Pentagon seriously looks into phasers

May 9, 2009 · Posted in Uncategorized 

Trekkies rejoice…

The famous “set phasers to stun” command sums up the weapon’s two key advantages: It has several different modes, and it can be used to knock out a target without harming them. Both of these are capabilities that the military has been seeking ever since they got serious about non-lethal arms in the 1990’s. The fictional phaser has always been a benchmark for nonlethal weapons, and it has inspired numerous directed energy projects.

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