Wikipedia:
incapacitant
An incapacitant is a substance or device that is used to incapacitate individuals temporarily.
Uses
- Riot control
- Prisoner control
- Crowd control
- Non-lethal battle
Examples
- chemical weapons
- tear gas
- Malodorant (stink weapon)
- CS gas
- Chloroacetophenone (mace)
- Oleoresin Capsicum (extract of cayenne pepper)
- Sticky foam
- kinetic energy weapons
- electric shock weapons
- stun gun
- TASER
- laser induced plasma channel (Electrolaser)
- sound weapons
- sound grenade
- Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD)
- Magnetic Acoustic Device (MAD)
- light weapons
- PHaSR laser-dazzling rifle
- Portable Efficient Laser Testbed (PELT)
- Laser AirCraft CounterMeasures (ACCM)
- remote pain inducing weapons
- PAVA
- Active Denial System
- Directed Energy
- High Power Microwaves (HPM)
- Combination
- Shockrounds piezo-electric tip for projectiles that generates and releases charge on impact
- XREP (eXtended Range Electro-Muscular Projectile
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