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Never mind James Bond - it looks like the police force are getting all the cool toys. Popular Science flagged down a cop-car and went shopping for some serious future law-enforcement tech, and came up with a list of must-haves that is by turns jaw droppingly cool or pants wettingly scary. As the environment that todays police are tasked to work in develops - and by “develops” I mean the bad guys are swapping knives and pistols for machine guns and bombs - then so do their demands of the kit they’re equipped with. Here’s a quick run-down of just some of the stuff that the felon of tomorrow can look forward to…
This little beauty is a machine gun capable of spitting out 700 rounds of pepper-spray filled pellets a minute, creating a cloud of the stuff up to 200 feet away. It’s been designed to manage unruly crowds in a non-lethal way, and I imagine it’d be pretty effective.
Check out after the cut for more high-tech cop toys…
In the olden days you might have a mirror on a stick to peer round the corner with; in the not too distant future that’s been upgraded to full 360-degree vision. The Dragon Egg, shown above, is a 2 pound lump of polymer-encased camera and transmitter, which is thrown through a window to give an instant view of what’s going on inside a suspect building. It can transmit images from each of the four cameras to a handheld display up to 1,000 feet away.
If there aren’t any windows handy, then how about a radar array capable of giving a view of what’s going on inside a room by holding it up against the wall outside (shown above). If, however, they’re on the move, then a grill-mounted cannon up at the front of your cruiser can tag a getaway vehicle with a GPS-enabled projectile. This has the added bonus of cutting down on the number of dangerous high-speed chases the police - and unwary public - are involved in.
This is just a few of the cool gadgets coming soon; make sure you check out the Popular Science article for the rest (plus some video of them in action!)
Cop Tech 2010 [Popular Science]
I bet that our law-enforcement agency’s have a lot more tech than we know about at this time, well (MI5, NIA etc).
I am sure there is more fact to that than fiction.
many weapons are develop quitely, and hardly any of them made it to mass production use