{"id":106545,"date":"2020-05-04T19:43:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T02:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/the-army-is-testing-handheld-ray-guns"},"modified":"2020-05-04T19:43:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T02:43:39","slug":"the-army-is-testing-handheld-ray-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/the-army-is-testing-handheld-ray-guns","title":{"rendered":"The Army Is Testing Handheld Ray Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h5jBjso6l6I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Fittingly, these rifle-sized weapons would gun for other electronics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pew! Pew! Soldiers with handheld energy blasters <\/strong>are the stuff of G.I. Joe, not real life \u2026 until now. The U.S Army is currently testing electricity guns for possible use against electronics on the battlefield. They don\u2019t look like props from the popular cartoon show but, rather like regular standard-issue M4 rifles with a pair of antennas that shoot out from the barrel and then spread, giving the front end of the gun a musket-like shape.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers \u201calready carry rifles. Why not use something that every soldier already carries,\u201d said James E. Burke, an electronics engineer with the U.S. Army\u2019s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, or ARDEC. Burke spoke with <em> Defense One <\/em> at a National Defense Industry Association event in Baltimore on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 Fittingly, these rifle-sized weapons would gun for other electronics. Pew! Pew! Soldiers with handheld energy blasters are the stuff of G.I. Joe, not real life \u2026 until now. The U.S Army is currently testing electricity guns for possible use against electronics on the battlefield. They don\u2019t look like props from the popular cartoon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}