Radio Frequency Vehicle Stopper
April 29th, 2018Via: Defense One:
The Defense Department’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program, or JNLWD, is pushing ahead with a new direct energy weapon that uses high-powered microwaves to stop cars in their tracks without damaging the vehicle, its driver, or anyone else.
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.”
I want a home-made version of this that can discreetly mount in my car’s rear window so that I can stop police cars dead when they’re chasing me for violating some unelected bureaucrat’s idea of a “safe” speed limit.
@cryingfreeman, now that would truly be a good use for this device!
Wonder what would happen if you aimed it at a helicopter. Cross this with a maser (a radio laser) and there could be all sorts of chaos.
Drone Swatter?
…energy weapon that uses high-powered microwaves to stop cars in their tracks and cook all the groceries