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http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrori...eless_shotgun_round_extends_taser_reach/9706/
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 14 (UPI) -- A shotgun-fired TASER round that will be released next month will give U.S. police officers the ability to use non-deadly force at much greater distances.
The XREP round, which will be unveiled at a conference July 9, is a wireless projectile that delivers the now-familiar electrical jolt that incapacitates a suspect without doing any serious damage.
Current TASER devices consist of darts connected to the weapon by wire. Although users need not come into direct contact with the target, they have to be within a few feet of a likely violent individual to put it to use.
The XREP, however, will allow officers to zap a suspect from a safer distance using a standard 12-gauge shotgun. Current police TASERS generally are carried by supervisors, so the shotgun approach could conceivably put the technology in more patrol cars.
"The XREP introduces not only amazingly miniaturized TASER technology, but also groundbreaking flight stabilization and microprocessor-controlled intelligent electrode selection technologies contained in a package that weighs only 14 grams, or half an ounce," CEO Rick Smith said in a statement Thursday. "The XREP projectile is ... the most sophisticated weapon system ever launched from a 12-gauge shotgun platform."
The Arizona company plans to conduct field tests of the XREP this fall followed by release to customers sometime next year.
http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrori...eless_shotgun_round_extends_taser_reach/9706/
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 14 (UPI) -- A shotgun-fired TASER round that will be released next month will give U.S. police officers the ability to use non-deadly force at much greater distances.
The XREP round, which will be unveiled at a conference July 9, is a wireless projectile that delivers the now-familiar electrical jolt that incapacitates a suspect without doing any serious damage.
Current TASER devices consist of darts connected to the weapon by wire. Although users need not come into direct contact with the target, they have to be within a few feet of a likely violent individual to put it to use.
The XREP, however, will allow officers to zap a suspect from a safer distance using a standard 12-gauge shotgun. Current police TASERS generally are carried by supervisors, so the shotgun approach could conceivably put the technology in more patrol cars.
"The XREP introduces not only amazingly miniaturized TASER technology, but also groundbreaking flight stabilization and microprocessor-controlled intelligent electrode selection technologies contained in a package that weighs only 14 grams, or half an ounce," CEO Rick Smith said in a statement Thursday. "The XREP projectile is ... the most sophisticated weapon system ever launched from a 12-gauge shotgun platform."
The Arizona company plans to conduct field tests of the XREP this fall followed by release to customers sometime next year.