Non-Lethal Ship Defense Response Systems (Anti-surface)

"asdStopping persons in their tracks without risking injury is a tough assignment. We don't have the ultimate answer. Instead, we propose to build an inexpensive delivery vehicle that can carry a TBD small payload, or non-lethal warhead out beyond 500meters with pinpoint (2 meter CEP) accuracy. This delivery vehicle is essentially a miniature inertially guided Non-Lethal Cruise Missile (NLCM), made possible and affordable by new MEMS sensors. Fired from a handheld 40mm grenade launcher, it reaches out500 meters in under 6 seconds, cruising with non-lethal kinetic energy at 300 fps (paintball speed). The `warhead' can be a rubber nose, noise/flash maker, sticky goo, tear gas, fireworks, or any future combination of non-lethal deterrent. Built entirelywith COTS components (and a MEMS IMU we are completing in an independent project), we can demonstrate this miniature munition with full range flight tests next year in Phase 2. Benefits: This technology has wide application in both government andcommercial security business (high value site protection) and in law enforcement (non-lethal weapons/crowd control)."