"A non letal 50 caliber gun?" Topic
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Tango01 | 09 Jan 2016 10:11 p.m. PST |
"A gun is a powerful tool for putting a hole in a person. That power made them a staple of armies centuries ago and keeps them on the hips of soldiers, law enforcement, and Gadsden-flag-wearing anybodies to this day. Among the problems of such a lethal tool is that, in the event someone wants to use force but doesn't want to kill anybody, guns are a bad choice. A whole field of less-lethal weapons has sprung up, and one of the latest would use lasers and jets as a less-bloody alternative. Ohio's Battelle Memorial Institute has a small history with novel weapons. In October, they demonstrated an anti-drone rifle, which brought down flying machines by jamming their controls. Their latest, blandly patented as "Caseless projectile and launching system," is a gun that fires a jet-powered, laser-guided large blunt bullet, a metal fist thrown at someone dozens of yards away. Fired from a specially-made pistol, or attached to a rifle in place of a grenade launcher, the round will rely on a laser rangefinder (not yet developed) to make sure it hits its target at an appropriate velocity. If it does, it should have the concentrated pain of a sting without the concentrated death of a traditional bullet. Popular Mechanics describes how the gun, named Pogojet, works:.." Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
Mako11 | 10 Jan 2016 2:28 a.m. PST |
Seems a bit of "overkill" for a non-lethal weapon (bad pun intended). |
John Treadaway | 10 Jan 2016 3:23 a.m. PST |
Mako Think of the cost of death in civilian life: court cases and destructive civil disturbance that ensue after people are shot by (for example) police officers with, let's just say, a degree of alacrity, and the cost of developing weapons like this seems like money well spent to me. John T |
Dn Jackson | 10 Jan 2016 11:26 a.m. PST |
Except it doesn't exist. "the round will rely on a laser rangefinder (not yet developed)" Sounds like a company looking for grant money to me. |
Mardaddy | 10 Jan 2016 12:17 p.m. PST |
I recall when we were issued, "non-lethal," weapons and what not for Somalia, collapsing the UN lines. After a while they changed the name to, "less-than-lethal," and not long after that again, all of them were pulled and we never saw them or trained with them again. There are PR and legal liabilities (military and otherwise) due to false expectations that, "less-than-lethal," means exactly that when it actually may not, depending on range, the physical vulnerabilities of the target (age/condition) and where the target is struck. |
Mako11 | 11 Jan 2016 11:13 a.m. PST |
My point was in reaction to the selection of a .50 cal round. |
javelin98 | 12 Jan 2016 11:52 a.m. PST |
I think they'd be better off sticking with proven beanbag rounds. Give someone a Saiga-12 with AK furniture and a drum mag of those things, and they'll put a dent in any disorderly gathering. |
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