The Village Voice - die renommierte New Yorker Zeitschrift - bringt
einen Artikel über Mikrowellen-Waffen, worin das amerikanische
Verteidigungsministerium mit der Aussage zitiert wird, die
Mikrowellen-Waffe sei der größte Durchbruch in der Waffentechnologie
seit der Atombombe.
Hier Auszüge aus dem kritischen Beitrag:
Weapon of the Week
by George Smith
The Microwave Phaser
December 4 - 10, 2002
The Pentagon has always craved a phaser. Now it’s turning to
microwaving as a potential means of singeing the enemy. The
Department of Defense’s bland name for this electronic heat ray is
the Vehicle-Mounted Active Denial (VMAD) system…the VMAD is a giant
version of your microwave oven, without the safety box surrounding
it…
What is the microwaver’s target? It must be unarmed civilians,
because as described, the VMAD wouldn’t seem to offer much against
terrorists or regular soldiers ready to fire back with conventional
weapons… In one manic, grandiose claim, the Defense Department
calls VMAD “the biggest breakthrough in weapons technology since the
atomic bomb.”
The lust for military microwaving has also been a sinkhole for tax
dollars. While much of the work remains deep in the shadows, the
Directed Energy Directorate does allow that $40 million went out the
door for the VMAD over the last decade. An additional $15 million was
awarded to ITT Industries for research on high-power microwaving
applications in bombs and other types of ray guns…
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