These service personnel playing the role of an unruly mom at George’s Moody Air Force Base. We’re about to fall prey to an invisible ray. The hulking panel atop this Humvee as part of what the US military calls the Active Denial System or Ades. It’s designed to incapacitate enemy combat with an unnerving non lethal sensation of intense heat. Watch as the ray silently strikes and scatters the crowd.
Active Denial System has three great.
Characteristics. First of all, it’s safe. Second, it’s effective. Yet third, it has a.
Tremendous range compared to the other non lethal weapons that today’s warfighter has.
This is the alert of this hundred.
Kilowatt transmitter. This is the.
Gyrotron. 200 kilowatts of electricity is fed in and 100 lots of radio frequency comes out. That millimeter.
Wave energy comes out at aperture underneath the main reflector, hits the sub reflector, which.
Illuminates that main reflector. And since our lovely antenna size being downright, shouldn’t we get a shape? Those holes.
That you see in the antenna are for the cameras and other visual equipment that the operator.
Uses so that he knows exactly where.
That beam is going.
It’s operated by Joyce. The operator looks into the console and sees exactly what that antenna is aimed at, moves joystick left. The antenna slues.
To the left, same way to the right. Then when there’s an individual who’s identified as a troublemaker, he has a cursor. He can put that cursor on that individual, pull the trigger that’s on the joystick, and the energy is sent downrange at the speed of light.
The electromagnetic radiation released by the Active Denial System is similar to the microwaves in your microwave oven, in that it causes the water molecules in the target to become excited and heat up. But that’s where the similarity ends. The ads is designed to heat only the very surface of the skin. It does this by outputting only the carefully chosen radio wave frequency of 95 gigahertz. Even though it can easily penetrate clothing, the ads generates a much shorter and safer wavelength of radio waves than those used in microwave buttons.
The Active Denial System millimeter wave directed energy beam reaches 164th of an inch into human skin. So that is the most outermost layer of the skin, roughly equivalent to about three sheets of notebook paper. It is essentially affecting the pain nurse in the outermost layer of the skin. Eating them up can cause an immediate repel effect.
Even these stoic servicemen aware of what’s about to happen engage can’t help but flinch when they feel the heat.
This is the first time I’ve experienced the beam from the Active Denial System. And it feels like an intense warmth feeling kind of similar doping a very hot oven door. And it’s a compelling feeling that you want to get out of the way of this beam. If you were not expecting this, it would very definitely shock you and make you our move.
The ads represents just the latest effort to devise an effective ray weapon.
Marines and several other DOD representatives had quite the heated demonstration at Chronicle, Virginia from the Joint Non Lethal Weapons Direct to it. This is.
A military area. Move away from the perimeter. I say again, this is a military area. Move away.
From the perimeter. Their new Active Denial System boasts a reach far beyond any other non lethal system. Well, it’s.
A versatile system. And.
It has a range of non lethal capability that we can’t even come close to with any of our fielded systems today that are in our military forces.
About seven football fields, to give it some perspective on a military perimeter all the way up to a riotous crowd, all without permanent harm.
It only penetrates one six fourth of an inch of your skin, goes very shallow.
Into where your nerve receptors are. And there’s no perfect cause diet. I mean, very safe system margins and.
Training for the operators.
They even let any of the guests volunteer to test out its effectiveness and safety, including the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, sergeant major of the Marine Corps and assistant secretary of the Navy. Most described it as feeling like a hot oven or grill being opened up.
It is something that, once again, probably the safest system that we’ve developed is as far as.