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April 08, 2009
Man portable "pain ray" under development
Raytheon is working on downsizing the tractor trailer sized "pain ray" device the military has developed.
Raytheon Company's Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) business has been awarded a phase-two contract to develop a gallium nitride (GaN) solid-state source for use in non-lethal weapons...
..."Our support of the JNLWD is for very high frequency, millimeter-wave GaN to provide the warfighter with a lower-cost, lighter-weight, non-lethal engagement alternative,"...
The release is sketchy, but my take is they're looking for a sort of GaN "microwave LED"...which sounds quite doable since the crew I'm with has developed solid state transducers for all sorts of stuff.
[GaN = Gallium Nitride]