Coming To A Police Force, Private 'Security' or Stormtroopers near you soon!

[Jan Klimkowski]

The development of supposedly "non-lethal" weaponry over the past couple of decades can be summed up in the following three quotes:

CLAIMED VOLKLAND SECURITY ASPIRATION:

Mike Booen, a vice president for advanced security at Raytheon told the Daily News, “If you got in the way, you’ll know. … When you get that many of your pain receptacles telling you brain ‘This needs to stop,’ you can’t think of anything else,” Booen said. “And that tends to be very effective.”

CLAIMED VOLKLAND SECURITY ACHIEVEMENT:

Commander Bob Osborne, the director of the Sheriff’s Department Technology Exploration Program told the Daily News, “We hope that this type of technology will either cause an inmate to stop an assault or lessen the severity of an assault by them being distracted by the pain as a result of the beam.”

Touted as a more humane form of control, Osborne, with the best of intentions no doubt, told reporter C.J. Lin its deployment will have a deterrent effect so “that we have fewer injuries, fewer assaults, those kinds of things.”

THE GRISLY REALITY OF "NON-LETHAL" WEAPONRY:

“While the device was being tested by the Air Force,” the ACLU stated, “a miscalibration of the device’s power settings caused five airmen in its path to suffer lasting burns, including one whose injuries were so severe that he was airlifted to an off-base burn treatment center.”

I'd like to think the maimed airman wasn't scraped off the tarmac like an overcooked and charred fried egg.

But I suspect his reduction to sizzling whopper status was horrific and irreversible.

These crimes will continue because the entirely fraudulent construct that is the Volkland Security apparatus is simply the latest neo-fascist vampire feeding on taxpayer dollars........

According to Homeland Security Market Research, while the economic downturn “has had an adverse effect on the 2010 US Private Sector Homeland Security (HLS) market … the market is positioned to recover strongly in the 2011-2014 period.”

[Peter Lemkin]

Pain Beam to Get Tougher, Smaller, More Powerful
18th June 2010


Also see: “Stop – or I’ll use the pain ray”
Pain Beam to Get Tougher, Smaller, More Powerful

By David Hambling | Wired | February 6, 2009

The Pentagon’s pain beam weapon could get tougher, smaller, more powerful, and more mobile under a series of new research and development projects. And that could pave the way for the so-called “Active Denial System” to finally be sent to war.

The Pentagon first unveiled ADS in 2001. But in spite of repeated calls to send the system to Iraq for crowd control, the weapon has been held up by a series of legal, political, and technical issues. However, recent contracts may show the way forward for ADS, which zaps the target with a painful, but mostly harmless, microwave blast. The idea is to start building 20 of the revamped systems, beginning in three years.

First off, the pain weapons are going to get tougher. The military is fit the system into an Mine Resistant, Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored vehicle that has become the infantry transport of choice overseas. System 1 of the ADS was mounted in a Hummer, System 2 is a containerized system that takes a sizable truck to haul it. Which sounds like a recipe for turning the beam weapon into a sitting duck. No wonder the military is calling for “studies for the integration of Directed Energy Non-lethal Active Denial Key Systems onto mine resistant armored personnel (MRAP) vehicles.”

Secondly, get more sophisticated. The current system is gigantic, partly because of the requirement for supercooling — System 1 would not function in very hot weather. So a Broad Area Announcement last month calls for for “alternative design concepts” to reduce the volume and weight of each of the System’s four components: the power generation/storage/conditioning, thermal management, beam source and antenna.

We know a little more about what’s going on from the Joint Nonlethal Weapons Program’s newsletter. It mentions that compact solid state beam sources are being investigated that are much smaller than the existing monster Gyrotron. They’re also looking at a sheet beam Klystron, an advanced amplifier technology which could “increase system power by six-fold.”

Last time the military tried to shrink the ADS to fit a smaller vehicle it was not a success; they ended up with a beam which was only 400 watts (compared to about 100 kilowatts) and did not have the range and power needed. It was deleted from an experimental, nonlethal-weapons-packed vehicle program. On the other hand, the action-packed, game-show style field test of the low-power ADS looked amazing…but this time they will be aiming for better results.

All the previous Active Denial Systems have been built by Raytheon; the company even makes a commercial version, Silent Guardian. But this is a competitive contract, calling for at least two contractors and no favoritism.

Thirdly, it’s going to have a new name. The official documents have now started referring to the vehicle-mounted version of the pain ray as Mobile ADS, contracted to MADS. This is probably because other versions, such as the Portable ADS or PADS are in the pipeline. I always thought that “Active Denial” was a weak name, but calling it MADS may not be an improvement… cue a slew of bad insanity jokes. Perhaps Danger Room readers can suggest a better name, preferably based on an acronym?
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/02/...z0rGiKVFTK