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Home » Sabra Tech » Sand Bullets for Israeli Troops

Sand Bullets for Israeli Troops

IDF_rubber.jpgFirst it was sonic ray guns. Now the Israeli mil­i­tary is “replac­ing its some­times lethal rubber-​​coated steel pel­lets with com­pressed sand bul­lets,” says the AP.

Rubber bul­lets have killed dozens of Palestinians in the past two decades. The new sand bul­lets were orig­i­nally devel­oped for close-​​quarter hostage res­cue sit­u­a­tions…
The new round, in which the head of the bul­let is made from com­pressed sand and can be fired from a reg­u­lar rifle, has already been used in the West Bank against Palestinians protest­ing against the sep­a­ra­tion bar­rier Israel is build­ing, the army said.
The sand bul­let, said to be extremely painful but less dan­ger­ous because it does not pen­e­trate the skin, was devel­oped and first used by Israel’s Prisons Authority, the army said. The rub­ber bul­lets will be phased out.

THERE’S MORE: “I’m glad to see they are switch­ing. It is LONG over­due,” says Sid Heal, a long-​​time vet­eran L.A. Sheriff’s depart­ment vet­eran who’s con­sid­ered one of the world’s lead­ing author­i­ties on non-​​lethal weapons.

My guess is that the “sand” will pro­vide suf­fi­cient mass to gain the stand-​​off dis­tances they needed and obtained with their rub­ber coated steel pel­lets but with reduced abil­ity to pen­e­trate and imbed them­selves into the body…
It sounds like a vari­a­tion of the fran­gi­ble rounds we’ve been exper­i­ment­ing with. It began with a round nick­named the “Avon Round,” that used Xerox pow­der and den­tal plas­ter. It remained intact until it struck an object — and then it released excess kinetic energy by break­ing into “dust.” The breach­ing round got nick­named the “Avon Round” because when it strikes a door lock, it pul­ver­izes itself into harm­less powder.

(Big ups: RC)

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