{"id":95454,"date":"2019-08-28T12:02:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T19:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/vortex-ring-gun"},"modified":"2019-08-28T12:02:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T19:02:42","slug":"vortex-ring-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/vortex-ring-gun","title":{"rendered":"Vortex ring gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vortex-ring-gun2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could be used for fires aswell.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The <b>vortex ring gun<\/b> is an experimental <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Non-lethal_weapon\" title=\"Non-lethal weapon\">non-lethal weapon<\/a> for crowd control that uses high-energy <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vortex_ring\" title=\"Vortex ring\">vortex rings<\/a> of gas to knock down people or spray them with marking ink or other chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>The concept was explored by the US Army starting in 1998, and by some commercial firms. Knockdown of distant individuals currently seems unlikely even if the rings are launched at theoretical maximum speed.<sup id=\u201d cite_ref-1\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vortex_ring_gun#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> As for the delivery of chemicals, leakage during flight is still a problem.<sup class=\u201d noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact\u201d style=\u201d white-space: nowrap;\u201d>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia: Citation_needed\" title=\"Wikipedia: Citation needed\"> citation needed<\/a> ]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Weapons based on similar principles but different designs and purposes have been described before, typically using acetylene-air or hydrogen\u2013oxygen explosions to create and propel the vortices.<sup id=\u201d cite_ref-2\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vortex_ring_gun#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could be used for fires aswell. The vortex ring gun is an experimental non-lethal weapon for crowd control that uses high-energy vortex rings of gas to knock down people or spray them with marking ink or other chemicals. The concept was explored by the US Army starting in 1998, and by some commercial firms. Knockdown [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95454","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=95454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}