I read about this already.
The white phosphorous bombs are extremely common.
We replaced napalm with this stuff. It releases a powder into the air in an area and then it ignites, with much more heat and oxygen usage than napalm.
In grenade or shoulder launched deployment would be devastating--many times more effective than frag grenades especially in enclosed areas such as indoors or underground emplacements. One of the many problems is that using them in such a way would require basically a SCUBA unit, because the air would be absent of oxygen.
The microwave thing is just nuts. Thank god for posse comitatus**eh?
Basically a large microwave emitter array mounted (in prototypes I've seen) on top of a HM-V.
In Mogadishu, this would've probably saved a few handfuls of American lives.
*rant time*
Though so would armor-plated HM-V's *cough*.
If you're interested in keeping our military men and women more safe, you'll write a letter to your congressmen and tell them you'd prefer more efficient spending and better equipment to idiotic "is it built in my district??" policies.
$500 Billion is more than enough to have three or four times the efficacy we have with the same number of troops. Instead, the legislature is pushing through BS like the
Osprey (an OK idea, just so high maintenance and prone to failure it's not in wide deployment).
