Active Denial System Poised for First Iraq Deployment Next Year

By Sebastian Sprenger / August 1, 2008 at 5:00 AM
Military officials could send the Active Denial System, a non-lethal counter-personnel weapon, to Iraq in six to 10 months, according to the director of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, Marine Corps Col. Kirk Hymes. The truck-mounted weapon is used to fire microwave radiation at people, causing an intense burning sensation on the skin. It falls into the emerging class of directed-energy weapons. In late 2005, Marine Corps commanders in Iraq's Al-Anbar province sent an urgent request for a smaller and...

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