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<\/strong>Two styles of US Marine Corps trucks are seen carrying the Active Denial System, March 9th, 2012, at the US Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. The non-lethal weapon projects a strong electromagnetic beam up to 1000-meters. The beam creates heat so uncomfortable the natural response is to flee.<\/div>\n\tA sensation of unbearable, sudden heat seems to come out of nowhere – this wave, a strong electromagnetic beam, is the latest non-lethal weapon unveiled by the US military this week.<\/p>\n
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\tA sensation of unbearable, sudden heat seems to come out of nowhere – this wave, a strong electromagnetic beam, is the latest non-lethal weapon unveiled by the US military this week.<\/p>\n
\t"You're not gonna see it, you're not gonna hear it, you're not gonna smell it: you're gonna feel it," explained US Marine Colonel Tracy Taffola, director the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, Marine Corps Base Quantico, at a demonstration for members of the media.<\/p>\n
\tThe effect is so repellant, the immediate instinct is to flee – and quickly, as experienced by AFP at the presentation.<\/p>\n
\tTaffola is quick also to point out the "Active Denial System" beam, while powerful and long-range, some 1000 meters (0.6 miles), is the military's "safest non-lethal capability" that has been developed over 15 years but never used in the field.<\/p>\n
\tIt was deployed briefly in Afghanistan in 2010, but never employed in an operation.<\/p>\n
\tThe technology has attracted safety concerns possibly because the beam is often confused with the microwaves<\/a> commonly used by consumers to rapidly heat food. \t"There are a lot of misperceptions<\/a> out there," lamented Taffola, saying the Pentagon was keen to make clear what the weapon is, and what it is not.<\/p>\n \tThe frequency of the blast makes all the difference for actual injury as opposed to extreme discomfort, stressed Stephanie Miller, who measured the system's radio frequency<\/a> bioeffects at the Air Force Research Laboratory.<\/p>\n \tThe system ray is 95 gigahertz, a frequency "absorbed very superficially," said Miller.<\/p>\n \tThe beam only goes 1\/64th of an inch (0.4 millimeter), which "gives a lot more safety."<\/p>\n \t"We have done over 11,000 exposures on people. In that time we've only had two injuries that required medical attention<\/a> and in both cases injuries were fully recovered without complications," she said.<\/p>\n
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