Long-range Taser Uses Gernade Launcher

[exfileme]

The Pentagon is working on a long-range taser using a grenade launcher.

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[burnley14]

A $2.5 million contract? That's not even pocket change for the Department of Defense, that's hardly even pocket lint. Still a cool idea though.

 

[rodney_ws]

That's gonna be world's longest 3 minutes.

 

[Kelavarus]

"the electrical grenades may still pose some harm"

... No shit, sherlock. Electrical grenade. Whether or not the force it's delivered with is harmful, I'm pretty sure 'Harm' is evident in the words 'Electrical Grenade'.

 

[maigo]

there already are taser shotgun shells

 

[amabhy]

3 minutes? Risk of bodily harm?

When its terrorists, murderers, and other scumbags we're talking about, who gives a damn?

 

[kelfen]

guns kill people but this gun leaves a serious bruis

 

[cheepstuff]

*fires the launcher* "oops, i forgot to put replace my grenade with the electric one"

 

[pirateboy]

yep leave it up to the american government to turn this world into sheer hell

 

[SamanuelMC]

Electric Grenade...hrm just throw and iPhone at him, cheaper imo

 

[ColMirage]

A whole new meaning to the word "noob tube".

 

[pythy]

Hate to get one of these "hitting a sensative part of the body" with or without an electrical shock...... Ouch!!

 

[Robert17]

Let's see, two hundred yards away, armed, dangerous, should I call up the Spec 1 with the Mongo Taser, or just open up with a burst from my M4? Wait, he's spotted me, taking aim.........PowPowPow. Next question?

 

[brendano257]

Not to stomp all over them since they are obviously much more educated than me, but in my experience anything that travels about 200ft in less than a second or so tends to do bodily harm.....
/sarcasm

 

[axekick]

This is ridiculous, at what point will they consider "less than lethal force" lethal?

Taser International's own website claims that the Taser XREP(12 gauge taser shotgun cartridge) poses bodily harm from "blunt impact force." It's range is 100 feet so doubling that would seemingly more than double the impact force of the projectile.

I cannot fathom a need to incapacitate someone with a Taser from such a distance where rubber bullets, bean-bags and other traditional methods would not serve the same purpose.

 

[buwish]

No thanks. The flippin' taser prongs would go right through the person being shot.

 

[skora]

If only they could mod this into Counter Strike Source!!!

 

[bin1127]

so their new plan for the middle east is taser everyone?

 

[anamaniac]

Americans and their guns...
I was more interested in them wasting billions on ion propulsion. At least that has legitimate uses...

 

[Platypus]

Sadly, I don't think a lot of readers here recognize the beauty of this supposedly non-lethal projectile. Our enemies in the middle east dress exactly the same as the people we are trying to protect. The troops must wait until they are fired upon before they can use their weapons, and they must physically see the weapon being used.

I say we get some inputs from readers who have actually been in the middle east before we blabber about how useful it would be to someone in the middle east.

One more use for the lightning grenade: fire it at a possible IED (hidden in parked cars, dead dogs, you name it). I'm not an explosives expert, but I would think an electrical charge like this would be able to detonate the IED from a safe distance.