Sure , it looks like somebody strap a planet smasher to the roof of a box hand truck and paint it camouflage , but that does n’t make China ’s newest nonlethal weapon any easier to bear . In fact , take a gut shot from this thing and your venter will experience worse than a kitten in a microwave oven . Yet somehow , it wo n’t toss off you . Probably .
There are n’t many specs on the weapon system , dubbed the Poly WB-1 , available yet . However Chinese officials report that the weapon presently has a range of 80 meter ( and could be widen up to a full kilometer in later looping ) and that it utilizes a millimetre - wave beam — just like the one in your rest home microwave — to excite weewee molecules within the cells of the target , resulting in gut - wrench painful sensation . That ’ll show those rablerousers and their calls for popular reform .
The WB-1 closely resembles the half - baked ADS ( dynamic denial system ) that Raytheon debuted back in 2007 but was pulled from the Afghanistan field of operations by 2010 . That pain beam also used microwaves to blockade advancing effect in their tracks but required 16 hours to boot up before use and could only remain combat-ready for a myopic while as it guzzle its fuel supplying . There ’s no word on whether the Chinese interpretation has solve those issues but , if it has , our troop may need to start wear an surplus bed of atomic number 82 - run along body armor to counter its event . [ Extreme technical school – PopSci – Janes ]
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