Nah, the Marines will only get this once the Army has
declared it obsolete.
It does not guarantee any right to mob rule, to lynching, or to riot, wantonly destroy, and threaten or harm other people.
There are other methods that are far more effective. The directed energy weapons are not really the best type of non-lethal weapon because they have a greater probability of causing irreversible damage. The liability issues are going to be prohibitive.
Whatever happened to the `crap cannon’ that rendered rioters incontinent using ELF waves?
Coming soon to your local police department...for control of “right-wing mobs.”
So, why aren’t the LE community using stuff like this to disperse leftist anti-American crowds who carry swords, batons and expedient weapons to their social justice attacks?
I saw a guy unsheathe a katana and raise it is challenge/proclamation while NYC cops walked by, eventually one told him to put it away. I would think that if some dude yelling slurs raised a short sword near me- I would react a bit differently, cop or citizen....
I suppose there are two sets of rule of engagement-none for socialists bent on mayhem and violence, another for the rest of us citizens.
If the USMC and Army has these, then maybe we need to rethink the 2A application- crew served too?
To the naysayers on this thread: stop bitching about us mowing down third-worlders when they start rioting and destroying, then we’ll talk about holding back on effective non-lethal weapons development.
Somehow, I doubt this report. Such a weapon system would be highly secret to begin with, not revealed to or through a foreign news media. Second, this kind of low-lethality weapon does not sound like one the USMC would be working on; the Corps is not a crowd-control, constabulary mission type of unit, although the description indicates a possible support use in a defensive position.
But what do I know?
Sounds like what the Cubans were doing to US embassy employees.
A gunshot produces a 165dB sound impulse. So, the crowd can wear earplugs or shooters electronic muffs or in-ear devices, if they think ahead.
What if they have their eyes closed?
Portland comes to mind
I should think a laser beam hitting the lower leg might be a mood changer for rowdy crowds.
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.
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
I’m saying: fire that baby up down on the southern border in multiple iterations.
Sound Canon.