{"id":93302,"date":"2019-07-08T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T19:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/why-the-u-s-marines-want-a-very-special-bullet-a-taser-bullet-to-be-exact"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:25:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T19:25:13","slug":"why-the-u-s-marines-want-a-very-special-bullet-a-taser-bullet-to-be-exact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/why-the-u-s-marines-want-a-very-special-bullet-a-taser-bullet-to-be-exact","title":{"rendered":"Why the U.S. Marines Want a Very Special Bullet (A \u201cTaser\u201d Bullet, to Be Exact)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-the-u-s-marines-want-a-very-special-bullet-a-taser-bullet-to-be-exact.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taser bullets aren\u2019t exactly a new concept\u2014a bullet that zaps you with an electric jolt like a Taser.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what the U.S. Marine Corps wants as a non-lethal munition that can be fired from a regular small arm. The U.S. military has been trying to develop a Taser-like bullet for 12 years but has yet to succeed. This time, the Marines hope to get it right.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military already uses regular X-26 Tasers, pistol-like devices that fire two wired electrode darts that transmit a jolt to incapacitate a target. But not surprising for a device designed for civilian police forces, the wires limit an accurate shot to less than 25 feet, and the target is disabled for only about 5 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taser bullets aren\u2019t exactly a new concept\u2014a bullet that zaps you with an electric jolt like a Taser. That\u2019s what the U.S. Marine Corps wants as a non-lethal munition that can be fired from a regular small arm. The U.S. military has been trying to develop a Taser-like bullet for 12 years but has yet [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}