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Subject: Microwave weapons news--
Herc the Merc    8/3/2006 1:30:16 PM
Besides lasers, projectiles and nukes, Microwave weapons are already practical for ant-missile systems. Any updates or tecchnical reports that u might have.?? LOok at Israels problem with Katyushas, Quasams and other mencing rockets and missiles.
 
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flamingknives    RE:Microwave weapons news--   8/3/2006 1:43:51 PM
Microwave weapons are already practical for ant-missile systems. Are they? Do post details.
 
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Herc the Merc    RE:Microwave weapons news--   8/3/2006 2:17:26 PM
Raytheon has one for shoulder fire type missiles SAM around Baghdad airport-experimental.
 
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Nanheyangrouchuan    RE:Microwave weapons news--   8/4/2006 9:31:50 PM
There are supposed to be similar devices usable for crowd control. As a form of "town control" I'd put one on a squadron of UAVs and fly them around, cooking everything electrical for about 24 hours before troops move in. This could help suppress cell phone and radio detonated IEDs and simple communications gear. Would be cleaner than bombs, also.
 
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eon    RE:Microwave weapons news--   8/5/2006 2:17:24 PM
MW weapons are highly efficient for; 1. Disrupting electronic systems, ranging from comm to guidance systems on missiles. However, EMP-hardened systems shrug off the MW's effects. Also, old-fashioned "dumb" weapons, like rockets or bombs with ordinary (non-electronic) fusing, are basically invulnerable; no electronics= nothing to affect. 2. Disrupting hostile individuals or crowds. MW emissions at a sufficient level can badly disrupt the central nervous system, the results ranging from disorientation, headache, and unconsciousness (the classic SciFfy "stunner" effect) to death, due to literal "cooking" of the tissues, especially within the brain itself. This is why such applications are referred to as "less-than-lethal", as opposed to "non-lethal". (It's also why your microwave oven can't be turned on unless the door is firmly shut.) The only major drawback at present is that the MW emitter itself, plus power systems, isn't exactly small or light. The "crowd-control" system that AMC was experimenting with has to be mounted in a Humvee. Cheers. eon
 
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shrike       9/20/2008 12:48:02 AM
try this link 
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doggtag       9/20/2008 6:35:45 PM

There are supposed to be similar devices usable for crowd control.

As a form of "town control" I'd put one on a squadron of UAVs and fly them around, cooking everything electrical for about 24 hours before troops move in. This could help suppress cell phone and radio detonated IEDs and simple communications gear. Would be cleaner than bombs, also.

Also pretty much relegates your local hospitals and health clinics to Civil War-era medical practices, don't it?
 
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