<HTML>Nach einem amerikanischen Zeitungsbericht soll die anti-personen Mikrowellen-Waffe ab Mai im Feld getested werden ("field testing will begin in May"
. Dies sagte ein Offizieller der Elektronik- und Rüstungsfirma Raytheon, ohne den Irak zu nennen.
Der Titel des Artikels: Transforming rays into weapons (Strahlen in Waffen verwandeln).
Tucson Citizen
Raytheon develops nonlethal directed-energy gun
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Stopping an adversary in his boots with a nonlethal ray gun is no longer just a sci-fi pipe dream, according to a local defense contract official.
Nonlethal directed-energy scientists have tested a weapon that does just that, only on a slightly larger scale than a handgun, said Wade W. Smith, deputy of Raytheon Missile Systems' Directed Energy Weapons division...</HTML>