Raytheon's Pain Ray: Coming to a Protest Near You?

[2008]

Raytheon's Pain Ray: Coming to a Protest Near You?
By Michael Dickinson
CounterPunch
May 29, 2008

Coming soon, from the folks who brought you the microwave -- Raytheon! After more than ten years in the making and at a cost of over 40 million dollars, 'Silent Guardian', or Active Denial System, (ADS, in it's formal mood), is almost ready for public release!

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For, Raytheon -- the world's largest producer of guided missiles, and fifth largest defense contractor in the world, provider of aircraft radar systems, weapons sights and targeting systems, communication and battle-management systems, and satellite components -- has come up with a system which could scatter a crowd in a trice without a drop of blood being spilled.

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Transmitted at the speed of light over a 700 yard distance, the Pain Ray is a millimeter-wave beam that penetrates 1/64th of an inch beneath the skin, causing the water molecules there to bubble, producing an intense burning sensation, said to feel like being burnt by molten lava or a hot iron. Its delivery system attached to a Humvee and aimed right, the Pain Ray makes people run away -- fast.

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"But what happens if the people faced with such a weapon can't just run away? What happens if they're trapped in a crowd, and the crowd can't move? How much pain must that crowd endure? How long can any member of the crowd be exposed to that weapon before his or her skin -- or their eyes -- simply cook off? What happens if the devices are used deliberately in a manner designed to cause maximum harm -- say, by training the device on prisoners trapped in prison cells until they literally go mad with pain? What happens if the system operator turns up the power? A little bit works well, why not try a lot? What happens if the scientists didn't test the devices thoroughly, and they turn out to render anyone touched by them blind, or impotent, or sterile?"

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full story:

http://www.alternet.org/story/86692

[Hekate]

1. KnR. Thanks for the update. A vet friend of mine has been trying to get the word out...

...for the past couple of years.

Hekate

[Breeze54]

2. I saw this demonstrated on a PBS show... blew my mind!!!

:wtf:

And it pentrates all means of protection!

It's like you get 'fried' or 'zapped' and

you look like Kirk when he gets "Spocked'!

The Vulcan Mind Meld


:P

:scared:

[ljm2002]

8. It can be shielded with a Faraday Cage...

...per Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System : "Electromagnetic radiation cannot pass through a conductor, so the effect can be shielded by a a conductive mesh or foil which forms a Faraday cage around the target."

So we need to figure out a lightweight and inexpensive wearable Faraday shield. My first thought was Mylar since it is reflective, but I'm not sure now if Mylar would be effective? In any event, obviously in the future people planning to demonstrate will need a means to counteract this barbaric weapon.

Yes, it is barbaric. Reports of people being hospitalized with 2nd degree burns, if exposed for longer periods of time. And if you don't think operators will have "fun" by prolonging the beams -- well you haven't read much 20th century history, then, have you?

Scary stuff.

[Wiley50]

11. How about wrapping oneselves with aluminum foil? n/t

[Breeze54]

17. It didn't work and it went right through a door and a metal trash can...

the guy i saw demonstrating it used a lot of items to try and beat it and he got zapped on all, including a mattress.

[Beausoleil]

18. Was that on the 60 Minutes report?

He was able to use the mattress for a longer period, but the ray still got to his feet and fingers. It's just impractical carrying a mattress to a demonstration.

[Breeze54]

19. I think it was '60 Minutes', now that I've rethought it....but.. LMAO!

In Sept. 2005 in DC, I could barely carry my purse and my sign at the same time, let alone a frigging mattress!! :P

[glowing]

3. Between this and the Sonic Devices that could blow out your eardrums,

or cause you to go mad.. They've been testing them out on Iraqi's.. soon they'll be use for crowd control.

[Peace Patriot]

4. When are we going to grow out of this depraved childhood, with all these

bestial little Bushites running around pulling wings off of flies and blowing up frogs, and figuring out how to fry peoples' eyeballs, and getting their jollies off drowning people and running prison ships?

I was going to say that "we have become a disgusting nation." But it's just a few, totally disgusting, perverted little bully boys and their ugly-ass girlfriends. How did we let this happen--the most hateful children in class ending up in charge? It's time to take the boogers down. Come on, gang! We can do it! We are the SOVEREIGN PEOPLE OF THIS LAND. We don't like Raytheon and its nasty little pain engineers?--we can pull their corporate charter, dismantle them and seize their assets for the common good. What the hell are we putting up with this for?

[SpiralHawk]

5. Reading this causes me to reflect on the argument I hear from folks

about cell phones and wi fi that electronic energy waves don't and can't have any negative impact on human beings. What the hell, they say, it's only energy; people who complain about it are psychotic. Um hmmmm.

[Lerkfish]

6. when they demonstrated this for 60 minutes, the targets were Peace protestors

military volunteers holding signs saying "peace not war" and other cliched things that AMERICAN CITIZENS might carry at a demonstration.


keep that in mind.

[Echo In Light]

7. Exactly. They serve power, not people

[Javaman]

9. I wonder if mylar blankets would "deflect" it's effects. nt

[undergroundpanther]

15. you'd stick out

and the thug police would know your intentions and try to kill you.Your self defense might get you shot.
Psychopaths are the kind of people that like using these beams on protesters.

[guruoo]

10. If they're not careful, these idiots are going to light the candle n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. check out this Orwellian doublespeak...

Testing, conducted on human volunteers and animals by the

Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness *Directorate*...


Directorate ??!!
What the Sam Hill is a Human Effectiveness Directorate.


( and who the hell is Sam Hill?)

[windoe]

13. Has anyone else noticed the timing of these stories

:tinfoilhat: :D they always march out the latest crowd control device when things start to get a little 'spicy'?? Propaganda is becoming ineffectual so time for plan B.
I read somewhere that some animals suffered retina damage from this energy, so probably also good to think of some eye protection.

[undergroundpanther]

14. there has to be ways to deflect those beams

The pain beam does fuck up and fry people.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/11/seven-months-af.html
http://corporateswine.net/jaycor.html
http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/sheriffs-departments-to-use-microwave-weapons-to-control-crowds-and-quell-jail-disturbances/

More people need to understood why protesters need to form protection for protesters from the brutality and technology of police. The protesters faced with the pain beams would be wise to get the technology to be safe.If it is not sold to the public some people could be ready in a protest to take armor and devices from downed thugs and leave ASAP, Or find people they trust to take it so the police can't get it back.Go reverse engineer it later and make it available for protesters..
http://www.black-rose.com/articles-liz/blackbloc.html
http://www.jeffvail.net/2005/01/swarming-open-source-warfare-and-black.html
On the other hand...If people try to deflect beams in obvious ways like foiled suits, then the fascists will kill them because they know what their intentions are...

http://ommaspace.blogspot.com/2006/12/active-denial-systems-beams-not-easily.html

http://www.truveo.com/Thor-Shield-AntiTaserAntiMicrowave/id/4220789614

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Is this the weapon 60 Minutes did a story on a month or so ago?