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Article: Non-Lethal Weapons Suggested to Incapacitate Terrorists in Airliners.
- Article from:
- Air Safety Week
- Article date:
- October 15, 2001
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The U.S. military is suggesting the use of non-lethal weapons as a means of combating terrorist attacks in the air by disabling the assailants. Not killing them outright, but effecting any assailant's motivational behavior.
The concept, articulated to airline industry officials in a briefing prepared by the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program, may represent a hypothetical "bridge too far." It envisions the use of multiple devices in a simultaneous assault on the senses that would disable everyone in the cabin, to include cabin attendants and any sky marshals that might be aboard. In the face of blinding lights and piercing shrills ...