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    Active denial system uses heat ray

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Military says when it comes to non lethal technology the future is now but I learned that nonlethal can also mean not pleasant.

You can't see it hear it or smell it but it makes -- -- mobs huge -- The Defense Department active denial system and non lethal weapon that can be used to control crowds secure perimeters and keep pirates at bay.

It could be a game changer sort of things that we can shoot first and ask questions later.

-- you can't do.

The military says the active denial system is not radioactive it's not a microwave and it's not a laser beam -- instead.

A man sized beam of millimeter waves the can be fired from a to a thousand meters away that are designed to get the subject whoever -- -- on this X.

Really really hot.

So that they move.

It's about fifty degrees out here right now but I just felt like it was about a thousand and I never been inside a tub that somebody dropped -- hair dryer and but I would imagine that that's what it feels like.

After about one point five seconds 164.

Of an inch of my skin was a 130 degrees but as soon as I stepped away it was over and the DOD says there aren't any lingering -- It's -- there's no.

Cancer risk there's no.

Risk to a fetus -- reproductive capability.

It's just heat.

But the DOD admits this system does have a drawback.

We are propagating through the air we are therefore relatively line of sight.

And so we need to -- line of -- -- targets a prototype costs ten million dollars and there are no plans to deploy one any time soon.

And marine base wanna go in Virginia.

Peter Doocy.

Fox News.

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