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December 18, 2018 By AMK

The ingredients powering DoD’s new nonlethal weapons

We may never know whether Cuba attacked American diplomats with microwave weapons — but we do know similar devices exist.

The U..S Department of Defense’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, along with a host of private arms companies, has spent decades testing everything from long-range wireless Taser bullets to sonic guns that can disable a car engine from 150 feet away.

The one requirement: These weapons must emit less than 10,000 joules, the amount of energy it takes to kill a person. Bombs incite wars, the thinking goes — but North Korea miiight forgive the “accidental discharge” of a directed-energy laser pulser (also, as it happens, in the works).

Keep reading this article at: https://www.wired.com/story/ingredients-powering-defense-department-new-nonlethal-weapons/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: DoD, industry, weapon systems, weapons systems

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