Airsoft “grenades” going military

Danger Room reports that the US Army is look at developing a less-lethal grenade that “shower of high velocity rubber pellets that sting and disorient”.

Airsofters have long been using non-lethal gas powered reloadable “grenades” such as this one from Airsplat.com:

Ac-Ai-Grenade-B

It will be interesting to see what the military come up with. A gas system instead of a pyrotechnic solution would definitely decrease the danger of injuring or killing people in a crowd which is one of the problems with flashbangs.

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Steve Dec 21st 2008 military, weapons Tags: , , One Comment

One Response to “Airsoft “grenades” going military”

  1. existingthingon 01 Jan 2009 at 10:29 am link comment

    Interesting. LASD uses something similar for prison riots, though I think they use an actual charge instead of compressed air. The idea is to create a flash, a bang, and pain of impact on the skin. It’s enough to give prisoners pause, even if there’s no blood.

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