Senjata Senter Bikin Muntah

Senjata Senter Bikin Muntah

oleh Prima Santhos

Homeland security membuat kontrak dengan Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc untuk membuat senjata berupa senter LED. Senter ini jika diarahkan ke seseorang, dan mulai mengeluarkan cahaya terang dalam yang panjang gelombangnya berganti ganti, bisa membuat orang menjadi terdisorientasi dan bahkan muntah. Homeland Security berharap bisa memberikan senjata ini ke agen patroli perbatasan dan National Guardsmen pada tahun 2010.

Sumber: FoxNews

It looks like a big flashlight — but it's really a nonlethal weapon designed to make you sick.

Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., of Torrance, Calif., has been granted a contract by the Department of Homeland Security to develop what it calls the "LED Incapacitator," according to a DHS online newsletter.

The handheld device using light-emitting diodes to emit super-bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths, causing disorientation, nausea and even vomiting in whomever it's pointed at.

• Click here to read the newsletter writeup.

"There's one wavelength that gets everybody," says IOS President Bob Lieberman. "Vlad [IOS top scientist Vladimir Rubtsov] calls it 'the evil

Phase 1 of the contract — creating a working prototype — has already been completed, and Phase 2 will begin this fall as researchers at Penn State's Institute of Nonlethal Defense Technology put the puke-saber through its paces

"Phase 3 will be our shrink phase," Lieberman said, admitting that the prototype, 15 inches long with a 4-inch lens, is too large and heavy to be comfortably carried on a belt.

DHS hopes to equip police, Border Patrol agents and National Guardsmen with the barf-beamers by 2010.