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Radio-beam device can disable car and boat engines from 50 meters

Thursday, December 5, 2013 18:53
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E2V has developed a non-lethal weapon that can disable the engines of motor vehicles and small boats at a distance of up to 50meters in under three seconds.

Dubbed RF Safe-Stop, the unit, which weighs approximately 350kg, has so far been integrated into Nissan Nevara and Toyota Land Cruisers and is designed to temporarily disable a vehicle’s electronic systems and bring it to a halt. Such non-lethal systems are said to be particularly suited to stopping vehicles suspected as being used as car bombs.

Andy Wood, product manager at e2v, told The Engineer that RF Safe-Stop can be fitted also into ground, fixed base installations, rib-type boats and that there are ‘blueprint’ ideas to integrate it into a helicopter.

The non-lethal systems generate intense RF (radio frequency) pulses and Wood euphemistically said these pulses ‘confuse’ a vehicle’s electronics, rendering them temporarily inoperable.

RF Safe-Stop works differently on different vehicles although the principle of coupling electromagnetic waves into the target’s wiring looms remain the same.

This is similar to the device used in the movie the Dark Knight Rises by batman. However, the device in the movie was smaller.

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  • and this can also be used against ALL vehicles!

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