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Apr 12, 2007
Tesla Death Beam on a Humvee
As much as I hate to beat a dead horse, I think I should call “Tesla” on another modern military system. The Army Times reported last week that an airman at Moody AFB in Georgia was injured in a test of the directed energy ‘heat-beam’. The 50,000 volt, humvee-mounted system fires a ‘less than lethal’ beam of energy that makes people feel as if they are about to catch fire.
Let it be known far and wide that in the last stages of Nikola Telsa’s life he declared that he had devised a directed energy “Death Ray” that would end all war. In 1934 the New York Times ran the Headline “Tesla, at Age 78, Bares New Death Beam”
Ah Ha……..
Comments
Oct 20, 2008 12:25 PM
Guest :
...Tesla's death beam was an accelerated particle weapon. The weapon you
are referring to is a directed microwave weapon. The two could not be
farther apart in theory or operation.
Additionally, Tesla's
proposed death beam was a weapon of unparallelled destructive capability,
while the directed microwave weapon you speak of us a non-lethal crowd
control weapon. While Tesla's weapon was designed to pierce any armor and
deal massive thermal and concussive force to the target (notably machines -
specifically airplanes), this directed microwave weapon is not at all
useful against vehicles, or anyone protecting themselves with sufficient
cover. Certain objects actually make "sufficient cover" for this
microwave weapon... such as a bed mattress. This wouldn't even provide a
shred of defense against Tesla's weapon. It doesn't hurt to do a bit of
research, you know.
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