Finally: “Pain Ray” Installed On Air Force Gunships

The dream of peaceniks and warnicks alike for years has been the “Pain Ray,” a device that inflicts excruciating temporary pain on a target without killing them.

The US Air Force has found a way to slap these bad boys on a 100-ft long AC-130 cargo aircraft. They’re called “gyrotrons,” and from the sounds of them, they’re very painful. They’d be ideal for special ops missions like recovering a downed aircraft and stunning anyone who might be approaching with some searing hot pain.

Why would such a device be seen as favorable to anyone but a supervillian? Well, because right now the only way to neutralize a target at a distance is to kill them. Say a suspicious man is approaching your forward operating post. You yell at him to back off, but he still keeps coming. Is he a lost farmer or a suicide bomber? Do you kill him or approach him, knowing he could kill you? What to do?

The Pain Ray fixes this – now, you just blast him with an excruciating blast of searing hot pain, knock him out and search him for weapons. Will he be happy about this? No, but he’ll be alive, which is a win for everybody.