Posted on 10/13/2018 7:34:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Full Title: "US Marines reveal plans for plasma crowd control weapon that can shout at people from 3,000 feet away - then be 'turned up' to temporarily blind and even burn them"
The weapon can produce a range of effects.
At the lowest setting, the weapon can produce speech, and it will be able to warn people upto 1,000m away by delivering voice messages.
When it gets closer, the weapon will deliver a 'Flash-bang effect' by sending an 'acoustic blast of ~ 165+ dB at minimum distance of 100 meters'.
It will also be able to send a 'Flash blind effects (6-8 million candela)' momentarily blinding people at minimum distance of 100 meters.
The highest setting of the current model will let loose 'Full scalable thermal ablative effects' through common natural clothing (i.e., fabric, denim, leather, etc.) at minimum distance of 100 meters.
This would painfully vaporise the outer layer of skin – rather than burning it will be turned into gas.
Using the different effect would allow operators to control crowds or enemies, first warning them before using the higher settings.
The documentation for the project says it will 'have direct application to many other U.S. Government agencies as well as civilian law enforcement.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Have the serfs suffering before calling in the lethal stuff would thrill her so much.
I’d have to disagree. The Marine Corps has been doing these types of missions for so long they literally wrote the book on it 80 years ago with the Small Wars manual, and they certainly got plenty of practice in Iraq. Also, I am not sure how much secrecy is needed for a nonle5al crowd control system.
LOL.. An endless supply of e coli.
I agree.
We could say that right now.
The Left would try to use either to help the likes of AntiFa as they riot or seek shield them while trying to send in forces against us. That’s how they in other contexts — from Germany to Cambodia — rolled up so many tens of millions dead in the 20th.
The “good guys” are NOT the DOJ, IRS, BLM, Homeland Security, ATF, etc.
Think Rosenstein, Strzok, Wray, Brennan, etc getting their greasy hands on this.
I remember the Pepper Fogger machine from a spring night in Iowa City in 1969.
Yeah, saw them in Detroit
That's what "Sorry, no clearly established precedent, Qualified Immunity for all law enforcement, case dismissed" is for.
Too funny - I remember when the Army Tobyhanna Depot was competing to stay the main parts supplier for newer comm systems ... and won....my boss remarked that they wanted to prove that their past poor performance hadn’t been a fluke...
That’s right.
Hillary is mad as hell at the Devil right now because she sold her soul to him and he failed to deliver for her.
With Hillary we didn’t dodge a bullet, we dodged a Nuke.
Yes.
I know far more than you do about this new area of development and what requirements are being put into system development. A case in point is this. After the Boston Red-socks won the world series there were riots going on during the celebration.The police used non-lethal weapons to break it up. A young lady got hit in the eye with a rubber pellet from a shotgun and was killed. Yes the Boston PD got sued and lost a 16 million dollar suit. Yes there is a precedent.
I’ll always remember a sight I saw in 1967.
At the base dump in Chu Lai I saw a Marine and a Vietnamese
woman in a tug of war over a insulated poncho liner some
army guy had thrown out. Wish I’d had a camera.
A MIRV.
Bill, Hill, and Chelsea.
Most modern tech is requiring HIGHER levels of trust in authority at exactly the time authority is demonstrating very low levels of trustworthiness.
At this “Why Not Frame Up An Elected Prez?”-juncture, Gummint is at the Barney Fife, “one bullet in the cylinder” stage:
I see legitimate use of The Skin Vaporizer in two, three hundred years down the road, I think.
In one of Travis McGee’s books, such a weapon is used against American citizens.
I guess them Army-issue liners were hard to come by....BTW, did the Marine win the tug-o-war?
Federal troops are not supposed to be used on American citizens except under few conditions. So if this device is to be implemented, it will have to be produced for use on crowd control and handled by locals.
I’m reminded of the movie “Runaway,” starring Tom Selleck, where he is a law enforcement officer that goes into the public domain to stop runaway robotics that the company that owns them can’t contain. Putting something that can kill into a crowd control atmosphere in a self contained condition is a bit of a stretch. Under attack conditions at a higher level of assault, maybe. But here, in almost all of the cases it will be deployed, might be a bit of an overkill.
rwood
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