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Suhajda - Non-Lethal Weapons for Military Operations Other Than War Although training is required to teach the circumstances for the use of any weapon, the soldier using a non-lethal weapon must be even more aware of the situation around him because employment of the weapon typically depends on the extent of the threat, as opposed to just the existence of the threat itself. The soldier must determine when to set a weapon on maximum level if put in the position of an attacking mob, or when to adjust it to a lower level to be used against children grabbing for his sidearm. Lethal force is not desirable in a peacekeeping scenario because of the possibility of escalating the situation. www.usafa.af.mil /df/dfmi/airman/suhajd~1.htm   (4099 words)

Nonlethal Weapons Weapons that are explicitly designed and primarily employed so as to incapacitate personnel or materiel, while minimizing fatalities, permanent injury to personnel, and undesired damage to property and the environment. Unlike conventional lethal weapons that destroy their targets principally through blast, penetration and fragmentation, non- lethal weapons employ means other than gross physical destruction to prevent the target from functioning. Unlike conventional lethal weapons that destroy their targets principally through blast, penetration and fragmentation, non-lethal weapons employ means other than gross physical destruction to prevent the target from functioning. www.angelfire.com /or/mctrl/nonlethal.html   (13604 words)

Less than Lethal Weapons Less than lethal weapons were developed to provide law enforcement, corrections, and military personnel with an alternative to lethal force. The term less lethal weapons refers to weapons such as bean bag shotshells, rubber bullets, and electronic stun devices to name a few. The taser is a conducted energy weapon that fires a cartridge with two small probes, or darts, that are connected to the weapon by high-voltage, insulated wire. www.iejs.com /TechnologyandCrime/Law_Enforcement_Technology/less_than_lethal_weapons.htm   (2285 words)

Airline Pilots Security Alliance - Non-Lethal Weapons We are in agreement with the proponents of non-lethal weapons for cockpit defense insofar as it is clear that the cockpit is the place on the aircraft that must be defended. Those in favor of non-lethal weapons and those convinced that lethal force is required for cockpit defense agree that the cockpit must not be compromised. Lethal force is clearly necessary to stop multiple suicidal attackers that would kill the pilots and use the airplane as a guided missile, but only if such attackers were successful in breaching the cockpit door. www.secure-skies.org /Non-LethalWeapons.php   (2339 words)

Regulations, data lacking on less-lethal weapons - The Boston Globe Less lethal, a term covering weapons intended to subdue targets without killing them, does not mean that the weapons cannot cause death or serious injury. Manufacturers warn police about the possible lethal effects of their weapons, but specific information about the effect of the munitions on the human body can be difficult to obtain. Although the US Supreme Court has ruled that lethal force only can be used by police when the target is considered a threat to cause death or serious injury, police departments are generally on their own regarding proper application of less-lethal weapons. www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/01/11/regulations_data_lacking_on_less_lethal_weapons   (1536 words)

Non-Lethal Weapons They do so in the belief that this will enable many emerging and non-traditional threats (which may appear in low intensity, asymmetric conflicts and non-combatant operations) to be countered with a progressive response. Non-lethal weapons are of interest to the military and to law enforcement agencies as, in many cases, the character of the scenarios is similar. Non-lethal weapons can be seen as having dual-use application and they provide armed forces and law enforcement agencies with additional options to respond in a tailored and graduated manner. www.non-lethal-weapons.com   (154 words)

Joint Concept for Nonlethal Weapons Similarly, the use and maintenance of non-lethal weapons should not require field commanders to significantly alter the organization of their units or to dedicate a significant percentage of the unit's assets to those purposes. Weapons and ammunition must be available for live-fire training and must be compatible with the safety requirements and limitations in effect on most live-fire ranges. Lethal force is still authorized at the discretion of local commanders when it is necessary or prudent to ensure adequate force protection or mission accomplishment. www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/land/docs/NONLETH.HTM   (8445 words)

Non-Lethal Weapons Nonlethal weapons are valuable for crowd control, minimizing infrastructure damage, sparing the lives of noncombatants, and reducing the long-term environmental impact of conventional weapons. Rumsfeld was referring to the Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans the possession and use of chemical weapons but allows the use of toxic chemicals and their precursors in law enforcement including domestic riot control purposes. Weapons that can incapacitate crowds of people by sweeping a lightning-like beam of electricity across them are being readied for sale to military and police forces in the United States and Europe. www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/soft/nonlethal.htm   (6222 words)

Police toy with 'less lethal' weapons - mech-tech - 30 April 2005 - New Scientist The first is a radio-frequency weapon being developed by Raytheon at Palo Alto, California, which appears to be based on a similar concept to the Active Denial System weapon that Raytheon developed for the US marines in 2001. A third type of less-lethal weapon commissioned by the NIJ is a laser which produces a "plasma flash bang" at the point of impact, stunning and disorienting the victim. This weapon was introduced in the 1970s, and became popular with police forces in the US during the 1990s. www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=mg18624975.800   (1108 words)

Transcript : Background Briefing : Subject: Non-Lethal Weapons : Attributable To: Senior Military Official I'll describe the weapons to you here in just a minute, but let me start first by saying this is not a fly-by-night operation. They used the weapons -- these non-lethal weapons -- to ensure that they could be used in the right way to determine exactly what the effects would be and to gain some experience with them. And so the Marines who will employ these weapons if necessary have got what we think is the necessary training prior to their possible use in Somalia. www.defenselink.mil /news/Feb1995/x021795_x0217nlw.html   (3021 words)

PSP: Lethal Weapons Training Act Governmental employees, such as police officers, are not required to have lethal weapons certification to perform their duties as government employee. Any weapon calculated to produce death or serious bodily harm is considered a lethal weapon. An individual carrying a lethal weapon incidental to employment without certification may be convicted of a misdemeanor offense with a prison term not to exceed one year, or a fine not to exceed $1,000.00 or both. www.psp.state.pa.us /psp/cwp/browse.asp?A=15&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=33305   (1266 words)

'Non-Lethal Weapons', 27 Jul 03 It's entirely possible that even if a non-lethal weapon is non-lethal and only incapacitates someone, a death sentence could await that person when he or she wakes up. Hallucinogens: Often administered via gas, hallucinogenic weapons are employed to confuse, disorient and incapacitate the enemy, though last October's hostage fiasco in Russia — more than 90 dead after the police gassed a theater with BZ, an odorless incapacitant with hallucinogenic properties — shows that these weapons can be quite deadly when used improperly. That's a huge difference, and therefore, until measures are taken to ensure that non-lethal weapons are completely non-lethal — and devoid of any debilitating after-effects to you or your family — there should be a moratorium on their use, or at the very least a more stringent definition of the term "non-lethal." www.notinourname.net /restrictions/non-lethal-weapons-jul03.htm   (1509 words)

Non-Lethal Weapons - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia Non-lethal weapons are weapons specifically designed to do as much damage to someone or something as possible without killing it. Non-lethal weapons are usually favoured by Liberals, hippies, women, gays, and girly-men in general. The pen is historically the better choice of weaponry when faced by a man with a sword, but in recent times, there have been several technological advancements in sword-making business, and so it is not advisable to challenge a foe wielding a sword when armed only with a pen. uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Non-Lethal_Weapons   (654 words)

DEFENSE: Non-lethal Weapons - Council on Foreign Relations Non-lethal weapons (NLW) are intended to incapacitate people and equipment while limiting unnecessary loss of life and damage to property and the environment. The use of both tear gas and pepper spray is strictly regulated under the Chemical Weapons Convention. Weapons that use light, sound, heat, or smell to halt or disperse suspects. www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=7750   (1250 words)

Police toy with 'less lethal' weapons The first is a radio-frequency weapon being developed by Raytheon at Palo Alto, California, which appears to be based on a similar concept to the Active Denial System weapon that Raytheon developed for the US marines in 2001. A third type of less-lethal weapon commissioned by the NIJ is a laser which produces a "plasma flash bang" at the point of impact, stunning and disorienting the victim. This weapon was introduced in the 1970s, and became popular with police forces in the US during the 1990s. www.prisonplanet.com /articles/may2005/020505lesslethal.htm   (1036 words)

NDM Article - Non-Lethal Weapons to Gain Relevancy in Future Conflicts Non-lethal weapons that attack a country’s infrastructure could prove valuable as a means to exert influence without fatalities. This weapon will be able to temporarily take out a sniper, or other targeted individual, before they have time to duck. But the reality is that non-lethal weapons are meant to be adjuncts to lethal weapons. www.nationaldefensemagazine.org /issues/2002/Mar/Non-Lethal.htm   (1478 words)

The New Atlantis » Shooting Not to Kill Their exact lethality is a matter of considerable debate: they have been involved in dozens of deadly incidents, but have apparently never been clearly determined to be the primary cause of death. Most of the criticisms of NLWs relate to the possibility that the weapons could be overused by troops who think the weapons are safe because they are not intended to be lethal. As valuable as these weapons might be to American troops, they may violate U.S. obligations under treaties forbidding the development of biological and chemical weapons. www.thenewatlantis.com /archive/9/soa/nonlethal.htm   (1297 words)

The Non-Lethal Weapons Anti-Hijack Armoury In terms of the classic “fight or flight” syndrome, non-lethal weapons are intended to induce a strong desire for “flight.” This can take the form of so incapacitating an assailant that he flees, or is reduced to curling into a defensive ball on the floor. Triggering the full panoply of non-lethal weapons in response to the actions of a mentally disturbed passenger, or one whose behavior has been affected by illness, or in response to a fit of air-rage might well be an over-reaction leading to embarrassing media exposure if not significant legal liabilities. “Weapons that are explicitly designed and primarily employed so as to incapacitate personnel or materiel, while minimizing fatalities, permanent injury to personnel, and undesired damage to property and the environment.” (Emphasis in original) www.iasa.com.au /folders/RoboLander_files/non-lethalweapons2a.htm   (2892 words)

Less Than Lethal & Directed Energy Weapons Non lethal systems provide commanders with weapons explicitly designed and primarily employed to incapacitate personnel or materiel while minimizing fatalities, permanent injury to personnel, and collateral damage to property and the environment. When used in military applications, non-lethal weapons are useful in crowd control and riot situations, where hostile forces take cover in crowds, in operations in urban terrain, or anti-terrorist actions where minimize collateral damage, or in counter-terror activities, in hostages situations. Among such weapons are advanced incapacitating agents, electrical shock devices, laser, acoustic and high power microwave directed energy weapons. www.defense-update.com /features/du-1-05/feature-NLW.htm   (214 words)

MindNet Journal - Vol. 1, No. 68 Definition Non-lethal weapons are discriminate weapons that are explicitly designed and employed so as to incapacitate personnel or materiel, while minimizing fatalities and undesired damage to property and the environment. Unlike weapons that permanently destroy targets through blast, fragmentation or penetration, non-lethal weapons have relatively reversible effects on targets and/or are able to discriminate between targets and non-targets in the weapon's area of impact. To the extent that non-lethal weapons reduce the likelihood of loss of life and incidental damage to property in comparison with conventional systems, they are not only politically and operationally attractive options, but they are also consistent with international law and further the professional military responsibility to employ force proportionally and discriminately. www.raven1.net /mn168.htm   (1900 words)

Less-Than-Lethal Weapons | National Institute of Justice required NIJ to assess whether less-than-lethal weapons could be used by commercial airline flight deck crew members to temporarily incapacitate persons who present a clear and present danger to the safety of the aircraft, its passengers, or individuals on the ground. Less-than-lethal weapons are most often used when: (1) lethal force is not appropriate, (2) lethal force is justified but lesser force may subdue the aggressor, and (3) lethal force is justified but its use could cause collateral effects, such as injury to bystanders or unacceptable damage to property and environment. Most less-than-lethal weapons are designed for use in an open setting or inside a house or other structure, so further testing of these weapons may prove their use inside an aircraft in flight to be impractical. www.ojp.usdoj.gov /nij/speeches/aviation.htm   (3424 words)

Non-Lethal Weapons As troops are increasingly forced to serve as an ad hoc police force, nonlethal weapons have become a priority for the military. The hallmark of all directed-energy weapons is that the target -- whether a human or a mechanical object -- has no chance to avoid the shot because it moves at the speed of light. While it is often referred to as a "non-lethal" weapon [a study] found that since 1999, 84 people in the United States and Canada have died after being shocked by a Taser. www.wanttoknow.info /070611nonlethalweapons   (3259 words)

Welcome to the Free World Consequently, the Joint Directorate for Non-Lethal Weapons (JDNLW), based at Quantico, Virginia, was born, set up as the "action office" for the day-to day activities of the joint (meaning all services) NLW program. For the mid-term to 2004, it is exploring bounding non-lethal munitions, weapons that leap into the air before firing their pellets, dye, malodorants, or other non-lethal payload. In this manner an increasingly militarized and coordinated global police apparatus is moving to extend its sway, its war-making, to those civilian sectors of the world in opposition to the global corporate agenda. www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Police_State/Welcome_Free_World.html   (1274 words)

Non Lethal Weapons Technology There are many fascinating, intriguing and frightening non lethal weapons that have been and are being developed by military, government and private organizations around the world. There are many non lethal weapons that use electrical technologies, most of which are available to the everyday citizen. I realize that there are many more fascinating, intriguing and frightening non lethal weapons that have been and are being developed by military, government and private organizations around the world, but the discussion of such things is not within the flow of this website. www.bigbearacademy.com /non-lethal-weapons.html   (1079 words)

Sonic Non-Lethal Weapons The weapons are used for crowd control, and they are designed to disable a person in a riot situation. Most often, the weapons will not cause any damage to the human body and no marks will be left on the human body after being hit with these sonic weapons. Since the through wall targeting scope and the non-lethal weapons are two separate units, the through wall targeting scope is not limited to just targeting non-lethal weapons, it can also be used to target lethal weapons as well. www.planetdeusex.com /klystron/Other/sonic_weapons.html   (1101 words)

Allen Gibson According to research by The Bradford Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project in England, the demand for these technologies is being fueled by several things, among them a growing dislike among civilians of the brutal realities of war, as shown to them on their television sets and the internet. But the military is working on various energy weapons, with the hope that they can one day be adjusted on-the-fly from lethal to non-lethal settings. After all, a piece of 2 X 4 isn’t considered a ‘lethal weapon’ until somebody bashes your head in with it. www.nonlethalstocks.com /NR/Non-lethal_Energy_Weapons.asp   (777 words)

Lethal Weapons Training Academy - Home We also believe it is the duty of all honest citizens to protect themselves and their loved ones from the predatory criminals that walk the streets of America. An increased number of states are allowing honest citizens to carry a weapon concealed for protection. The courses we offer are designed to prepare the responsible, adult gun owner to handle their weapons in a safe and effective manner under all circumstances. www.lethalweaponstraining.com   (288 words)

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