Question:
Do we still use "sticky foam" as a non-lethal weapon in the military?
Zelda Hunter
2007-11-17 05:02:48 UTC
"Sticky foam is an incapacitant, used when non-lethal force is required, consisting of various extremely tacky and/or tenacious materials carried in compressed form with a propellant and used to block, entangle, and impair individuals. A National Institute of Justice-funded project at Sandia National Laboratory developed a "gun" which could fire multiple shots of sticky foam. After testing the product for corrections applications, Sandia provided the U.S. Marine Corps Operation United Shield with sticky foam guns and supporting equipment to assist in the withdrawal of UN Peacekeepers from Somalia. Problems with this technology include: the serious risk of smothering the subject; skin clean-up (the foam may not be toxic, but solvents are often harsh); "gun" clogging; targeting and firing; and gun cleaning. The Marine Corps reportedly successfully used the sticky foam guns as part of the operation in Somalia."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_foam
Four answers:
2007-11-17 17:19:05 UTC
No they never used it. Only silly string for trip wires. No military service has ever used it. They may have tested it or might use it for riot control but never for military use. In war it kill or be killed not stick them and hope not to die. Non-lethal is for riot control like I sad before.
2017-01-05 21:47:35 UTC
Which modern-day militia is doing this? i do no longer think of they could be very effectual! Lethality oftentimes refers to killing the enemy, yet modern-day conflict concepts concentration greater on 'killing' the enemies weapon gadget, no longer neccesarily killing the guy; an enemy without a weapon gadget being extremely threat unfastened. weapons technologies is oftentimes geared toward attaining specific 'effects', which includes disabling an plane, deliver, or motor vehicle (no longer neccesarily killing the occupants). besides the undeniable fact that, it form of feels extremely clean that the main clever procedures of combating those structures would perhaps be deadly to the occupants to boot.
oaklandr8ers24
2007-11-17 06:44:44 UTC
Not the Navy
CHECKSIXX
2007-11-17 07:22:16 UTC
No, not at all...not even in the inventory.


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