<HTML>The Village Voice - die renommierte New Yorker Zeitschrift - bringt einen Artikel über Mikrowellen-Waffen, worin das amerikanische Verteidigungsministerium mit der Aussage zitiert wird, die Mikrowellen-Waffe sei der größte Durchbruch in der Waffentechnologie seit der Atombombe.
Hier Auszüge aus dem kritischen Beitrag:
Weapon of the Week
by George Smith
The Microwave Phaser
December 4 - 10, 2002
The Pentagon has always craved a phaser. Now it's turning to microwaving as a potential means of singeing the enemy. The Department of Defense's bland name for this electronic heat ray is the Vehicle-Mounted Active Denial (VMAD) system...the VMAD is a giant version of your microwave oven, without the safety box surrounding it...
What is the microwaver's target? It must be unarmed civilians, because as described, the VMAD wouldn't seem to offer much against terrorists or regular soldiers ready to fire back with conventional weapons... In one manic, grandiose claim, the Defense Department calls VMAD "the biggest breakthrough in weapons technology since the atomic bomb."
The lust for military microwaving has also been a sinkhole for tax dollars. While much of the work remains deep in the shadows, the Directed Energy Directorate does allow that $40 million went out the door for the VMAD over the last decade. An additional $15 million was awarded to ITT Industries for research on high-power microwaving applications in bombs and other types of ray guns...
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