According to
Defense One, the Army is working on an attachment for the M4 assault rifle that would basically turn it into a ray gun. Nicknamed "Burke's Pulsar" after its inventor, the device works similar to a ray gun bayonet. The rifle fires a blank round, with the same gunpowder explosion, but without a bullet. The explosive energy is then converted into electrical energy, via the piezoelectric effect. The electrical energy is sent out by two "antennas" which then spreads from the barrel of the weapon. The purpose of this device is to be able to disable and destroy circuit boards from range. It would be used, for example, to stop trucks without shooting them or just destroying someone's cellphone.
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