GoKawiilPentagon authorizes DHS to test Active Denial heat-ray weapon at border
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo last month permitting the Department of Homeland Security to test and develop tactics for the Active Denial System, a nonlethal military heat weapon, for potential use at the southern US border, according to CNN. The memo authorizes a seven-month loan of one ADS unit, though it does not specify where or how testing would occur. The device emits an invisible electromagnetic beam that causes a burning sensation on skin from over half a mile away.