Pentagon develops new weapon - this thing RUles!

[LordMaul]

*Zzzzat* *twitch*

 

[Mesomorph]

Whatever happened to the good, old fashioned police beatings?

That was non-lethal weaponry! That hurt alot too!

Really though, the cops spend so much money working on a gun that does the same thing as a net and a taser.

 

[LordMaul]

COOLNESS *zap!*

 

[dcdomain]

Great, the government spends the citizen's tax money on a weapon to be used against them. Anyone see the irony in this? Sure peace keeping missions play a role, but those things usually turn ugly anyway and they'll have to resort to more lethal forms of weaponry.

 

[sharkeeper]

Well, since it uses non ionising µWave radiation, it will be easy to shield against. This is nothing new folks. A crafty individual (probably more people on Anandtech--overclockers!) can take a home microwave oven apart and build a crude waveguide. I've done it, and I've seen others do it as well. We were able to melt a car stereo from 50 feet away.



<< seems to me like it would be a good idea, but who do they use as the test dummies? I would hate to be them incase something goes wrong >>



Finally, it seems that the NEF's may serve a useful purpose!

Cheers!

 

[shiner]

This kind of stuff is crap. The object of war is to kill people and break stuff. Trying to fight a humanitarian war is not possible. Do you guys seriously think that war has rules? Do you think that any country other than the U.S. would even try to use a non lethal weapon. We need to stop trying to be the nice guys and just go out and kick ass when need be.

&quot;The object of war is to cause the maximum amount of wounds, death, and destruction to your enemy in the minimum amount of time.&quot; - General George S. Patton

 

[GoldenTiger]

bshiner: Of course I don't think it has rules. However, a ton of llama people (most of the American public) get caught up in the stupidity. Kind of like AOL .