CBS 60 Minutes Video: Pentagon Tests High-Intensity Ray-Gun On Mock Anti-War Protesters
I found this story fascinating. There are so many interesting angles to this type of technology. On the one hand, it seems a benevolent alternative to rubber bullets (or real bullets) or tear gas which could be used in riot situations to minimize injury. On the other hand, in the hands of China or Burma (or the US, for that matter), could be another useful tool for suppression of dissent which would minimize political damage to the regime.
Pretty soon, things like the 2nd Am. will be (even more) obsolete if citizens hold technology vastly inferior to goverment secret weapons. (and there already is a gap: my handgun to their bomber)
Indeed! We use to call the “five-oh” the “peacemaker” as resistance seems to crumble when this one is brought into the firefight.
I was lucky enough to fire a few thousand rounds with the “five-oh” and not only in training. [/quote]
Damn staight!
I’m not sure I would have handled my own deployments so well, were it not for the fact of the fifties. So much so, we cranked this loud & proud, and not a few others, even though the birthyear is irrelevant!
[color=darkred][i]"They screamed
When the Beatles sang
And they laughed when the King fell down the stairs
Oh they should’ve known better
Oh we hated our Aunts
Then we messed in our pants
Then we lost our faith and prayed to the TV
Oh we should’ve known better
We were born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
We freeze like statues on the pages of history
Living was never like this when we took all those G.C.E.'s
Oh, you opened the door for us
And then you turned to dust
You don’t understand us
So don’t reprimand us
We’re taking the future
We don’t need no teacher
Born, born in the fifties"[/i][/color] THE POLICE
Quite so…quite, quite so…the stories I could tell about this magnificent invention and some of the useful evolutions of weaponry that have come about for use of this caliber.
Yea, we had to lug those things around in the military but they won’t let us fire them… I mean what good is an army if most of them don’t even know how to use a machine gun?
Yea, we had to lug those things around in the military but they won’t let us fire them… I mean what good is an army if most of them don’t even know how to use a machine gun?[/quote]
Yea, what a waste carrying it around and not firing it.
In my time the LMG was a section weapon, so each section (11-12 soldiers) had an LMG allocated to it with two men serving the weapon. A number “one” (the gunner) and “two”. “Two” was the guy feeding the belt/carrying the extra ammunition/replacing number “one” if he gets himself shot.
The LMG’s we were issued with in the early 80’s weighed around 12 kg, if I remember correctly. That’s why the LMG normally went the two biggest guys in the section. We all helped to clean the bastard thing, which was quite a time-consuming process, especially after a few thousand 7.62 rounds went through the barrel.
Well in the Taiwan military at least for the “standby” team (the team that comes out in case someone like attacks the base) one guy carries the LMG, one guy carries the 5.56 version minime, but then again I felt the real reason is they don’t expect us to actually go to war against anyone, I mean the base I was at is mainly responsible for training new recruits (or conscripts) so we only have enough weapons to scare the thugs who is stupid enough to attack a military base… I am sure there are more serious units out there but ours wasn’t one of them, they are really there to impress the brass and nothing more.
