Acoustically Rate Enhanced Particle Scavenging (AREPS)

"In order to prevent chem./bio attacks before they occur, the US military must be willing to strike chem/bio weapons, storage facilities and research centers before the chemical or biological agents can be used to kill people in the United States. Theproblem however, is that bombing such facilities results in collateral footprints that may exceed the size of a nation, putting millions of civilian non-combatants at risk.It is therefore imperative that the US develop weapons that can mitigate the collateral footprint associated with defeating a nation's/organization's WMD capabilities. SARA proposes a concept where collateral release neutralization is achieved by drivingcounter-agent/agent aerosol particles into one another with intense sound energy. This concept is supported by SARA laboratory results that show aerosol collision rates can be enhanced by a factor of 320,000 with intense sound waves. In addition toeffective neutralization, acoustically rate enhanced particle scavenging(AREPS) has the potential of achieving added levels of defeat by causing much of the agent to fall out of their air immediately, accelerating rates of long term fallout, and by movingaerosol agent particles above the size limit where they could be respirated by potential victims. The benefits of a acoustically rate enhanced particle scavenging (AREPS) muniton will be:¿ strong agent aerosol neutralization¿ immediate agent particle removal from a col