<HTML>Options 'between a bullhorn and a bullet' abound at Land Combat Expo
Terry Boyd, Stars and Stripes
European edition, September 24, 2005
U.S. Army Europe’s Land Combat Expo
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HEIDELBERG, Germany — "...Imagine a silent, invisible beam of directed energy that disperses rioters by exciting water molecules on a layer of skin 1/64th of an inch deep.
“It causes a sensation as intense as being burned,” said Air Force Maj. Troy Roberts of what he calls “almost a ‘Star Trek’ phaser-type of technology.”
Like Capt. James T. Kirk’s phaser, Active Denial Systems can be set low enough to cause severe pain, but no injuries, at ranges greater than small arms, said Roberts, capabilities and concepts officer for the Department of Defense’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate.
...All of these “futuristic” nonlethal weapons exist and are largely practical and perfected...
“Nonlethal” is a concept, not a certainty..."</HTML>
