Active Denial System

[Lissa]

Isn't this kind of "old news?" Back when I was <15 watching television with my father, an episode of 20/20 came on and this man who was x-military made a EMP (electro-magnetic-pulse) weapon using junkyard parts made mostly out of microwave parts. He was under the impression that a strong enough beam could take down jets since microwaves travel in a relatively straight path so not as much power loss vs. distance. He demonstrated his weapon on 20/20 with numerous electronic objects and fried them all. 20/20 tried to get a statement from the U.S. military to which the reply was, "There is no such devise in existence." Anyways, I always wanted to know what would happen if you used this weapon on people, but now I know; I had always assumed it could interfere with their own magnetic energy and perhaps make them fall unconscious, but looks like I was wrong. Interesting stuff to be sure.

Anytime I hear the military deny the existance of something, I put a 90% chance that it does exist and they don't want people to know that it exists. DARPA is constantly working on strange ideas and they have plenty of things in the works. Here's one for Occhi, how many sonar people that you worked with back in the 80s were like, "damn, now we have to share with the public," when the Japanese came out with DAT? About the only weapon I would be leery of its existance is the Neutron Bomb. The materials required are quite exotic and typically don't survive long before decaying or fissioning. I'm just waiting for room temperature super conductors to come about on a relatively inexpensive media, then you will really see things take off (like tanks equipped with gaussian weapons for the main gun and the like).