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Asymmetric Con icts Drive Military Demand for

Non-Lethal Weapons
Posted on July 9, 2014 (http://www.homelandsecurityresearch.com/blog/asymmetric-conflicts-drive-
military-demand-for-non-lethal-weapons/) by admin
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NLW provide a less-lethal alternative between the options of "Shout and Shoot"

The asymmetric armed conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the turmoil in the Arab world, violent events
such as the August 2011 U.K. street riots, and the July 2014 Israeli-Hamas conflict continue and drive
governments, police and defense establishment decision-makers to seek cost-effective NLW means.
This increased demand will yield a $5.6B cumulative 2014-2020 Military Non-Lethal Weapons Market.

The U.S. Navy, for example, is kick-starting a new

industry development for NLW for uses such as
vehicles and boats, moving or dispersing crowds,
and discouraging attackers or aggressive human
behavior. The Office of Naval Research (ONR)
covers 14 areas including:

1. Non-lethal advanced materials

2. High-power microwave technologies for
counter-material missions
3. Compact active-denial technologies
4. Clear-a-space technologies
5. Human electro-muscular incapacitation
technologies
The Active Denial System, a Raytheon-built
6. Non-lethal directed-energy and non-directed
experimental weapon that uses millimeter waves
energy-based technologies for vehicle or
vessel stopping and other counter-material
targets
7. Non-lethal laser-induced plasma effects at
ranges further than 100 meters
8. Compact non-lethal non-pyrotechnic flash-
bang technologies
9. Compact advanced multi-bang flash-bang
technologies

10. Advanced non-lethal technologies that move,

 suppress, deny, or disable individuals and
crowds through combined effects
11. Compact hail-and-warn technologies through
two-way communications with ranges as far
as 1,500 meters
12. Compact, low-cost non-lethal push-back and
repel technologies
13. Human effects and non-lethal weapon
effectiveness studies, risk assessments, and
evaluations
14. Other next-generation non-lethal
technologies Troops test-fire optical distractors on the aircraft
carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Note how the
beams spread rapidly, reducing the nominal
ocular hazard distance and spreading the beam
over a wider area on targets
Source: U.S. Navy

Another example is the multi-modal Rafael

Samson Non-Lethal Weapon Station intended for
all-round response for low intensity conflict
violence. The vehicle allows its operators to
choose from an array of integrated NLW
modalities (e.g., Sound Blaster Acoustic Device,
Tear/Smoke Grenade launcher, Xenon Based
Dazzler, Impulse Grenade Launcher, 40mm
Grenade Launcher) that can be adapted to the
situation on the ground.
The Samson NL enables responders to effectively Source: Rafael Ltd
address violent situations from inside the host
vehicle. Advanced, high-precision electro-optic
sensors provide them with accurate, real-time
situational awareness, while in-vehicle operation
lets them exercise full control of the non-lethal
provisions. In this way, the crew can respond
accurately, with minimum civilian casualties and
without incurring their own injury.

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