US Military Unveils Heat-Ray Gun
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could be used to control mobs
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The so-called Active Denial System creates an intense burning sensation causing people to run for cover
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give our forces a capability they don't now have
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"We expect the services to add it to their tool kit. And that could happen as early as 2010."
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effective at more than 500 metres.
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Existing counter-personnel systems designed not to kill - including bean bag munitions and rubber bullets - work at little more than "rock-throwing distances," said Marine Colonel Kirk Hymes, director of the Pentagon's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate.
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a much-needed alternative to just going from "shouting to shooting," said Colonel Hymes,
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Variations of the system could help in peacetime and wartime missions, including crowd control and mob dispersal, checkpoint security
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Raytheon Co, which has worked to develop the technology, has built a prototype called Silent Guardian, that it hopes to sell in the United States and abroad in what could become a multibillion market.
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The weapon was shown off publicly for the first time at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, where it has been undergoing operational tests by the 820th Security Forces Group, which protects US Air Force assets.
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At a distance of several football fields, the sensation from the exposure was like a blast from a very hot oven, too painful to bear without scrambling for cover.
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The pain ended as soon as the target jumped from the line of fire.
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