US Army to test UAVs armed with ultra-bright strobe to work as crowd control weapon

Maxa Beam strobe W200

The US Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) plans to demonstrate the use of a 7.5 million candlepower strobe floodlight system mounted on board an unmanned air vehicle as a non-lethal crowd-control system.

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