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Old 05-01-08, 01:34 PM   #1
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Originally Posted by Mikhayl
Agreed Steve, I hope that this stuff will get lost like the Greek Fire circa 1400 something I think. There's a story about a frenchman who rediscovered the formula by mistake circa 1700, he submitted it to Louis XV who ditched it and paid the man not to reveal the formula to anyone else, because the effects were so terrible that he thought it was inhuman to use it
Millimeter wave based radar and beam rays are not something that are secret. So as the saying goes, if the US didn't build it, someone else will.

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Old 05-01-08, 02:55 PM   #2
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It's called the Active Denial System. I'm sure we'll see it deployed at the conventions this summer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
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