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The Active Denial System (ADS) is a non-lethal directed-energy weapon developed by the U.S. military, [2] designed for area denial, perimeter security and crowd control. [3] Informally, the weapon is also called the heat ray [4] since it works by heating the surface of targets, such as the skin of targeted human beings.
On October 22, 2012, Boeing announced a successful test of the missile. [3] CHAMP disabled seven different targets before self-destructing over empty desert. [4] [5]The U.S. Air Force expected to have technology for a steerable counter-electronics weapon “available” in 2016, when a multi-shot, multi-target, high-power microwave (HPM) package would be tested aboard an AGM-86 ALCM.
The ADS is a non-lethal, directed-energy weapon developed by the US military, [40] designed for area denial, perimeter security and crowd control. [41] Informally, the weapon has also been referred to as a "heat ray", [ 42 ] since it works by heating the surface of targets, such as the skin of targeted human subjects.
Weapons that go beyond non-lethal intentions and cause 'superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering' may also violate the Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1977." [102] Some common bio-effects of non-lethal electromagnetic weapons include: Difficulty breathing; Disorientation; Nausea; Pain; Vertigo; Other systemic discomfort
It is similar in use and design to the M18A1 Claymore mine, but is non-lethal. Used for area denial, standoff situations, crowd control (i.e. outside embassies) by law enforcement and military services, the MCCM is effective to around 30 meters covering a 60–to-80 degree horizontal arc, with a minimum safe standoff distance of five meters ...
The Department of Defense announced 14 new contracts Tuesday, worth a combined $727.6 million. Of these, the contract won by General Dynamics wasn't the biggest -- that title went to London's ...
Counter-drone and non-lethal directed energy weapons; Ground vehicle sensors and weapons; Ground based operational surveillance system; The division's products included: Active Denial System non-lethal millimeter wave weapon; AGM-65 Maverick air-to-surface missile; AGM-88 HARM air-to-surface missile; AGM-129 ACM air-to-surface missile
Other times, he said, groups of officers have simultaneously fired handguns and "less-lethal" weapons — a trend confirmed by a Times review of nearly 50 LAPD shootings between January 2020 and ...