US Army to test UAVs armed with ultra-bright strobe to work as crowd control weapon

SUBMAN1 · 02-23-2007, 11:37 AM

US Army system designed to induce temporary paralysis

The US Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) plans to demonstrate the use of a 7.5 million candlepower (7.3 million candela) strobe floodlight system mounted on board an unmanned air vehicle as a non-lethal crowd-control system....

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...d-control.html

tycho102 · 02-23-2007, 02:12 PM

It's not going to be long before the military starts mounting those brain-wave EMI generators on planes.

If you haven't heard, there are "beam weapon" prototypes which take some kind of sampling of a person's current alpha and beta brain waves, and disrupts them using negative interference. Don't know if they can really control whether or not someone dies or is rendered unconscious, but I would imagine that some kind of average templates could be found that affect 50-75% of the population. That is probably what is being worked on right now -- predefined firing patterns.

Slap that stuff on a UAV with a directed beam and you've got an instant force-multiplier. Snipers in the miniret? Flip the kill switch.

geetrue · 02-23-2007, 02:23 PM

This sounded good at first, but then I thought about what the mind can really do when it tries hard enough ... the people will fight back and not give up. Like mice and rats get smarter with a maze problem if there is a reward at the end ...

So will human beings, all that's left to decide is which country will happen in first.

ASWnut101 · 02-23-2007, 02:48 PM

Could you just like NOT stare at the flashing lights? Problem solved.

bookworm_020 · 02-26-2007, 03:30 PM

Sales of sunglasses will surge when this thing is deployed!

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geetrue Cold War Boomer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Walla Walla Posts: 2,907 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	This sounded good at first, but then I thought about what the mind can really do when it tries hard enough ... the people will fight back and not give up. Like mice and rats get smarter with a maze problem if there is a reward at the end ... So will human beings, all that's left to decide is which country will happen in first. __________________

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ASWnut101 Admiral Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: USA Posts: 2,027 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Could you just like NOT stare at the flashing lights? Problem solved. __________________

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02-23-2007, 02:12 PM	#2
tycho102 Ace of the Deep Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,252 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	It's not going to be long before the military starts mounting those brain-wave EMI generators on planes. If you haven't heard, there are "beam weapon" prototypes which take some kind of sampling of a person's current alpha and beta brain waves, and disrupts them using negative interference. Don't know if they can really control whether or not someone dies or is rendered unconscious, but I would imagine that some kind of average templates could be found that affect 50-75% of the population. That is probably what is being worked on right now -- predefined firing patterns. Slap that stuff on a UAV with a directed beam and you've got an instant force-multiplier. Snipers in the miniret? Flip the kill switch.