Originally appeared at ZeroHedge
The extensive use of vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs) in the Middle East has resulted in a significant amount of military and civilian personnel being killed or injured. A new threat is quickly emerging in the West, as ten civilians were mowed down in a horrific van attack earlier this week in Toronto. Since 2014, Europe and North America have been inundated with terrorist led vehicle-ramming attacks against civilians.
According to Stratfor Global Intelligence, a vehicle-ramming attack is a new class of terrorism which is less lethal but could prove more challenging for officials to prevent.
Consequently, the Defense Department’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate’s (JNLWD) top priority since the threat first appeared in the Middle East, has been to advance technologies and capabilities to non-lethally stop both cars, trucks, and even vessels.
One of these non-lethal technologies is the multifrequency Radio-Frequency (RF) Vehicle Stopper (RFVS), which uses a high-power microwave (HPM) to stop cars and trucks in their tracks without damaging the vehicle, or its occupants.
A miniature version of the ray gun to stop vehicle attacks, developed by JNLWD. (Source: Defense One 2018)
As Defense One explains, “The jammer works by targeting the car’s engine control unit causing it to reboot over and over, stalling the engine. Like an invisible hand, the microwaves hold the car in place. “Anything that has electronics on it, these high-powered microwaves will affect,” David Law, who leads JNLWD’s technology division, said in March. “As long as the [radio] is on, it holds the vehicle stopped.”
In a 2012 unclassified directed energy defense report, the inner workings of the RFVS are explained:
” The RFVS system uses high-power magnetron tubes to generate intense RF pulses that interfere with a vehicle’s electronics, rendering it temporarily inoperable. The engine cannot be restarted while the RF is on but is readily restarted once the RF is turned off. Thus, the RFVS system allows for the maintenance of a safe keep-out zone in situations that might otherwise require the use of lethal force. The defined measure of success for this system is a demonstrated, effective capability against more than 80% of the candidate target-vehicle-class list, which includes passenger cars and large vehicles.
As a nonlethal capability, the effects to the target vehicle are short-term and almost always reversible, so that the vehicle is not stranded, which would burden the warfighter with the task of its removal. Moreover, as with all directed-energy weapons, the RFVS system delivers energy at the speed of light. In contrast with other nonlethal vehicle stopping concepts and systems, however, RFVS does not need to be pre-emplaced and has a limitless magazine.”
Figure 1. Illustration of Candidate RFVS System Setup for Checkpoint Protection (Source: DTIC)
Figure 4. Photograph of the RFVS Brassboard System and Demonstration Setup (Source: DTIC)
Defense One indicates RFVS’s original intent was designed for military bases, but with the latest string of vehicle-ramming attacks in Europe and North America, there is a possibility that these ray guns could be placed strategically around cities — in the not too distant future.
“The military is developing the weapon for force protection — as in protecting soldiers and bases. But it has applications for police as well. Placed strategically around cities, it could prevent attacks like the ones in Europe, Canada, the United States, and elsewhere. There are, however, some tricky legal issues involved in using electronic and radio jamming devices in the United States.”
While the military aims to have a working prototype by Fiscal Year 2019, there are concerns about directed energy weapons. Take, for example, the electricity to operate the ray gun is a massive gasoline-powered turbine that generates 300 kilowatts of power. Even though the weapon has shrunk in size, the power-hungry device still requires lots of power.
Defense One notes that JNLWP has two versions of the non-lethal directed energy weapon, one that slides into a small truck bed with a range of about 50 meters and another three times larger with a range of about 200 meters.
In the not too distant future, directed energy weapons for non-lethal applications could be coming to a downtown near you, all in an attempt to thwart terrorist driven vehicle-ramming attacks against civilians.
“Yeah, we get terrorists and madmen mow down people all the time, but rather than fixing our laws so that we don’t get flooded by terrorists and fixing our society so that young people do not feel the need to go on a murderspree (something that was never an issue in the past), we’ll instead invest a few more billions into the military-industrial complex so that we get these expesive toys that rely on the attacker to be retarded enough to not just pick a street without one of these things. I am sure this will fix all our problems, and if it doesn’t, I’m sure the boys in Pentagon will find another solution for just a few more billion.”
You’d have less terrorists if you’d just stop blowing up their countries too – guess there’s no money in that either.
The vehicle cabin would need radioactive protection+ another vehicle to carry around it’s power generator+ radioactive gear.
What solution they can come up for the F35 limited range ? Simply built a stealth aerial tankers.
What solution they can come up to solve the DDG 1000 zummwalt turbine generator problem ? Simply built a stealth tugboats.
After all there are no such limit to USD nor there’s a limit to US debt.
“e do not feel the need to go on a murderspree (something that was never an issue in the past)”
Think harder and deeper, it isnt complicated.
“In these trials, hostile events are found to excess in both adults and children on paroxetine compared with placebo, and are found across indications, and both on therapy and during withdrawal. The rates were highest in children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), where the odds ratio of a hostile event was 17 times greater (95% confidence interval [CI], 2.22–130.0)………
………..Finally, in healthy volunteer studies, hostile events occurred in three of 271 (1.1%) volunteers taking paroxetine, compared with zero in 138 taking placebo [5]. Although not statistically significant, this finding is striking because hostile events are unusual in healthy volunteer trials, and this figure was higher than the rate reported in clinical populations above. GlaxoSmithKline ascribed these episodes to the fact that the volunteers were confined, although this applied to both paroxetine and placebo volunteers. One other healthy volunteer study has reported aggressive behaviour in one volunteer taking sertraline [8].”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564177/
“Govt Exposed for Forcing Foster Kids, Even Toddlers to Take Dangerous Psychotropic Drugs
After years of growing concern, the California state auditor has produced a damning report describing how the state’s 79,000 foster children are being drugged with psychotropic medications at abnormally high rates.
The report found that nearly 12 percent of kids in California’s child welfare system were prescribed psychotropic medications – including antipsychotics, antidepressants and mood stabilizers – during 2014-2015. This compares to a rate of 4 to 10 percent for non-foster kids.
Some of these vulnerable children were drugged “in amounts and dosages that exceeded state guidelines,” with no follow-up by the county to ensure these prescriptions were appropriate. Some counties also violated the law by failing to obtain court or parental approval for psychotropic medications.
California spent $226 million on psychotropic medications for foster kids over the last decade, which amounts to almost 72 percent of total drug spending for foster youth.
The report slams the state and counties for a failure of oversight that has allowed child welfare centers to resort to drugging to control behavior, which can have devastating effects on brain development and health condition.
According to a 2014 investigation by the Los Angeles Daily News:
“…there is substantial evidence of many of the drugs’ dramatic side effects: rapid-onset obesity, diabetes and a lethargy so profound that foster kids describe dozing through school and much of their young lives. Long-term effects, particularly on children, have received little study, but for some psychotropics there is evidence of persistent tics, increased risk of suicide, even brain shrinkage.””
…………..And last but certainly not least, let’s not forget the role of pharmaceutical companies themselves. Drug manufacturers paid $4.6 billion in settlements to federal prosecutors after they misrepresented scientific evidence to illegally market their expensive antipsychotic drugs.
Eli Lilly advised its sales task force: “The competition wins if we are distracted into talking about diabetes.”
And, unsurprisingly, when California tried to rein in those prescribing psychotropic medications to children, doctor and psychiatrist lobbying groups enacted heavy pressure to delay or block pieces of the legislation.
There’s just too much money to be made….”
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http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/psych-meds-put-49-million-americans-risk-cancer
Money whores, just plain SUCK.
Fact is, most of your mass murderers are twisted by SSRI drugs, making mens rea, the responsibility of big pharma. Gee, I wonder why the courts, nor the politicos, never talk about it.
thousands upon thousands upon thousands, and no one wants to know the truth. Instead they want to blame terrorism, or children.
https://ssristories.org/category/research/drugging-children-teens/
““The jammer works by targeting the car’s engine control unit causing it to reboot over and over, stalling the engine.” ————– Uh huh……..? But let’s face it – if you’re going to waste a perfectly good car by filling it with explosives and ramming it into Americans an’ things to blow ’em up then better to use a car that runs with a brick on the accelerator than fancy electronics. I mean…. it’s not like we didn’t have cars in the good ol’ days before smart phones.
The dense microwaves beam supposedly kills off electronic control and expand the engine with heat to a stop. Contrary to their claim this things were lethal in addition being a radioactive hazard. I don’t know what kinds of cabin they’ll make the carrier for operating this but this will affect up to 200m radius regardless where it directed to if I’m not wrong.
I believe they are directional. But may give any civs in the area a warm feeling. :D These also work for stopping vehicles: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8d5455f46732eb767136c7967ec656dd5cfb60d112cda8f3ae59150c376f5276.jpg
thing is, they got to get the herd all supporting the police state apparatus for our “own safety” ..
the faux terrorism incipient of our imperialism is part of that.
It is a radioactive hazards even if you’re not directed by the beam.
This is why I do not stand close to my microwave oven. :)
Yea, you gotta protect them precious two…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M-Tj_o0p6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bHSKns0A1s
I can see somebody has a profit plan. MIC pork is what I see.
The profit keeps the MIC workers going. The usury owns the MIC. The MIC works for usury. The usury, wants globalism.
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“So no, it’s not a hyperbole to say the Banking System is One. We’re not overstating the case when we say it’s just one massive cartel. That the banks own everything, including all the major industries. Oil, Weapons, Pharmaceuticals, Food, Telecom and IT, etc. It’s all one massive monopoly. Controlled from the top down “ ’A total of 737 control 80% of it all”
The Money Power is real and these Swiss gentlemen have done us a favor by crunching the numbers.”
Please Google “The network of global corporate control”
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– “Some even believe we [Rockefeller family] are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – One World, if you will.If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it ” | David Rockefeller | ( see trade deals removing soverignty,immigration, imperialism, and inequality as the effort “to build a more integrated global political and economic structure”)
“This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of one world government. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept.” Zbigniew Brzezinski
the problems of this world are rooted in the oligarchy. Rule by a hegemonic globalist oligarchy is a dystopic future, I’d like to see our world avoid.
Me thinks avoiding it is too late. And I wonder how we can blame the oligarch for winning the inequality game. They only won the game. The problem is the game of inequality as a way of life. The lust for more and more and more. That game we ALL play.
Ask 100 people if they would like to be one of the very very rich oligarch….if even 10 say no, I would give up my next paycheck.
“Capitalism is going to (already gone) deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.” ~ Terence McKenna
In a dog eat dog world, eventually the bigger dogs eat all the little dogs. Now they eat each other.
No argument from me there. The very nature of power and how it is apportioned, ammassed… and the even deeper questions regarding the nature of our being, and what it is about human nature (or maybe nature itself) that creates this propensity to mass up as herds of sheep around sociopathic wolves, that seems to re-occurr over and over again throughought history
They are relevant questions to ask.
Because we are “too easy” maybe :P
“If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
Edward Bernays
Interesting fellow this one. Taught the rich how to better exploit the herd.
They all know about such things. Rules or laws were never going to work to people that determined to be unimpeded with it as was how agreement can never work with party that never want to honor it from the start. What can work in that case ? It’s leverage. Something that the other party would be willing to make concession for or that they can’t ignore for the security of their own.
Right, because rules and laws are for us, not our owners.
There is no leverage, no concession, no way to change it. Because the globalists think they are doing the right thing, and they think the end justifies the means.And they have the wealth, 95% of it, to make things happen in their own way.
roll with it friend…..
“They only won the game”
They won nothing.
wins and losses are counted after the game is over, not while is still underway.
game is over…while the herd still vote for those the are told to vote for…And they call that democracy, while they call worldwide imperialism as spreading freedom :P
There is nothing we can do, to stop it. The rich have the guns, the politicians, the spying apparatus, the wealth, the thugs, and the whatever else they have cooked up in their corporate labs, with which to subdue us.
Please explain how the game is “still underway.”
“Please explain how the game is “still underway.””
Not wasting 30 seconds of life to explain anything to you.
“game is over…while the herd still vote for those the are told to vote for…And they call that democracy, while they call worldwide imperialism as spreading freedom :P.”
heap of bs even not fully in context with previous post.
your zionist, globalist masters will submit to justice either peacefully, by accepting the deconflicting diplomatic moves of the debt-free world, or precipitate the world in a war they already lost, be razed to the ground and salt spread over the places they even stepped on once.
“Not wasting 30 seconds of life to explain anything to you.”
Right, because you have jack shit to say, just disbeLIEf of what is logical, factual, and in your face.
And only a moron misses the connection between fixing the “game”. and those politicians which the fools still vote for. The herds looks to bought and paid for politicos, to fix the game. And they will continue to do so, the worse things become. Relevant AND material.
As to the imperialism, and your fake democracy being BS, well my fine little furry mentally deficient voter, you are a mass murderer, doing imperialism on countries your masters want to subdue and control. That is a matter of fact, not BS.
“your zionist, globalist masters will submit to justice either peacefully, by accepting the deconflicting diplomatic moves of the debt-free world, or precipitate the world in a war”
ROFLMAO, got any of those drugs you are taking for sharing? Only a moron blames Zionists for the actions of money power. Zionists are no different than American politicians. Tools for the rich, to enforce globalist policy.
While the herd doesn’t even admit the globalism, the herd doesn’t understand the debt, and a world war will kill those who do not have the resources to hide away safe and sound during and after. Sorry to burst your dirty bubble, but the very rich do have somewhere to stash themselves, while the missiles fly. We do not.,
try again, this time try some logic alongside your thoughts. Challenge to point, so I can wipe the floor with your BS>
I see you clearly.. and many like you, running to the polls, cheering on the murder. Patriotic nationalists. BeLIEvers.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
☛ Newsweek: “A Cult of Ignorance” by Isaac Asimov
Washington, Hell Aviv and Moscow have guns that can not only disable trucks, but some personnel.
also, the aliens.
have you read about those ufo encounters where some poor bastard is driving and all of a sudden his car engine stops under a flying saucer and then he’s abducted.
Someone should welcome the Pentagon to the high power microwave technology of ten years ago. S-band vehicle ECU disruptors with a mind-blowing range of 200 m? Wow.
Ten years ago, those evil, backwards Russians had the first generation of their 500 MW X-band RF directed energy weapon – the Ranets-E. It could probably stop a vehicle at 10 km…permanently. They didn’t field them at the time because they were too powerful for practical battlefield use. The 1RL257 Krasukha-4 is Russia’s less insanely powerful but much more capable broadband version. No idea if it can stop a vehicle, but it seems to work pretty well on cruise missiles.
The US should never try to beat the Russians on heavy-lift liquid-fueled rockets or crazy-powerful microwave weapons. Given enough time, the US defense contractors could catch up to the Russians – I just can’t afford the additional taxes it would take.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6eaf90e3eec603fd489f1ac5db0504222f6ca0a8ae28c45a7545dba0264cc2a3.png
tool…
this stinks of staged.
pentagon loves demonstrations where the only thing people can believe is pentagon’s words.
as far as we know, cars and vessels have been left with no gas or simply turned off with a wireless command attached to the ignition.
The theory is to fry up the target using dense continuous microwaves. It is possible but just not as well as advertised.
the theory may well be that.
in practice, there are no power packs in sight in the video.
if it needs a nuclear reactor power output to work nominally, then it’s many years from anything close to production and deployment.
Always if the vid isn’t a dupe and the cars and boats just don’t get turned off by their ignition keys (which can’t be disproved by anything seen in the vid).
I already said that in my other comment ^^
I thought Raygun was an American President? Did they dig him up?
Interesting – in case that terrorists attacks with a modern sedan with ECU, ABS and infotainment system the new Pentagon weapon can stop them…
In case that terrorists use an full diesel mechanical engine up to the ’80.. or a modern engine “de-wired” ( I guess you don’t care about fuel consumption or skidding if you make a suicide attack ) then the new Pentagon weapon has only hit American taxpayers.
P.S. inertia seems not considered…
was thinking the same. although i’m not sure about the mack truck in the first part of the vid.
NATO and Soviets were both experimenting with microwave weapons from 1960’s. They are effective in range of applications, and one of the known NATO sub-areas of interest was as tool for social control – ie large groups of fixed demonstrators can be subjected to low level radiation and become temporarily ill, sore throats, headaches etc and the group then starts to disperse. It has long been speculated this was done to the large anti-nuclear protest groups, largely women, camped outside NATO bases in Britain in mid 1980’s. There are however, health consequences – particularly infants and unborn fetuses in pregnant women are very vulnerable to such microwaves and it can affect their natural development. Whilst this particular US microwave system may be an effective anti-IED suite, and potentially save US serviceman’s lives, should the US military start regularly using this system in Afghanistan et al, there would be very a real, albeit essentially hidden, impact on civilian health for those caught in the immediate vicinity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3QeSOU8qC0
so what, they feed the herd fluoride, and the herd doesn’t care… too stupid to care thye drink a genotoxic, mutagenic, EPA designated class 4 neurotoxin. When every government on the planet agrees with thescience which says that fluoride works topically NOT systemically.
One reason my family double filters our drinking water, removing the flouride added to it by the state, amongst other things.
“Report of Partial findings from the National Toxicology Program Carcinogenesis Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation in Hsd: Sprague Dawley® SD rats (Whole Body Exposure”
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/26/055699
https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/results/areas/cellphones/findings/study_index.html
better link
Just when the Pentagon needed a public justification for their planned technical development, those Islamic terrorists showed up with a vehicle-jihad. It’s amazing how helpful these jihadis can be!
“A new threat is quickly emerging in the West, as ten civilians were mowed down in a horrific van attack earlier this week in Toronto. ”
Bullshit, like usual. This man was twisted up by SSRI drugs, and no one talks about the real mens rea, instead wanting to create terrorism out of profit motive.