Accession Number:

ADA056584

Title:

The Evaluation of Less-Lethal Weapons

Personal Author(s):

Corporate Author:

HUMAN ENGINEERING LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD

Report Date:

1977-12-01

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.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Supplementary Note:

See also Rept. nos: HEL-TM-20-75, ADA016 869, HEL-TM-21-75, ADA016868, HEL-TM-3-76, ADA020477, HEL-TM-4-76, ADA020842 and HEL-TM-24-76, A028218.

Pages:

0194

Communities Of Interest:

Modernization Areas:

Distribution Statement:

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Contract Number:

LEAA-J-IAA-014-2

Contract Number 2:

LEAA-J-005-4

File Size:

11.65MB