US Marines Get Giant Ray Gun

Toy ray guns came out in the 1950s. After all, what 8-yo wouldn't want to fry the family pets with a ray gun?

Well, the US Marine Corp just got a real-life, high-tech, brand-spanking new, just out of the box, sits on a Humvee, giant-big heat-ray-gun that has a range of over a mile. The idea is to toast people from the inside out- like a microwave oven.

"You're not gonna see it, you're not gonna hear it, you're not gonna smell it: you're gonna feel it," explained US Marine Colonel Tracy Taffola.

The electromagnetic beam affectionately called "Active Denial System" can heat up a target over a 3/4 mile distance. The military shot 11,000 people in tests. When did all this happen?

People who've seen it work say it looks like a War Of The World's weapon. Stuff just starts to get hot, out of thin air. Technically, the ray operates at fat beam of 95 gHz (a microwave oven is 1 gHz).

When you need to cook a crowd of people en masse and in a hurry, who ya gonna call?  The US Marine Corps baby!