Pulse #016: The US Military’s Notorious ‘Heat Ray’ Is Headed for the Border

Personally, I simply would not do this.

An Active Denial System from the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate is staged before conducting a counter personnel demo during Weapons and Tactics Instructor course (WTI) 2-17 at Site 50, Wellton, Arizona on April 4, 2017. (US Marine Corps photo)

Welcome to Pulse, a regular digest of updates from around the directed energy ecosystem. In this week’s edition: the US military’s dreaded Active Denial System finally gets a mission, the Defense Innovation Unit eyes laser-armed drone boats, US Air Combat Command seeks drone defense-as-a-service, and more.