Paintball Cornershot

Fellow fans of Future Weapons will most likely be familiar with the Cornershot, a mechanism that permits people to fire pistols/other firearms around corners.



What I didn't know is that Cornershot actually offers a less-lethal version that uses the tried and true A-5 to shoot pepper/rubber balls.

Paintball Markers in Israeli Raid on Turkish Ship - Part 2

As a follow up to this post, I found a video that had some better footage of a paintball marker being used in the Mavi Marmara raid.

Maybe he should have used a Dye Rotor.

Paintball Markers in Israeli Raid on Turkish Ship

Hit play, it will go to the right point in the video.

It was pointed out to me today that during the video of the IDF boarding the Mavi Marmara, one of soldiers can be seen using a paintball marker in a less lethal capacity. Not only is this a great and rare example of candid footage of a less lethal marking device being used, but it could implicate certain things about the IDF's intention of magnitude of force used. Thoughts?

Any ideas as to what marker it is?

Thermal Imaging Active Camouflage

You may remember my article on active camouflage, well this technology is a very cool and current implementation of that idea.

The original article from Defense Update can be found here.