Apparently the U.S. Military has developed what is known as the 'Active Denial System'. They claim that it's a non-lethal way of making enemies surrender their weapons. The ray-gun projects an invisible high energy beam which produces a sudden burning feeling but is claimed to produce no side-effects. (Quite how you can 'heat someone up' without there being any side-effects is beyond me.)
The Flash Gordon style heat-ray is fired from the back of a modified Humvee up to a distance of 500 metres penetrating the target's clothes, suddenly heating up the skin of anyone in its path to 50C. Apparently (according to the Army tech-bods) it's enough to cause discomfort but no lasting harm.
It also looks alarmingly like something that Godzilla would stamp on or the laser cannon employed by the rebel forces on Hoth.
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