Accession Number:

ADA056584

Title:

The Evaluation of Less-Lethal Weapons

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

HUMAN ENGINEERING LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD

Personal Author(s):

• Egner, Donald O.

Report Date:

1977-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

194.0

Abstract:

The primary program objective was to establish a methodology for evaluating the merits of candidate less-lethal weapons. The first portion of the work was done in Fiscal Year 1973 and was concerned with weapons that employ kinetic energy as the effects mechanisms. Treatment of other mechanisms chemical, electrical was general, with detailed work completed in mid-1975. This report pulls this work together and presents the state-of-the-art as of late 1976.

Descriptors:

• *NONLETHAL AGENTS
• *RIOT CONTROL
• *ANTIPERSONNEL WEAPONS
• PISTOLS
• SHOCK
• CHEMICAL AGENTS
• LAUNCHERS
• RIOT CONTROL AGENTS
• KINETIC ENERGY PROJECTILES
• LAW ENFORCEMENT
• ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
• BAGS

Subject Categories:

• Sociology and Law
• Chemical, Biological and Radiological Warfare
• Ammunition and Explosives

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE