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:
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.
More at Danger Room
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.