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December 02, 2005
Air Force Unveils "PHaSER" Gun (or "U.S. spends $1 million on giant flashlight")
Can't make this crap up...Well you could, but who needs to?
The United States Air Force had a coming out party this week for its nonlethal, Personal Halting and Stimulation Response (PHaSER) gun.
Mr. Demille, I'm Ready For My Closeup.
"When you 'dazzle' an individual with laser light, it’s pretty much the same effect as if someone shines a flashlight in your eyes," said Maj. Monte Anderson, project leader at ScorpWorks, an internal division within the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate. "The brightness and intensity of the light is so much that it obscures your vision and you can’t see," Anderson said. "The intent is to obscure the adversary’s vision so they can’t make you a target." (MSNBC.com)
Perhaps this can be used to replace white phosphorus as a method for obscuring troop positions.
I have one small question. Why did the airforce develop what appears to be an infantry weapon?
Bedazzled
Posted by MJuhre at December 2, 2005 12:02 PM