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Video: Army’s Leaping ‘Bots Grow Lizard Tails
The military's robot army continues to evolve by leaps and bounds. Quite literally, now that some of the 'bots have grown tails. The post Video: Army’s Leaping ‘Bots Grow Lizard Tails appeared first on...
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Flash, Bang, Ow! Less-Lethal Bullet ‘Attacks Three Senses’ (UPDATED)
Less-lethal weapons-makers are busy coming up with their own brainy bullets...Like a munition that senses when it strikes soft flesh, and then deploys a devastating payload to "attack three of the five...
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Stun, Spray, Shoot! New Less-Lethal Weapon Does It All
From underwater stun guns to burning hot pain rays, the Pentagon has plenty of far-out ideas for a trove of futuristic less-lethal weapons. And one American inventor might have outdone the entire...
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Video: I Got Blasted by the Pentagon’s Pain Ray — Twice
The military is developing a huge milimeter-wave cannon, able to burn someone's skin with a blast of energy and heat without killing him. One of our reporters got burned by it -- twice. And we filmed...
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Army’s ‘Magic Bullet’ Will Hang Out in Midair, But Won’t Kill You
This is the recipe for peak absurdity in weapons design. One part bazooka round; one part suicidal drone; one part stun round. What the U.S. Army hopes will emerge from that mix is a warhead that can...
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Special Ops Wants Weapons to Stop Ships, Paralyze People
U.S. Special Operations and Command (SOCOM) is looking to make a few upgrades. Among them: new weapons with adjustable intensity levels -- from non-lethal to lethal -- that are capable of doing...
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Pentagon’s Mega Stun Gun Could Blast You Unconscious
Imagine a stun gun that doesn't just drop you to the floor, but renders you unconscious for several minutes. This tech is called a "nano-second electrical pulse," and the Pentagon believes it could be...
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The Pokemon Plot: How One Cartoon Inspired the Army to Dream Up a Seizure Gun
In 1998, a secret Army intelligence analysis suggested a new way to take out enemies: blast them with electromagnetic energy until their brains overload and they start to convulse. Amazingly, it was an...
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Benghazi Commission Practically Demands Pain Rays at Embassies
Of all the proposed fixes for embassy security in the wake of the Benghazi disaster, the need for "non-lethal" technologies endorsed by the independent commission into Benghazi is the most exotic. The...
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Pentagon Wants ‘Human Surrogate’ for Ray Gun Tests
The Pentagon's electromagnetic pain rays are about to make a new buddy. In the form of an anthropomorphic test dummy that's gonna get blasted by everything the Pentagon's non-lethal weapons agency can...
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