Air Force to research non-lethal directed energy

Air Force to research non-lethal directed energy weapon ‘bioeffects’ to create new exotic weaponry




'While it may sound like complete science
fiction, the Air Force is actually preparing to spend $49 million to
research the biological effects of non-lethal directed energy weapons
in hopes of creating future weapons that manipulate the body on a
biochemical or molecular level.

This may sound wildly farfetched
but given that the military has researched unbelievable “human
enhancement” technologies, weaponized hallucinations, autonomous robotic
jellyfish, insect-sized killer drones and fully automated “killer
robots,” this shouldn’t be all that surprising.'
Furthermore, the US military has already developed a wide range of directed energy (DE) weapons ranging from the defunct Airborne Laser program to a “heat ray” and an overall greater emphasis on directed energy weapons of all kinds.

The Air Force Bioeffects Division recently announced
a new program testing how “directed energy, riot control agents,
broadband light, acoustic sounds, and blunt impact materials” change the
body.

While many people may not be familiar with radio
frequency (RF) and high power microwave (HPM) emitting devices, the US
Air Force says they have “been at the forefront of research on the
biological effects of RF/HPM radiation for more than 30 years.



This latest round of research involves laboratory tests, studies and
field experiments beginning in September of this year with tests in San
Antonio, Texas expected to go on for seven years.

The Air Force announcement posted online points out that the discovery
of new bioeffects could very well have “defensive or offensive”
applications and thus contribute to the “development and deployment of
future DE weapons.”

The Air Force will conduct “proteomic, genomic, and metabolomic studies
that identify critical biochemical or molecular changes following
exposure to DE prior to or during mission operations that assist in the
prediction of health degradation.”

“That could mean looking at how concentrated blasts of radio frequency
waves and high-power microwaves manipulate our proteins, DNA and
metabolites,” Danger Room notes.

The announcement says that they seek to “investigate the basic
mechanism(s) of interaction between biology and RF radiation” while also
discovering “previously unknown bioeffects of RF exposure that may
provide a defensive or offensive capability to the Air Force.”

Perhaps
even greater than the amazingly creepy nature of this type of
technology are the concerns surrounding the diplomatic problems this
type of weaponry could create.

Robert Beckhusen, writing for Danger Room, points out that the military’s Active Denial System was recalled from Afghanistan at least in part due to the “propaganda value it would have given to the Taliban.”

Still, as Beckhusen points out, “in the aftermath of the assault on U.S.
diplomats in Benghazi and the killing of the U.S. ambassador there, the
State Department touted non-lethal energy weapons as one potential defense against embassy attacks.”

While it may not be all that helpful diplomatically, the US military is
clearly pouring money into this type of research to build directed
energy weapons with the intent to actually use them. One can only
struggle imagine what the future of warfare will look like at this
point.

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Source:-
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/04/air-force-to-research-non-lethal.html