US military malodorant missiles kick up a stink (solution to stop caravan invasion?)

new scientist ^ | orig 2012

[doug from upland]

IMAGINE being hit by a smell worse than anything you’ve ever encountered. It combines the reek of sewage with pungent rotting meat. It is nauseating, and so intense that you rush for the door. That is what it would be like to experience a malodorant – a non-lethal weapon being developed by the US to drive targets out into the open. “It combines the reek of sewage with pungent rotting meat. It is so intense that you rush for the door” The use of chemical agents in war is banned under the international Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Even compounds often used by police, such as tear gas, are prohibited in war.

But the US Department of Defense (DoD) thinks it has found a loophole that will allow superpowered stink bombs to be added to the US military arsenal.

[doug from upland]

More at WIKI - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_(weapon)

[gaijin]

FIFTY THOUSAND

[married21]

Remember when the protestors got into the Congressman’s office during the kavanaugh hearings? I think the congressman and his staff could don their masks, drop one of these stinkbombs and get back to work. There will be no occupying people’s offices any more.

[centurion316]

Ready to rock and roll:

The LRAD Sound Cannon is an acoustic weapon and communication device…

Developed by the LRAD corporation to broadcast messages and pain-inducing “deterrent” tones over long distances, LRAD devices come in various iterations that produce varying degrees of sound. They can be mounted to a vehicle or handheld. The device produces a sound that can be directed in a beam up to 30-degree wide, and the military-grade LRAD 2000X can transmit voice commands at up to 162dB up to 5.5 miles away.

[SMARTY]

I hope Trump has a plan because there has certainly been enough time to work that out. It’s not like they are sneaking up on us

[Yo-Yo]

Whatever happened to the US Army's Active Denial System that used microwaves to break up protesters?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmuyLIrSjxI

[mbarker12474]

Then, after setting foot on U.S. soil, and fleeing to some other location on U.S. soil, the invading little army could speak the magic words asking for asylum AND ALSO file a lawsuit for human rights denial or some such nonsense.

The stink bombs should be used on the judge who ruled that setting foot on U.S. soil and uttering the magic words grants rights to the foreign invader.

Real bullets should be used on the Guatemalans and Hondurans and Mexicans and ISIS agents and charlatans taking part in this little political invasion. While they are still on Mexican soil.

[tet68]

We should put signs on the border that say...

Welcome to CANADA!

[LibWhacker]

The use of chemical agents in war is banned under the CWC.

Just invent an odor mirror!

[Buckeye McFrog]

It’s Mexico. Who would notice?

[polymuser]

A 50,000 person border incursion is coming?

Time for POTUS to formally call up the Reserves AND our Militia to the southern border?

[Magnum44]

Another link with some good options already employed by our military forces:

https://jnlwp.defense.gov/Current-Non-Lethal-Weapons/

[catnipman]

and then there’s the bowel-loosening frequency cannons ....

[Tell It Right]

I forgot about those. I’m for it if it’s away from American population centers.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It combines the reek of sewage with pungent rotting meat.

They swabbed Hillary's armpits?

[Magnum44]

I like this option in particular:

https://jnlwp.defense.gov/Current-Non-Lethal-Weapons/Modular-Crowd-Control-Munition/

The Modular Crowd Control Munition is designed to deny access into/out of an area to individuals and suppress individuals. This technology has the potential to support multiple missions including: ◾Entry control points ◾Defensive actions ◾Crowd control The Modular Crowd Control Munition is the same dimension as a Claymore Mine and is capable of blunt trauma impact. The explosive munition sends 600 rubber balls out at high speeds to suppress targets.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

It probably wouldn’t work for this lot.

[Phil DiBasquette]

Brown note broadcast! Crank it up to 11!

[DannyTN]

They need to get out in front and blame this caravan on the left and on the left’s desire to be able to splash some dead wall attackers on the front page prior to the elections.

[dead]

Blast Yoko Ono songs the final 200 miles of terrain.