (= 3 mm wavelength) compared to 2.45 GHz (= 12 cm wavelength) in a standard microwave oven."

(The heat beam fires after a generator on the Humvee creates 50,000 volts of electricity, which powers a gyrotron, a tube that bunches electrons in a magnetic field to emit a 130-degree-Fahrenheit directed-energy beam.)

"The beam produces what experimenters call the "Goodbye effect," or "prompt and highly motivated escape behavior." In human tests, most subjects reached their pain threshold within 3 seconds, and none of the subjects could endure more than 5 seconds.

"It will repel you," one test subject said. "If hit by the beam, you will move out of it -- reflexively and quickly. You for sure will not be eager to experience it again."

But while subjects may feel like they have sustained serious burns, the documents claim effects are not long-lasting. At most, "some volunteers who tolerate the heat may experience prolonged redness or even small blisters," the Air Force experiments concluded."

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/12/72134


Oh and by the way:

"An airman received second-degree burns April 4 during a test of the Defense Department’s nonlethal millimeter-wave heat beam at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., according to Marine Corps Maj. Sarah Fullwood, spokeswoman for the Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator program, Quantico, Va.

The airman was burned as the Air Force’s 820th Security Forces Group was testing a demonstrator version of the Active Denial System, a Humvee-mounted system that produces an intense heat beam."

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/04/defense_burnedairman_070405/

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Samsung Robotic Sentry Machine Gun


Expect to see these defend private corporations.



Samsung has partnered with Korea university and developed the machine-gun equipped robotic sentry. It is equipped with two cameras with zooming capabilities one for day time and one for infrared night vision, and can shoot on target with 100% accuracy within 2km (1km at night). It has a sophisticated pattern recognition which can detect the difference between humans and trees, and a 5.5mm machine-gun. The robot also has a speaker to warn the intruder to surrender or get a perfect headshot. The South Korean government is expected to buy 1,000 of these robots by 2007 at the cost of $200,000 apiece and will deploy them along its northern border, coastal regions and military airfields.

ED-209 comes to mind.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Injected Circuits

Prepare to be liberated from your wallet and treated like a prisoner just like in the movies.