"You're Gonna Feel It:" U.S. Military Unveils New Crowd Control "Heat Ray" Weapon

[ShadowLiberal]

39. Sounds like a perfect weapon for terrorists to get their hands on, and dictatorships

Such a weapon sounds like a perfect tool for terrorists to use to cause mass heat strokes, and probably even killings in heavily populated areas. Sure it may not be 'real' heat, but if it feels like unbearable heat it'll hit people just like real heat and cause heat strokes if they can't find a way out of the invisible moving heat zone. Who would suspect a mass heat stroke on a hot day of being caused by a terrorist?

I read a lot of science fiction books, and one book had a very similar device that some terrorists used to try to kill important politicians with (though in the book the terrorists hijacked a low orbit satellite and fired the heat from the satellite at a political rally, rather then shot the heat through a window or an upper story building).

This also sounds like the perfect tool for dictatorships to use. How far do you think the Arab spring would have gotten if the army had sat up in tall buildings around rallies and fired it at the people? The news networks, even the ones not controlled by the dictatorships, would have reported the Arab spring as just a fringe thing that people were quick to lose interest in. Iran showed that you CAN stop those kinds of protest with sheer force, and this would be much easier to deliver sheer force and torture to large groups of people at once.