Microwave weapons

Microwave weapons do exist, and high power 95GHz has been used for crowd control trials - 'Active Denial' as it is called in the trade (after all, Radar in the 1930s was born out a British RF Death Ray study)

Directed Energy Weapon development is alive and well despite the downturn after Reagan's Star Wars.

The US Military site at... http://www.de.afrl.af.mil/
...has plenty of info in the factsheets directory, especially:-

http://www.de.afrl.af.mil/Factsheets/ActiveDenial.pdf

High power millimetre waves cause an instant burning sensation in the top layer of the skin causing people to flinch away almost instantly.

Charming!, but perhaps safer than bullets

Murray Niman, G6JYB

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