Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response rifle
- Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response rifle
The Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response rifle (PHASR) is a prototype non-lethal laser dazzler developed by the U.S. Department of Defense. Its purpose is to temporarily disorient and blind a target. Blinding laser weapons have been tested in the past, but were banned under the 1995 UN Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons. The PHASR rifle, a low-intensity laser, can skirt this regulation, as the blinding effect is apparently temporary. It also uses a two-wavelength laser. The PHASR was developed at Kirtland Air Force Base, part of the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate in New Mexico.
Its name is a backronym inspired by the name of the phaser, a fictional Star Trek beam weapon, and the shape of the weapon also vaguely resembles that of the phaser rifle used in the latter part of , as well as some of the later movies.
See also
*Veiling-glare laser
*Directed-energy weapon
*Dazzler (weapon)
External links
* [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8275 US military sets laser PHASRs to stun]
* [http://laserdazzler.net/ LE Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the Laser Dazzler]
* [http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123012699 Air Force News Release]
* [http://www.un.org/millennium/law/xxvi-18-19.htm Text of the UN Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons]
* [http://untreaty.un.org/ENGLISH/bible/englishinternetbible/partI/chapterXXVI/treaty3.asp List of countries participating in the UN Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons]
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