Injury Risk Assessment of Single Target and Area Fire Less Lethal Munitions
Injury Risk Assessment of Single Target and Area Fire Less Lethal Munitions

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Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

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In the midst of downsizing and budget cuts, the United States Military faces the difficult task of remaining an elite lethal fighting unit while acting as a global police force. In places like Haiti, Somalia, and now Bosnia, the U.S. forces must engage a different type of combatant; unarmed men, women, and children. In order to deal with these types of conflict, the military has turned its focus to non-lethal alternatives. One of these alternatives is specialty impact munitions or kinetic energy rounds. Since each munition is designed for a specific application, a common method of determining a risk of injury related to blunt trauma has to be established. Since these rounds are designed not to penetrate the body, the most applicable means of assessing the potential injury is to determine the severity of blunt trauma. Tests were conducted on the 3-Rib Chest Structure (3-RCS) with an injury criterion developed within the automotive industry to assess blunt thoracic impacts. This criterion called the Viscous Criterion (VC) is dependent on not only the amount of chest deflection but also the rate at which it occurs. These are the two basic components contributing to the severity of injury associated with blunt trauma. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a risk of injury from non-lethal projectiles utilized by the military and law enforcement communities.

Field Artillery Manual Cannon Gunnery
Field Artillery Manual Cannon Gunnery

Author: Department of the Army

Publisher:

Published: 2017-08-19

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 9781975605674

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Training Circular (TC) 3-09.81, "Field Artillery Manual Cannon Gunnery," sets forth the doctrine pertaining to the employment of artillery fires. It explains all aspects of the manual cannon gunnery problem and presents a practical application of the science of ballistics. It includes step-by-step instructions for manually solving the gunnery problem which can be applied within the framework of decisive action or unified land operations. It is applicable to any Army personnel at the battalion or battery responsible to delivered field artillery fires. The principal audience for ATP 3-09.42 is all members of the Profession of Arms. This includes field artillery Soldiers and combined arms chain of command field and company grade officers, middle-grade and senior noncommissioned officers (NCO), and battalion and squadron command groups and staffs. This manual also provides guidance for division and corps leaders and staffs in training for and employment of the BCT in decisive action. This publication may also be used by other Army organizations to assist in their planning for support of battalions. This manual builds on the collective knowledge and experience gained through recent operations, numerous exercises, and the deliberate process of informed reasoning. It is rooted in time-tested principles and fundamentals, while accommodating new technologies and diverse threats to national security.

Kashmir - Scars of Pellet Gun
Kashmir - Scars of Pellet Gun

Author: Mannan Bukhari

Publisher: Partridge Publishing

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 1482850060

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Kashmir - Scars of Pellet Gun, compiled and written by Mannan Bukhari, is about the horror caused by the use of Pellet Gun in Kashmir. After the worldwide acrimony over the high number of fatalities during protests in 2008, 2009, and 2010, pellet gun was introduced in Kashmir as a nonlethal alternative to bullets. But though the government introduced it as a nonlethal alternative to minimize the damage to life, however, it failed to produce the desired results and proved deadly at many times, leading to deaths and fatal injuries. This new weapon not only killed people but affected the physical as well as the psychological persona of the victims in such a manner so as to make them and their families suffer for the whole life. This volume deals with the pain and pangs of the victims and its overall impact on their families and the society in general. The significance of this book Kashmir Scars of Pellet Gun, lies in collection and collating of data acquired through RTI, medical practitioners experiences and observations on pellet caused injuries and fatalities, stories of some of the survivors, accounts of family members and others that recalls real life happenings as they unfold and their aftermath.

Off Target
Off Target

Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization)

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 170

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Thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed or injured during the three weeks of fighting from the first air strikes on March 20 to April 9, 2003, when Baghdad fell to U.S.-led coalition forces. Human rights investigated the conduct of the war during a five-week mission in Iraq. This report documents Iraqi violations of international humanitarian law, including use of human shields, abuse of the red cross and red crescent emblems, use of antipersonnel landmines, location of military objects in protected places, and failure to take adequate precautions to protect civilians from the dangers resulting from military operations.

Firearms and Violence
Firearms and Violence

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2005-01-13

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0309091241

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For years proposals for gun control and the ownership of firearms have been among the most contentious issues in American politics. For public authorities to make reasonable decisions on these matters, they must take into account facts about the relationship between guns and violence as well as conflicting constitutional claims and divided public opinion. In performing these tasks, legislators need adequate data and research to judge both the effects of firearms on violence and the effects of different violence control policies. Readers of the research literature on firearms may sometimes find themselves unable to distinguish scholarship from advocacy. Given the importance of this issue, there is a pressing need for a clear and unbiased assessment of the existing portfolio of data and research. Firearms and Violence uses conventional standards of science to examine three major themes - firearms and violence, the quality of research, and the quality of data available. The book assesses the strengths and limitations of current databases, examining current research studies on firearm use and the efforts to reduce unjustified firearm use and suggests ways in which they can be improved.

Non-lethal Weapons as Legitimising Forces?
Non-lethal Weapons as Legitimising Forces?

Author: Brian Rappert

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-11-23

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1135760217

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As mankind finds ever more impious ways to kill and maim, some look to non-lethal weapons as a fix. Brian Rappert discusses the technologies involved and the ethics of, for example blinding someone with a laser, leaving them blind forever, versus killing them outright.

Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Protection of the Human Person
Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Protection of the Human Person

Author: Mauri, Diego

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-05-24

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1802207678

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This book aims to understand how public organizations adapt to and manage situations characterized by fluidity, ambiguity, complexity and unclear technologies, thus exploring public governance in times of turbulence.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Published: 1972-02

Total Pages: 48

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.