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The "defending sensitive locations" thing doesn't make any sense -- you can just put in the clutch or shift your carbomb into neutral and let your inertia carry
by bcoates 13y ago
The "defending sensitive locations" thing doesn't make any sense -- you can just put in the clutch or shift your carbomb into neutral and let your inertia carry you from anywhere this could be realistically be deployed right into the sensitive location.
This is clearly an expensive replacement for a spike strip, something you can deploy to stop a vehicle from fleeing or travelling a long distance, not a short one.
- mikeash 13y agoDepends on what sort of sensitive locations you're talking about. If it's a place where lots of civilians go through, then I could see it being useful. For example, there are (or were?) lots of checkpoints in Iraq and such where civilians were allowed through, but had to stop and be checked first. If a vehicle refused to stop, the soldiers often had little recourse but to open fire. With a system like this, they could first try to disable the vehicle, then start shooting if it doesn't work. The idea is not to use this as a last resort, but rather as a non-lethal way to help weed out false positives, hopefully leading to fewer dead civilians.
- Crito 13y agoIn those situations, where "the vehicle is packed with hundreds of pounds of old soviet artillery shells and/or guys with guns" is a possibility, I strongly suspect that giving them this tool would turn the situation from "shoot the vehicle until it stops" into "Use Safe-Stop and shoot the vehicle until it stops".
- htns 13y agoWell another scenario is to disable any civilian vehicles in range for a quick temporary road block.