U.S. May Debut Secret Microwave Weapon Versus Iraq

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-02-03 10:18pm

Hyperion wrote:What's really funny, for about $200 you can make your own personal antipersonnel microwave gun, capable of lethal effect at about 200 yards if the waveguide is rigged right... I've made'em and tested them on squirrels, they are just too much fun, no light, no sound, just dead. (sometimes *pop* from a steam explosion in the brainbox though)

Holy crap!

I'm gonna be a REAL stormtrooper! I have the armor, the head set walkie-talkies, and now a LASER GUN! My life is complete! I can happily say I've been to the future and it is cool! Whoa.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-03 10:20pm

hey, if that microwave thingy works it´s gonna be damn cool weapon.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-02-03 10:23pm

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:
Hyperion wrote:What's really funny, for about $200 you can make your own personal antipersonnel microwave gun, capable of lethal effect at about 200 yards if the waveguide is rigged right... I've made'em and tested them on squirrels, they are just too much fun, no light, no sound, just dead. (sometimes *pop* from a steam explosion in the brainbox though)
Holy crap!

I'm gonna be a REAL stormtrooper! I have the armor, the head set walkie-talkies, and now a LASER GUN! My life is complete! I can happily say I've been to the future and it is cool! Whoa.

Shouldn't it be, I've been to the future, and it is Star Wars.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-02-03 10:26pm

neoolong wrote:Shouldn't it be, I've been to the future, and it is Star Wars.

I stand firmly corrected.

Prepare yourself human race, for one day Earth shall be renamed Coruscant!

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-02-04 06:03am

Warspite wrote:Uhh, can the microwaves reach deep heavily-shielded bunkers?

Yes, they can travel down airshafts and through existing wiring. Shielding is possibul, but difficult for a bunker. And while you might save what's inside, your communication links area going to die.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-02-04 06:06am

Admiral Valdemar wrote:I hope they use directed energy weapons too against troops, the US has Hummers with RDF planar arrays on that emit wide beams of MW energy that can do everything from scold that man to melt that car.

That's still in testing, there's concern it might destroy your eyesight if your looking at the emitter when its on the riot control mode. If that's the case, then its an illegal blinding weapon.

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-02-04 06:22am

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Warspite wrote:Uhh, can the microwaves reach deep heavily-shielded bunkers?
Yes, they can travel down airshafts and through existing wiring. Shielding is possibul, but difficult for a bunker. And while you might save what's inside, your communication links area going to die.

Thanks!

(Now, continuing with my story ideia... hummm)

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-02-04 06:51am

HEADLINE wrote:U.S. May Debut Secret Microwave Weapon Versus Iraq

*cut to newsdesk with WMA sitting behind it shuffling a stack of papers, the regular newsreader is nowhere to be seen, WMA looks a bit flustered*

Iraqi hot-pockets not safe...

In a press briefing today, secretary of defense Donald Rumsfield outlined a plan to use new EMP/Microwave weapons to sap the morale of Iraqi populace should they choose to resist the great army of democracy and white picket fence values. These weapons would be deployed against Iraqi food supply areas in an effort to make it all inedible. "Have you ever had a microwaved bit of meat? Its not pleasant. Now, imagine that you have just placed the contents of your fridge in your microwave and set it on high for an hour. Its not going to be pretty is it?" There is a concern however that should twinkies be exposed to this new weapon that a race of super-intelligent blacmanges may evolve attempt to win Wimbledon. Several groups are threatening law suits against the US government should the weapon be used. Leading the charge is the 7/11 chain, who are concerned that the microwaving of all the food within the store may actually make it edible. *looks around nervously* Sources within the Pentagon say that the weapon underwent testing last year in Taco Bell restaurants in the mid-West. *glances stage right, sweat begins to bead on forhead* Urban Legends About Animals campaigner Josef Maloney argues that any dogs exposed to the weapon may spontaneously explode much like that one in the story about the *stage is rushed by men in white coats*

*cut to: Test Screen, complete with elevator music*

We apologise for this break in transmission and will return to your regular programming as soon as possible.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-02-04 07:21am

Hyperion wrote:What's really funny, for about $200 you can make your own personal antipersonnel microwave gun, capable of lethal effect at about 200 yards if the waveguide is rigged right... I've made'em and tested them on squirrels, they are just too much fun, no light, no sound, just dead. (sometimes *pop* from a steam explosion in the brainbox though)

um...yeah. thats messed up. although if i were to come across a corn silo while armed with one of those....

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-02-04 08:08am

I guess MW energy weapons are a little better in ways due to being able to produce that EMP effect like particle-beam cannons and nukes and also able to act without lethal force.

I should imagine the broad beam, unlike a focused and tight laser beam, would be good at sweeping by loads of troops and boiling their brains, plus apart from some slight heat haze, you'd not notice a thing I bet, silent and quick death.