The U.S. Navy Wants Nonlethal Weapons

[SecularMotion]

The Office of Naval Research works to make sure sailors, admirals, and Marine commandants of the future have as many tools available for winning the wars of the future. At times, this translates into more accurate or more powerful killing tools. A recent contract solicitation reveals that ONR is also looking in the other direction: they want weapons that don't kill, and they want a variety of them. If developed, together these technologies would constitute a range of weapons that could make the next war of counter insurgency a somewhat less bloody affair.

Here are the fourteen kinds of non-lethal weapons research ONR wants:

• non-lethal advanced materials and non-lethal payloads to hail or warn, move, deny area, suppress, and temporarily disable individuals at ranges greater than 100 meters;
  
• high-power microwave technologies for counter-material missions
  
• compact active-denial technologies;
  
• clear-a-space technologies;
  
• human electro-muscular incapacitation technologies;
  
• non-lethal directed-energy and non-directed energy-based technologies for vehicle or vessel stopping and other counter-material targets;
  
• non-lethal laser-induced plasma effects at ranges farther than 100 meters for counter-personnel and counter-material missions;
  
• compact non-lethal non-pyrotechnic flash-bang technologies;
  
• compact advanced multi-bang flash-bang technologies;
  
• advanced non-lethal technologies that move, suppress, deny, or disable through combined effects on individuals and crowds;
  
• compact hail-and-warn technologies through two-way communications that work out to ranges as far as 1,500 meters;
  
• compact, low-cost non-lethal push-back and repel technologies;
  
• human effects and non-lethal weapons weapon effectiveness studies, risk assessments, and evaluations; and
  other next-generation non-lethal technologies.
  

Translated out of Pentagonese it breaks down into a few categories: stuff that destroy weapons and equipment but not human flesh, stuff that stuns or disables humans but doesn't kill them, and stuff that moves humans out of the way without killing them.

http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/us-navy-wants-nonlethal-weapons

[ileus]

1. I carry less lethal everyday...good alternative if you're in a controlled

environment where you know there will be help nearby, and don't expect multiple attackers. Not so safe if you're alone or trying to defend your family or home effectively. As normal civilians we don't get to use a deathray at >100m from the top of an APV.

Don't take chances with you life or the lives of your loved ones...I know I don't.


Wonder who the target audience for the Navy LLs is going to be???




What does LL or the Navy have to do with the 2A?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. "What does LL or the Navy have to do with the 2A?"

If I was to hazard a guess I'm thinking the point of the OP is to tell RKBA'ers to surrender their weapons in favor of something less lethal. However, this will probably remain a supposition as the poster seldom ventures beyond the OP save to make personal comments.

[SecularMotion]

3. Arms = Weapons

All guns are weapons, but not all weapons are guns.

[SQUEE]

4. Arms is broad definition and a weapon does not have to be lethal

I believe the 2A covers guns, CS dispenser, the PR-24 and knives as well as many other weapons. They all are arms, not all are deadly in design, but can be.