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これはただの懐中電灯ではない。敵に目くらましを与え、吐き気を催させる"新兵器”なのだ。
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アメリカの国家安全保障省(U.S. Department of Homeland Security)のHPによれば、当局では、カリフォルニア州にあるIntelligent Optical Systems, Incという小さな会社が開発したLED Incapacitator という懐中電灯のような"新兵器”の導入を図るべく、今秋より実験に入り、成功すれば2010年より、警察官、国境警備隊員、州兵達などに使用させるとのことだ。
これは長さ15インチ、幅４インチの懐中電灯のようなもので、これをONにするとダイオードによる強烈な光が敵に目くらましを与え、与えられた方は気が動転して目が回り、吐き気を催し、倒れこむというもの。
開発者のBob LiebermanとVladimir Rubtsovは、これから発せられる光線の色を「悪魔の色」といっているとか。
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何かあったらすぐに撃ち殺す癖のある、たちの悪いカウボーイのようなアメリカ人気質も、この"懐中電灯型新兵器”によって、少しは温和な方に改善されるかな？
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/snapshots/newsletter/2007-07.htm#sick
Enough to Make You Sick
Its inventors call it the LED Incapacitator (L-E-D, as in light-emitting diode). Weapons buffs call it a nonlethal weapon. But test subjects who have buckled and reeled from its nauseating strobe call it other names—none printable.
A later version of the LED Incapacitator, featuring a trimmer head.
A flashlight designed to make you nauseatingly ill? What fiendish minds would invent such a tool? The minds of Bob Lieberman and Vladimir Rubtsov, president and senior scientist of Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., a small R&D company in Torrance, CA. Under a multiphase contract from the S&T Directorate’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Office, with technical direction from S&T program manager Gerald Kirwin, the two physicists are refining an ultra-bright, multicolored, pulsing “lightsaber” that’s more disorienting, dazzling, and dizzying—though a tad less dangerous—than disco. It’s enough to make you sick. And that, Lieberman says, is not always a bad thing.
How does the LED Incapacitator incapacitate? By simultaneously overwhelming the subject both physiologically (temporarily blinding him) and psychophysically (disorienting him). A built-in rangefinder measures the distance to the nearest pair of eyeballs. Then, a “governor” sets the output and pulse train (a series of pulses and rests) to a level, frequency, and duration that are effective, but safe. The colors and pulses continuously change, leaving no time for the brain or eyes to adapt. After a few minutes, the effects wear off.
The light could be used to make a bad guy turn away or shut his eyes, giving authorities enough time to tackle the suspect and apply the cuffs … all while sparing the lives of passersby, hostages, or airline passengers.
An animated cross section shows how red, green, and blue LEDs are focused through an optical plate.
“There are often confrontations at border crossings with suspected illegal aliens or drug runners,” Lieberman says. “You don’t want to hurt or kill them, just take them into custody. With this,” he smiles, “they don’t need to know English to comply.”
Output and size can easily be scaled up to fit the need; immobilizing a mob, for instance, might call for a wide-angle “bazooka” version. Scaling down is more difficult. At 15 inches long by 4 inches wide, the current prototype is more transportable than portable. The next-generation weapon must be as short and svelte as a D-cell Maglite, designed to fit on a duty belt. “Phase 3 will be our shrink phase,” Lieberman says.
This fall, in Phase 2, researchers at Pennsylvania State University will test the LED Incapacitator on volunteers at the school’s Institute of Nonlethal Defense Technology. Intelligent Optical Systems will use the test results to evaluate design features and tweak the strobe’s pattern and colors. “There’s one wavelength that gets everybody,” says Lieberman. “Vlad calls it the evil color.” Further tests are scheduled for the fall, and production could begin by December. By 2010, the LED Incapacitator could be in the hands of thousands of policemen, border agents, and National Guardsmen.
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