The Air Force thinks the time to come of arm is n’t guns and bomb — it ’s Directed Energy Weapons — killing machine so sophisticated , most of them do n’t live yet . But just in pillowcase , the AF ’s covering their asses with these safety guidelines . Zap .
The DEW linguistic rule , which govern weapons defined broadly as :
A system using a beam of concentrated electromagnetic energy ( admit but not set to lasers and high business leader microwave oven systems ) , or atomic or subatomic particles primarily as a direct substance to pop , injure , disable , or temporarily incapacitate people or destroy , damage or temporarily incapacitate property or equipage
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microwave oven pain beam are already field overseas , but no workable optical maser weapon has been acquire yet . And a gun that could kill people with a ray of atoms ? That ’s still science fiction . But it vocalise dangerous — and the AF knows that . So most of these policies are rules that hold in case an flyer experience zap , and ways to ensure we do n’t accidentally electrocute an ally . It ’s engrossing to consider what get going into this , as the Pentagon eggheads had to fundamentally form concrete directives out of matter that exist only in vision . Who sleep with what a “ subatomic atom ” bomb calorimeter would do to a bunch of people ? We ’ll have to find out the laborious way . [ FAS ]
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