Ken_McE
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Don't try this at home:
Military says 'optical incapacitation' aims to prevent checkpoint deaths. Manufacturer says effects will probably wear off if the soldiers use it carefully.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12854973/
Chinese take on it:
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=20&art_id=19114&sid=8027824&con_type=1
Red Cross comments on international regulations concerning blinding weapons. Looks like "Dazzlers" are allowed:
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/57jn4y?opendocument
Manufacturers homepage. They have a variety of devices, no listed prices, and I doubt they sell to the public:
http://www.bemeyers.com/
Hmm, the Mods seem to be OK with this, guess I'll expand my post a little:
I've got to wonder if we did the right thing by introducing a new weapon to this area...
The street finds its own use for technology. I have to wonder what will be the Iraqi response to this. If I were in the Resistance in Iraq, what would I do? I expect the first thing would be to order up a few gross of devices comparable to these from China.
You'd want to emplace ten or twenty or fifty persons armed with these around a spot you'd picked and prepared at your leisure. Then you'd experiment with how well a Blackhawk driver or C-130 pilot can fly with twenty dazzlers pointing into their cockpit. A nice thing about these dazzlers is that you can give them to people who are not qualified for combat, post them back out of rifle range, and let them provide support while your troops go in to do their job.
I've got to wonder if we did the right thing by introducing a new weapon to this area. Now that we've done it, we can hardly complain if they do it, right?
Military says 'optical incapacitation' aims to prevent checkpoint deaths. Manufacturer says effects will probably wear off if the soldiers use it carefully.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12854973/
Chinese take on it:
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=20&art_id=19114&sid=8027824&con_type=1
Red Cross comments on international regulations concerning blinding weapons. Looks like "Dazzlers" are allowed:
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/57jn4y?opendocument
Manufacturers homepage. They have a variety of devices, no listed prices, and I doubt they sell to the public:
http://www.bemeyers.com/
Hmm, the Mods seem to be OK with this, guess I'll expand my post a little:
I've got to wonder if we did the right thing by introducing a new weapon to this area...
The street finds its own use for technology. I have to wonder what will be the Iraqi response to this. If I were in the Resistance in Iraq, what would I do? I expect the first thing would be to order up a few gross of devices comparable to these from China.
You'd want to emplace ten or twenty or fifty persons armed with these around a spot you'd picked and prepared at your leisure. Then you'd experiment with how well a Blackhawk driver or C-130 pilot can fly with twenty dazzlers pointing into their cockpit. A nice thing about these dazzlers is that you can give them to people who are not qualified for combat, post them back out of rifle range, and let them provide support while your troops go in to do their job.
I've got to wonder if we did the right thing by introducing a new weapon to this area. Now that we've done it, we can hardly complain if they do it, right?
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