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For Good or Evil

Johnny Pneumatic

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The HSV Technologies website is down at the moment; so to know what I'm talking about read this

A device that conducts electricity out to two km to stop criminals without killing them. Great, great idea. But if you can send electricity like that though; what keeps someone from stealing one of these things from a police department, modding it to a tesla coil or other amp and volt stepper-upper, and shocking a Head of State to death from a mile away? How will the Secret Service protect against such a threat. The sniper could be anywhere within a mile. You can't clear a mile around the President of threats.
 
The device is hefty in both size and price tag. Herr expects initial units to fetch $35,000. Law enforcement officials, and perhaps criminals interested in torturing their victims, would probably opt for cheaper handguns.



Wow very cool, but whats wrong with the third sentence?
 
mr rosewater said:
Wow, very cool, but whats wrong with the third sentence?
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I'd use something cheaper. Those plastic zip ties are what I use to bond my victims; that or duct tape.
 
apoger said:
Probably in similar ways that are used to defeat snipers who choose conventional rifles.
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Yeah, those conventional sniper rifles that have an accurate(and this is with a very, very, very skilled user) range of 300 meters or less, and with no wind! Lasers, I need not extol how accurate they are.
 
SkepticJ said:
Yeah, those conventional sniper rifles that have an accurate(and this is with a very, very, very skilled user) range of 300 meters or less, and with no wind! Lasers, I need not extol how accurate they are.
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That's crap. When I was in the army, we regularly shot at targets 300m away, and that with normal assault rifles (H&K G3). I can't say I hit the bullseye with each shot, but I did hit the target.
 
Ryokan said:
That's crap. When I was in the army, we regularly shot at targets 300m away, and that with normal assault rifles (H&K G3). I can't say I hit the bullseye with each shot, but I did hit the target.
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The current record for longest range sniper kill is 2,430 metres (7,972 ft), reportedly accomplished by a Canadian sniper in 2002, during the invasion of Afghanistan, using a .50 BMG McMillan bolt-action rifle. This meant that the round had a flight time of four seconds, and a drop of 44.5 m (146 ft). The previous record was held by Carlos Hathcock, achieved during the Vietnam War, at a distance of 2,250 m.
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Dorian Gray said:
Would a tinfoil hat be a good defense against this device?
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The aluminum foil would have to cover the whole body to form a Faraday cage. So, no to a hat.
I'd love to see Dubya wrapped up like a baked potato!
 
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