Creative weaponry???

[Steve007]

Hmmmmm. Is this an Indian replacement for guns or a new food condiment?

Indians for Chili forum?


Indian military to weaponize world's hottest chili

By WASBIR HUSSAIN

The Associated Press
7:21 a.m. Tuesday, March 23, 2010

GAUHATI, India — The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism: the world's hottest chili.

After conducting tests, the military has decided to use the thumb-sized "bhut jolokia," or "ghost chili," to make tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize suspects, defense officials said Tuesday.

The bhut jolokia was accepted by Guinness World Records in 2007 as the world's spiciest chili. It is grown and eaten in India's northeast for its taste, as a cure for stomach troubles and a way to fight the crippling summer heat.

It has more than 1,000,000 Scoville units, the scientific measurement of a chili's spiciness. Classic Tabasco sauce ranges from 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units, while jalapeno peppers measure anywhere from 2,500 to 8,000.

"The chili grenade has been found fit for use after trials in Indian defense laboratories, a fact confirmed by scientists at the Defense Research and Development Organization," Col. R. Kalia, a defense spokesman in the northeastern state of Assam, told The Associated Press.

"This is definitely going to be an effective nontoxic weapon because its pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hide-outs," R. B. Srivastava, the director of the Life Sciences Department at the New Delhi headquarters of the DRDO said.

Srivastava, who led a defense research laboratory in Assam, said trials are also on to produce bhut jolokia-based aerosol sprays to be used by women against attackers and forthe police to control and disperse mobs.

[MoA]

Steve,

Capcisin in a stun grenade is effective. It is like a flash bang mace grenade only worse. Since its absorbed by the skin as well.

Dont take my word for the effectiveness. Get a bottle of Dave's 3 AM Insanity sauce and put a drop on your hand.

[sawbones]

If I am not mistaken this is the same chilly that the pepperball project is based on and already available in the states

http://www.pepperball.com/

sawbones

[Vassili Zaitsev]

They also use the same for drove away wild elephants from the farms to the forest in some part of Africa and some NorthEast Indian States.
I hope if they are using it as a grenade kind to immobolize the terrorists then we can save a lot of money from going to other countries as this will be a desi make.But indian army or BSF or paramilitary forces should wear some mask or something otherwise this chillies are very strong.
I hope this kind of things should not land in the terrorists hand as well...

[WaffenSchmied]

I have to laugh... I used to work with three guys who liked to try to out-macho each other.... One day, one of them brought in a bag of fresh Jalapeno peppers, and they proceeded to see who could eat the most Jalapenos.

A couple of hours later, I was walking past the bathroom - when a series of horrible moans and groans coming through the door stopped me in my tracks. After listening for a moment, I realized it was Mike - one of the three Jalapeno eaters.....

So, naturally I went and got the other two guys who stood outside the bathroom door, taunting Mike and laughing themselves to tears - with Mike all the while continuing to moan and groan, stopping every once in a while to shout at the other two "I am in agony, and It's not funny"! Which, of course sent the other two into fresh fits of uncontrollable laughter....

I have to think that somewhere in India there are three guys engaging in a similar contest.....