1. Pain Ray a.k.a Active Denial System (ADS)
Picture Source
What is it?
It is a weapon that causes pain by using microwaves to heat the skin to a temperature of about 130 degrees. Yup, the same technology you use in your
kitchen.
Cost to Tax Payers
The US military spent more than $40 million developing the technology and introduced it in 2001.
Weapon Deployment
Weapon was tested in Afghanistan and is currently used by Pitchess Detention Center's North County Correction Facility in Los Angeles.
How lethal can it be?
the ADS provides the technical possibility to produce burns of second and third degree. Because the beam of diameter 2 m and above is wider than
human size, such burns would occur over considerable parts of the body, up to 50% of its surface...Without a technical device that reliably prevents
re-triggering on the same target subject, the ADS has a potential to produce permanent injury or death
Source
Other Names
Holy Grail, Goodbye, AIS, BBQ, Toast
2. Long Range Acoustic Device a.k.a LRAD
What is it?
The Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) is a distance hailing device and non-lethal crowd control weapon developed by LRAD Corporation to send
messages, warnings and harmful, pain inducing tones over longer distances than normal loudspeakers.
Source
Cost to Tax Payers
At least $3.2 million in 2009
Weapon Deployment
Watch the youtube video
How lethal can it be?
It can cause permanent hearing loss since generated noise levels can reach 150Db. Noise levels above 90Db are harmful.
3. Flash Bang
What is it?
These grenades are designed to temporarily neutralize the combat effectiveness of enemies by disorienting their senses. The flash of light
momentarily activates all light sensitive cells in the eye, making vision impossible for approximately five seconds until the eye restores itself to
its normal, unstimulated state. The extremely loud blast produced by the grenade adds to its incapacitating properties by disturbing the fluid in the
ear.
Source
Weapon Deployment
In riots and peaceful demonstrations
How lethal can it be?
SWAT Officer Killed By Non-Lethal Flashbang Grenade
Charlotte, North Carolina, SWAT officer Fred Thornton was killed last month when a flashbang grenade exploded as he was securing his equipment in the
trunk of his patrol car. This comes a few years after the federal government began a criminal investigation of a firm that manufactured faulty
flashbangs, one of which prematurely detonated in 2008, causing permanent injury to three FBI agents.
Source
edit on 29-10-2011 by LiveEquation because: (no reason given)
