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Marines Fund Non-Lethal Heat Ray

Reporters can be really dumb. There I was in front of Raytheon’s booth at the Association of the US Army’s conference with a little button under my thumb. I hit the button. My lower thoracic area got very hot, very fast. So I waited for the machine to recycle and hit the button again. This time the pain was more intense — I wasn’t screaming or anything — and my skin felt like it was about to catch fire.

I didn’t do this just to make you all chuckle. The idea was to see what the Marines will probably buy from Raytheon with $25 million buried deep in the summer supplemental spending bill. The Marines haven’t signed the contract — yet — but negotiations are well under way for five nonlethal Silent Guardian systems . It looks as if the system will be used in Afghanistan to help protect high value assets as well as bases.

The system beams millimeter wave energy at the speed of light for more than 250 meters and penetrates the top layer of the skin. As soon as you move away from the beam the pain stops, although there is a nagging sensation of pain for few moments afterwards. The antenna covers a full 360 degrees and the beam can be used to sweep across a crowd or to target one person at a time. It’s got safety cutoffs so it doesn’t cause permanent damage, according to John Patterson, a Raytheon spokesman.

The Silent Guardian is one variant of Raytheon’s Active Denial Systems, most of which provide area-wide protections against weapons such as missiles.

Non-lethals have been in development for a very long time. The first big burst of enthusiasm hit in the mid-1990s when the Pentagon created its first non-lethal office. Most of those technologies foundered — such as sticky foam — among concerns that non-lethals might hurt people, which always seemed ironic given that high velocity bullets and bombs are considered legal.

In addition to the Marines, the National Institute of Justice is investigating development of a much smaller version of Silent Guardian for police and other homeland security forces.

-- Colin Clark

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Posted by: luxury watch at April 17, 2009 02:16 AM

imagine this being used as an area denial or containment weapon- the closer you get to the source the more pain and possible damage you may inflict upon yourself- preservation mechanism would kick in and force you to retreat at some point- would make excellent containment area perimeter weapon- if detainee could indeed circumvent first level security (fences/guards/gates/cell containment), and this weapon is improved for extended ranges, would virtually make escape an impossibility, with limited human personel on the ground doing the security-

and I am in agreement with other comment- this technology will be improved upon until it will be adjustable strength at any given distance(possibly great distance), to the point the operator can selectfire from a discomfort level to a kill level-

this technology is highly desired by military forces at this time- they're trained for what?

Posted by: anon at February 25, 2009 10:50 PM

Wow, these comments are frightening. Who's going to protect the world from the US military?

Posted by: Alex at February 13, 2009 06:42 AM

The only danger that is ever present with a 'non-lethal' weapon is that some muppet operating the thing may think it is actually non-lethal and go nuts on someone with it. Consider your fists. They are non-lethal. But if you just kept beating someone in the face you could kill them pretty quick.

Posted by: jim at October 14, 2008 02:37 PM

My suggestion would be to test this thing out on all of the hippie war protesters first, and after we fry all of them, use it on the fence jumpers along our southern border and then in the military prison camps to make the enemy sing.

Posted by: Brian at October 13, 2008 03:23 PM

Why not use it in the prison system? A minimum secrity prison would be a great testing ground.

Posted by: PHIL at October 13, 2008 07:07 AM

it is only non-lethal because they just do not havve the power to make it lethal..
and believe - they will make it deadly as quickly as they can.

Posted by: mole at October 12, 2008 04:40 AM

1:TEST THIS ON OUR SOUTHERN BORDER FIRST , OF COURSE CONSIDERING THE FOOD THEY EAT,,, THEY MIGHT THINK IT WAS A REAL "" GOOD "" CASE HEARTBURN.
2:Amen & about Time, test this on the US Mex border.
3:WHY TEST IT ON PEOPLE THAT ARE DOING THE JOBS WE DON'T WANT TO DO BECAUSE OF THE LOW PAY?

Posted by: CG at October 11, 2008 06:39 PM

What will this thing to somebody"s Eyes?
Try it on the border first..

Posted by: J at October 11, 2008 03:48 PM

Are caps really necessary?

Posted by: Stu at October 10, 2008 02:12 PM

I AGREE TEST THIS ON OUR SOUTHERN BORDER FIRST , OF COURSE CONSIDERING THE FOOD THEY EAT,,, THEY MIGHT THINK IT WAS A REAL "" GOOD "" CASE HEARTBURN

Posted by: RUSSell Hayes at October 10, 2008 11:06 AM

My car used to have a govenor too! I like it!

Posted by: c dooley at October 10, 2008 07:41 AM

This sounds remarkably like the Air Force / Army "Active Denial" system. Their system has already been deployed to Iraq.

I too "put my finger on the pain button," but I was at an air show at Kirkland AFB several years ago.

Are the Marines are reinventing the wheel?

Posted by: CTR1(SW) at October 10, 2008 06:53 AM

I can think of some good applications of this to create better kill zones....
Just because it's non-lethal, doesn't make it useless tactically. :D

Posted by: Scathsealgaire at October 9, 2008 07:44 PM

"...which always seemed ironic given that high velocity bullets and bombs are considered legal."

Yep, I love the snark you hear about nonlethals from the bien pensants such as tasers and this system; anything short of giving out free BJs to terrorists/criminals is entirely too much force for that crowd.

Posted by: Vercingetorix at October 9, 2008 06:34 PM

I know the 250m range sounds limited but this is a weapon to be used in support of lethal weapons and as a tactic you can use before you are forced to use lethal force. In terms of base defenses it could be setup between two ridges of Constantino wire so that if anyone breeches the first area then they are stuck in pain in the open. Sounds good to me

Posted by: Cadet SF at October 9, 2008 04:33 PM

They need to make this thing have a longer range than 250 meters. A guy with an AK can shoot further, they should make the range about 400 meters or more that way it might be able to stop a would be attacker, possibly even a sniper at a range a bit longer than most of our soldiers are zeroed to shoot at. Give them the non-lethal reach out and touch someone approach.

Posted by: Ed at October 9, 2008 12:02 PM

Considering the picture, I'd say it's already mobile, if that is this heat ray thing. But it is about time, good for riot control without a doubt, and protecting bases.

Posted by: Stu at October 9, 2008 11:08 AM

Amen & about Time, test this on the US Mex border & Iraq.
Must make mobile for riot use.
For US Embassies.
Radical.
Use on ships vs pirates?

Posted by: stephen russell at October 9, 2008 08:23 AM

Marines Fund Non-Lethal Heat Ray

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