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Lightning Weapon: “Things not persons”

Posted by core77.com's design blog in ARTS, BLOGROLL, CREATIVITY, DESIGN, INTERNET, MEDIA, VISUAL

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DangerRoom’s got a curious item on a lightning weapon targeted (oops) at shorting out enemy vehicles (and maybe a little more). Here’s the crux:

Perhaps the most interesting news is that the company, which initially attracted investors with ambitious promises of a revolutionary nonlethal lightning gun, appears now to have thrown this idea out the window. “[T]hey are NOT looking to anti-personnel applications,” MountainRunner tells us. “They said that’s just an area that’s too much of a headache and they’d rather let Taser walk that minefield and they’ll focus on anti-IED and anti-vehicle application (things not persons).”

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