Good grief what a waste of taxpayer dollars.
You want a soldier to decide whether to set his rifle on kill or stun?
Whoever ordered this boondoggle should be canned. (And I would not be surprised if a local Congressman or Senator “suggested” to the Army that they look into this BS “technology”
i see this as having more applications to domestic use. riots, violent protests and stuff. not war. cops would love it. no need for all the rubber bullets and stuff. one gun, many uses.
I agree. Bad Eye Deer !
No. They don’t want soldiers to decide. They want to give the politicians the ability to decide. I’d be more surprised if it wasn’t a Congressman or Senator that suggested it in the first place than I would be if one stopped in to stop it.
Read the article.
From said article: "Lund says that the new weapon system will use different types of bullet for lethal and non-lethal use."
Don't feel bad, though. The "expert" quoted in the article didn't apparently read it either:
"Steve Wright, a security expert at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK warns of the potential risk of variable lethality. "In a high-stress, high-personal-risk zone, there will be a real temptation for soldiers to turn the tuneable lethality switch up to 'kill' mode so that all doubt is removed." "
Bottom line, the soldier will use whatever ammo the chain of command issues. I can see maybe issuing a mix of ammo based on the circumstance, loaded in different magazines -- regular mags for regular ammo, orange mags for less-than-lethal, for example.