Ammunition
Less-lethal launchers can fire various sorts of ammunition:
- Impact projectile. These rely on kinetic energy, e.g. rubber bullets.
- Teargas cartridge, chemical riot control agent.
- Pepper spray, chemical riot control agent.
- Stun ammo
- Smoke round
- Shotgun shell.
- Explosive. Largely for military use.
- Incendiary. Largely for military use.
- Sound 180db Sound emitting electric Projectile
- GLIMPS (Grenade-Launched Imaging Modular Projectile System). This is a 40 mm caliber projectile which contains a small camera which transmits TV images of what it sees.
To avoid breaking the projectile up, less-lethal cartridges are often propelled by black powder, which when fired may make an eruption of sparks and smoke which is spectacularly large to those accustomed to modern cartridges propelled by more modern propellants: see images at .
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