For a while, now, I've been hearing about the Defense Department's plans to outfit a fighting vehicle with a pain ray, a sonic blaster, and a laser dazzler, too. I never figured they'd actually send the thing to Iraq, though. Project Sheriff, I assumed, would just be the military equivalent of a concept car -- a chance to see if some whiz-bang gear really worked together.
But the Pentagon may just wind up deploying this straight-outta-sci-fi jalopy, after all. The Army just got the OK to spend $31.3 million on three deployable Project Sheriff vehicles, Inside Defense is reporting.
Right now, a "non-deployable Spiral 0 prototype" [Sheriff] is "undergoing environmental testing," according to the newsletter -- and waiting for one of the armed services to adopt the program as its own. That looks like it's happened, now. The "Spiral 1" Sheriff will equip either a Stryker fighting vehicle or a Cougar mine-fighter with the dazzler, the blaster, and the like. Oh, and it'll still have guns, too.
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Sounds like a good plan. Hope it proves to reduce the loss of civilian life.
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They say the things been tested to a great extent. I just want to know who would volunteer to be shot with a pain ray and how much they got paid. Or perhaps it was a get out of Iraq free card, just step in front of the pain ray soldier
I hope they don't hurt that sparrow sitting on top of it. That would break the Geneva Convention.
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you can buy stuff like that to play with at home from www.amazing1.com
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