500,000 Gazans To Be Screamed-At Or Pain-Rayed?

Leave it to the US’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to come up with the answer to Gazans streaming across the border with Egypt, or Hamas’ threat to set off a human wave across the border with Israel.

The Jerusalem Post says Israel already has the “Scream Machine”: “a machine that releases sound pulses that cause nausea, disorientation and dizziness. “

The JP also refers to the US’s “Pain Ray” that it says is in use in Iraq.

Photo courtesy AFP.

SpaceWar describes the “Pain Ray”, or Active Denial System (ADS):

[ADS] is a weapon that emits a beam of energy that will make the target feel a strong burning sensation on their skin, repelling them without causing genuine injury. the ADS is a parabolic antenna-like unit that shoots out a focused electromagnetic radio-frequency beam of millimeter waves over 500 meters (yards), giving it a much greater range than many crowd-control devices like rubber bullets or water cannons. When they hit their target, the beams penetrate the skin to about 1/64th of an inch, or 0.4 millimeters, causing a sensation that makes people think their clothes are on fire. This can be used to scare off a menacing mob without causing real injury, according to DARPA.

Call it a Hamas Hotfoot.