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The Pentagon’s Active Denial System shoots energy beam that causes ‘sensation of intense heat on surface of skin’<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/pete-hegseth" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Pete Hegseth</a>, the US secretary of defense, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/21/politics/heat-ray-weapon-dhs-pentagon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">reportedly</a> signed a memo last month permitting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to test a non-lethal “heat ray” for potential use at the US southern border.The “heat ray”, known as the <a href="https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/defense-tech-papers/44/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Active Denial System</a>, is a military-grade weapon that shoots an energy beam causing “a sensation of intense heat on the surface of the skin”, according to <a href="https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=defense-tech-papers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">a 2009 National Defense University case study</a> on the weapon. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/22/heat-ray-mexico-border-dhs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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