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2007-01-24 Home Front: WoT

Heat-beaming weapon to be ready by 2010

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Posted by tipper 2007-01-24 19:09|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Microwave, right? Not heat beam.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2007-01-24 19:46|| 2007-01-24 19:46|| Front Page Top

#2 It would be cool if it goes thru walls or causes ammo to explode.

Posted by Gloque Elmang4914 2007-01-24 20:52|| 2007-01-24 20:52|| Front Page Top

#3 The directorate invited reporters to be zapped as part of what its spokeswoman, Marine Major Sarah Fullwood, called an effort to "demystify" the technology at issue.

I'll bet the Major's eyes lit up when she was told to make that invitation.
Maybe they can park it down in front of the Boston Globe and offer the staff free rides...

Posted by tu3031 2007-01-24 20:57|| 2007-01-24 20:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Let Fouad Siniora try it out on the Leb Hizbollah ~~Iranian~~ rent-a-mobs.....shortens the test cycle, and spares the lab rats

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-24 21:14|| 2007-01-24 21:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Whatever happened to the sonic beam weapon demonstrated on "Futureweapons"?

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-01-24 22:35|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-01-24 22:35|| Front Page Top

#6 I recall reading that they tried to send this weapon to Baghdad for real world testing and the military jags refused to let them try it out.

Of course my memory could be bad.

Posted by 3dc 2007-01-24 22:54|| 2007-01-24 22:54|| Front Page Top

#7 WM: Technically, heat is a property of an object, not radiation, so yeah, it has to be an EM field.

Anyway, does Subhuman Rights Watch have a press statement condemning this cruel weapon out yet?

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2007-01-24 22:58|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-01-24 22:58|| Front Page Top

#8 We've had heat weapons for years. Anybody who has worked the flight deck of a CV has been truned on by some sort of 'go-faster.' And a Phantom or Tomcat or Vigilante in tension just before the catshot at full 'burner is definitely tossing some BTUs around. Since we retired all the -14s, can we just mount the engines on the top of a duece and a half and drive around town? put it on a swivel and aim as needed. Of course you would need a tanker to follow and would need some damn good brakes unless you were testing the 'for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction' thingy.
Just sayin' is all......

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-01-24 23:17|| 2007-01-24 23:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Nice, but can it cook soup/stews in a helmet???

FREEREPUBLIC > AVIATION NOW magz > USAF = USA has tech to take control of enemy missles, launchers, + Systems, anytime + almost anywhere. MEL GIBSON in PATRIOT > "Soon, soon" to Tavington.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-01-24 23:21|| 2007-01-24 23:21|| Front Page Top

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