Anyone know about these new weapons that fire electrical pulses...

...similar to lightening bolts. I heard somewhere these have been used in Iraq by our military with devastating results, causing bodies to burn up and even melt and partially vaporize. Is this science fiction or real?

but it wouldn't surprise me.

I used to have the url of a lovely website about all the new weapons coming down the pike, and many of them were pretty horrific. I don't remember anything like this.

The website is gone now, don't know what happened to it. What a coinkydink!

..or Electro-Magnetic Pulse weapons for years. One of the side effects of a nuclear denotation is EMP. It fries all electronic components and disrupts communications.

Fallujah.

but there was talk of a weapon that was developed and ready to be deployed to Iraq that used a microwave beam and was going to be used for crowd/riot control.

the us defense dept is seriously developing this concept and expect it to be placed on ships with in 10-15 years. it is speculated this will be the weapon of choice against the Chinese

Technically, they still fire bullets. They just use an electrical pulse to accelerate the bullet to much greater speeds than attainable with bullets propelled by burning gunpowder. They would definitely blow a person apart if they were man-portable, but wouldn't melt skin.

And it's only $9000 per unit! A bargain at twice the friggin' price!

http://www.defensereview.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=516

Like spraying lightning from a hose.

You might be confusing two or more weapons systems here. We used white phosphorus in Fallujah, which some consider to be a chemical weapon, and it does indeed burn and melt the skin off the bodies of people it lands upon. Pretty gruesome stuff, up there with napalm for damage to a human body.

Mighty Oaks (1986)

"In April 1986, just before the Chernobyl disaster, the US had a failed hydrogen test at the Nevada Test Site called Mighty Oaks. This test, conducted far underground, consisted of a hydrogen bomb explosion in one chamber, with a leaded steel door to the chamber, two meters thick, closing within milliseconds of the blast. The door was to allow only the first radioactive beam to escape into the "control room" in which expensive instrumentation was located. The radiation was to be captured as a weapon beam. The door failed to close as quickly as planned, causing the radioactive gases and debris to fill the control room, destroying millions of dollars worth of equipment. The experiment was part of a program to develop X-ray and particle beam weapons. The radioactive releases from Mighty Oaks were vented, under a "licensed venting" and were likely responsible for many of the North American nuclear fallout reports in May 1986, which were attributed to the Chernobyl disaster."

And many other disturbing experiments..
http://www.earthpulse.com/haarp/background.html