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I was reading about a new weapon that Raytheon was developing and I was just curious about some things. The frequency that the gun uses is 95GHz, making the wavelength around 2mm if I am correct. Is there any wiremesh that you can buy that is that thin? 2 mm or smaller? What would the feasability of creating a piece of clothing that would shield from this effect. I mean its a 100kW transmitter apparently, so could you block the wave by a few pieces of tin foil, or would you need a pretty good sized sheet of metal. I was just thinking that it would be funny that by using a commonly known principle of Electromagnetic waves you could defeat a future weapon that cost 40 million to complete...
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They'll just make it an offence to wear a tin foil suit and flyscreen goggles while rioting
Seriously, I'm sure you could shield yourself quite effectively using things from the hardware store. But the weapon was probably just conceived as a gravy train for Raytheon, or a R&D project to push the boundaries of microwave technology, and I doubt anybody cares if it's actually any use in battle.
Having said that, war is all about looking good for the press nowadays. A less-than-lethal weapon like this would have some pretty potent PR advantages. It has been discussed here before, so you may turn up some interesting stuff by searching the archives.
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OK you are at a riot- perhaps just as a bystander who happened to be there anyway. The police ask everyone to disperse. You , for whatever reason, stay put. They turn on their new magic toy. Everyone else scatters in pain but you, with your tinfoil underwear, stand there looking at them* OK now you have made them angry , they all have guns and they will all coroborate any story their friends put forward. How do you imagine this story finishes?
* this would be a bad time to say "Don't taze me bro'"
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I just watched a similar "weapon" demonstrated on tv. Neat idea but my first thought was also of tinfoil hats. Though you can bet that if their microwave beam doesn't get you there will be a bunch of riot police there to finish the job :S
Registered Member #135
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If you wore a foil hat in that field, wouldn't there be enough gradients to cause a voltage differential along the hat, possibly shocking the hell out of your head?
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Bored Chemist: With an insane amount of hits on YouTube of course! Unless they shoot your buddy with the camera too. However, I'd wonder why they bothered bringing the thing along in the first place, if they were prepared to shoot anyway.
Hazmatt: Nice question, I have no idea of the answer. Please feel free to discuss it further, it may help people to understand how Faraday cages work. Tesla once claimed to be able to light a fluorescent tube inside a Faraday cage with a coil outside it.
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My theory is just that the induced eddy currents will cause differential voltages throughout the surface, much like a CD in a microwave, and that's quite a spectacular failure!
I know I wouldn't want a sparking burning foil on my head. I just don't know if that can happen outside a resonant cavity or not.
One thing the erstwhile AFDB folk never think of (and which has bearing here) is that Faraday cages must be grounded to perform significantly in shielding capacity. Especially in high-dissipation service like this, an earth ground would be necessary. Otherwise, said arcing and such would occur. The reason the Faraday screen in a microwave window doesn't arc, but aluminum foil does, is that the wire mesh is grounded, but the foil isn't.
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