Technology Mashup

Not quite sure how velocity of a pointy projective can be adequately tailored with any certainty. Can you imagine the court case - "your Honour, the gun was set to wound and must have been faulty!". Um!

Toy rocket inspires variable-speed bullets - The technology behind liquid-hydrogen-propelled rockets is being used to make guns that can switched from "wound" to "kill"

 

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