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Pentagon To Use Directed Energy Weapons In Iraq
The Pentagon's Office of Force Transformation is retrofitting
ground vehicles in service in Iraq with combined lethal and non-lethal weapons.
The Stars and Stripes reported Tuesday the program, dubbed "Project
Sheriff," should give U.S. Army and Marines working in urban terrain
more options, especially with potential noncombatants or civilians being
used as human shields.
By next summer, the Pentagon hopes to equip four to six U.S. Army and Marine
Corps vehicles with a combination of off-the-shelf technology and systems
still being developed to be used for armed reconnaissance, raids, crowd
control, security patrol and vehicle checkpoints.
Among the weapons under consideration is the Raytheon Co.'s non-lethal Active
Denial System, a counter-personnel directed energy weapon that projects
a speed-of-light millimeter wave of energy that makes a person's skin feel
like it's on fire.
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