Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Non-lethal weapons in the news

Today is an interesting news day in world of exotic non-lethal weapons. A sonic weapon was used to thwart would be pirates from boarding a cruise ship off Somalia. This is being reported at many news sites. "Cruise ship 'used sonic weapon'".

Then there is the PHASR. These types of weapons I've been reading about for the past few years and looks like DoD has some in production and in testing. "US military sets laser PHASRs to stun". The pictures of the PHASR are really cool looking. It looks like a prop from a science fiction movie.

And finally some news about Taser. "Taser to offer stun gun cameras". A look at how existing non-lethal devices are being altered to meet criticisms of possible usage abuse.

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