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| Infrared Battlefield Surveillance Shells |
| 2005-06-22 |
| Law Enforcement Associates has announced that it has filed a patent application for the world's first infrared battlefield surveillance shells. The infrared surveillance shells will allow the military to observe enemy troop and equipment movements at night on otherwise unlighted battlefields and areas of operations. The infrared shells can be used by Special Forces and other troops to pin point military targets for aerial assaults without remaining to train lasers on the targets. The infrared surveillance shells allow troops, police and attack helicopters with infrared viewing equipment (nightvison) to view locations of enemy personnel, weapons, vehicles, unlighted buildings and surrounding areas. The shell illumination is undetectable to enemy troops and/or hostage takers without night vision or other special infrared viewing equipment. A typical application for law enforcement would be in the event of a hostage situation, infrared shells could be shot into a house through window openings, thus allowing law enforcement personnel with night vision to be able to see what is happening inside a darkened house without the hostage taker being made aware that he/she has been illuminated. Law Enforcement Associates Corporation has also filed patents on a radio surveillance shell that can be used clandestinely to listen in on possible hostage situations. |
| Posted by:Spavirt Pheng6042 |
| #8 3dc whaten happens if yur an epileptor? |
| Posted by: half 2005-06-22 19:03 |
| #7 ?? That is already in existence since the 90's |
| Posted by: Hupomoque Spoluter7949 2005-06-22 18:47 |
| #6 trailing wife. For close work.. Get a chain of IR (infra red) LEDs (Light emitting diodes). Now attach to a variable speed pulse generator. Hang on your body or about your canoe. Adjust the frequency depending on species. You know you have it right when the start falling out of the air with grand mal seizures. The man who invented it is a good friend's dad. You can thank him for DEET, Deep Woods Off, Off, Windex, PlugIns, and a zillion other inventions at Johnson Wax. Secret is that it is the resonate frequency of the bugs brain. Any stimulus they sense will do. Sound, Light, IR. IR doesn't bother us so it works! DEET is doing a similar thing with chemical stimulus. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-06-22 18:39 |
| #5 My concern too... and what if one of them infared shells went zinging into Mullah Omar's other eye and was embedded inside his skull? Think of the poor operator feeling like he was inside carlsbad Caverns or something.... great big empty void. |
| Posted by: Fun Dung Poo 2005-06-22 13:15 |
| #4 *as I sit here scratching myriads and myriads of bites* use the shells to provide local area denial to mosquito's for outdoor events Yes, please! Would the manufacturer be willing to bill me monthly for regular shipments? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-06-22 13:09 |
| #3 ...infrared shells could be shot into a house through window openings, thus allowing law enforcement personnel with night vision to be able to see what is happening inside a darkened house without the hostage taker being made aware that he/she has been illuminated. Except, of course, that a foreign object has come sailing in through the window. That might give it away some. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2005-06-22 11:09 |
| #2 Great idea... Now used one of Johnson & Johnson's patents and modulate the same shells at the resonate brain frequency of the local species of mosquito (between 200 to 1500 HZ) and use the shells to provide local area denial to mosquito's for outdoor events. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-06-22 10:33 |
| #1 For some mysterious reason I feel like the next to end scene on BLAZING SADDLES, the Sheriff gloriously yelling - "Lets a'go down there and wipe them out"! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-06-22 08:37 |