ST-like Weapons Being Developed

The search for a new non-lethal weapons continues. Unfortunately, a lot more development needs to occur. Sunstrike project sounds promising:

"For Peter Bitar, the future of directed energy boils down to money.
Bitar heads Indiana-based Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems Ltd., which makes small blinding lasers used in Iraq. But his real project is a nonlethal energy device called the StunStrike.
Basically, it fires a bolt of lightning. It can be tuned to blow up explosives, possibly to stop vehicles and certainly to buzz people. The strike can be made to feel as gentle as "broom bristles'' or cranked up to deliver a paralyzing jolt that "takes a few minutes to wear off.''

This is a apparently a working prototype. The issue is making it deployable by an individual soldier.

"At present, StunStrike is a 20-foot tower that can zap things up to 28 feet away. The next step is to shrink it so it could be wielded by troops and used in civilian locales like airplane cabins or building entrances."

And the ninnies in the Penatagon want to spend a bunch of money on new airplanes and junk like the Crusader when projects like this need money. Not to mention the idiots in Congress that want to spend tax money to build bridges to nowhere.


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