Paralyzing Floodlight : It is Made to be Used on YOU

[Project]

Well, this ought to chill out anyone who was worried about a robotic uprising: our mechanical overlords may not kill us right away. At first, they just might zap us with a paralyzing burst of light (http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/02/20/212135/uavs-put-the-sting-into-crowd-control.html).
The US Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (http://www.aatd.eustis.army.mil/) (AATD) plans to demonstrate the use of a 7.5 million candlepower strobe floodlight system mounted on board an unmanned air vehicle as a non-lethal crowd-control system," the always-linkworthy Flight International tells us.



The project will see a Peak Beam Systems (http://www.peakbeam.com/) searchlight adapted to operate as a strobe capable of inducing physical effects, such as short-term paralysis, in humans.
AATD plans to award contacts to the Edgemont, Pennsylvania-based Peak Systems for the modified searchlight in March, with demonstrations within 12 months.
US government acquisition records released on 9 February say the sole source contract calls for Peak Systems to "design and fabricate a light-based immobilisation system/deterrent device and integrate it with an unmanned aerial system. This will include any necessary medical research on frequency and amplitude modulation of high-intensity light that will cause immobilisation to all those within the beam."
The system uses a xenon-based searchlight that "can be pulsed with a unique modulation [strobe] effect that results in immobilisation to those within the beam. This effort will transition the lamp from a handheld/vehicle mounted system to an airborne platform."
But that's not the only flying robot / ray gun combo the U.S. military is examining. The Air Force is also toying with the idea of mounting its Active Denial System pain weapon (http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72134-0.html) on a drone, too. Just so the robots can make us feel like we're on fire, before they temporarily blind us.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/02/new_roboweapon_.html

Just another example of your tax dollars hard at work to fund technology to be used against you in case you ever get uppity. This is not for the far-flung battlefield, this is for domestic urban crowd control.

They will be equipped on drones, unmanned aerial or ground vehicles that can be sent into a crowd to disperse them or take them down. The Pain Weapon mentioned above, and already in use, will most likely be paired with this so you are immobilized (paralyzed) and then sent into agonizing pain, all remotely, all without anyone needing to pull a trigger (or have the chance to feel mercy).

Good luck with that.

[SquidInk]

They call it "Full-Spectrum Dominance." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_dominance) The sooner free people everywhere acknowledge the fact we are in a low grade combat situation, the sooner we can begin to implement asymmetric resistance tactics on a large scale, & in co-ordinated ways. (no, not armed rebellion, imho)

Since WW2 (to keep it simple) TPTB have been actively engaged in the largest covert military operation in human history. We have been lied to all the days of our lives (unless there is an octogenarian reading this) by the very entities sworn to defend us. In the case of the USA, the belligerent party is the very same one sworn to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..." :disgust: We have offered no resistance to this aggression for decades.

It's not a left/right issue. It's a conflict of baseline values. No amount of voting will change the situation. It is beyond the ballot box, it is nearly beyond all hope.

[Project]

They call it "Full-Spectrum Dominance." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_dominance) The sooner free people everywhere acknowledge the fact we are in a low grade combat situation, the sooner we can begin to implement asymmetric resistance tactics on a large scale, & in co-ordinated ways. (no, not armed rebellion, imho)

Since WW2 (to keep it simple) TPTB have been actively engaged in the largest covert military operation in human history. We have been lied to (unless there is an octogenarian reading this) all the days of our lives by the very entities sworn to defend us. In the case of the USA, the belligerent party is the very same one sworn to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..." :disgust: We have offered no resistance to this aggression for decades.

No amount of voting will change this situation. It is beyond the ballot box, it is nearly beyond all hope.

agreed. We need anti-non-lethal weapons information and equipment... however, it really is nearly too late if not too late, the imbalance of power and information is nearly total. It will be to my mind quite similar to the opening scenes of terminator in terms of what can be brought to bear on the populace if desired.

You are nothing, the machine is everything. The machine must be made to persist. The machine knows all and hears all. The machine is hungry.

[Project]

see also:

MEDUSA_(weapon)

Dazzler_(weapon)

Long_range_acoustic_device

Sonic_weaponry

Sticky_foam

Electroshock_weapon

Incapacitant

Directed_Energy_Weapons

Electromagnetic_Weapon

all just for you.

[SquidInk]

Thanks Project...


agreed. We need anti-non-lethal weapons information and equipment... however, it really is nearly too late if not too late, the imbalance of power and information is nearly total. It will be to my mind quite similar to the opening scenes of terminator in terms of what can be brought to bear on the populace if desired.


Well, I agree it's nearly to late - but not because of an imbalance of power (weapons, info). The "people" have the ultimate advantage - the law of large numbers. However, this is counteracted by destroying the capacity of entire generations to resist (by many methods), so in that respect, all is nearly lost. But I believe if we stood united against them today, by the hundreds of millions, we could easily defeat them. It ain't gonna happen. The "people" want to cast votes instead - you know, play the assigned role.