Pentagon Fielding Electromagnetic Crowd Dispersal Weapon

By Frank Morales

"The Marine Corps is on the verge of unveiling perhaps the biggest breakthrough in weapons technology since the atomic bomb: a nonlethal weapon that fires directed energy at human targets."

"I have nothing to hide. This is a good news story. Our American public needs to understand that we have done our homework." - Col. George Fenton, Director, Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, Department of Defense

Marine Corps Times, March 5, 2001 (1)

Sounds like a specular RF reflector would send these beams off in all directions, and with a little practice maybe even right back at those firing them.

Wonder what a large, parabolic dish would do.