Weapon From DSEi Catalogue

This is an advertisement for a weapon taken from the 2001 Catalogue for DSEi - the UK's largest arms fair. This particularly vicious air-bursting shell is designed to project shrapnel into the face of its target. What is remarkable is the gung-ho style in which it is presented. Like a bad trailer for an all-action Hollywood movie, the voice-over tells us that "there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide!" The computer graphics keep the viewer removed from the reality of the mutilation that the shell is designed to inflict. The DSEi arms fair is packed with thousands of such products on sale to repressive regimes from around the world. Shutting down DSEi is the aim of various campaigns including Disarm DSEi and the Campaign Against the Arms Trade.
http://www.dsei.org/
http://www.caat.org.uk/armsfairs/dsei.php

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• DSEi
• 40mm
• air burst
• munition
• automatic grenade launcher

[DisarmDSEiNottm]

I'm pretty sure I've heard this clip's narrator on a computer game. (Doom 3 maybe?) Can anyone confirm?

[ireelyhateyou]

sound like this gives the narrarator a woody

[Puzzoozoo]

"As long as there are men there will be wars." Alberet Einstein

[djasteriks]

What a total abomination. Shame on those who uphold this mess!

[wallball5]

"There's no where to run, no where to hide." I don't feel safe in the world anymore.

[AlgeKalipso]

Thanks for giving more powerful weapons to skynet.

[AlgeKalipso]

Thanks for arming skynet.

[seriouslybad6767]

I'd love to see this against a flock of geese

[joeytwiddle]

2:07 40mm AGL airbursting system makes a white board wobble!

[joeytwiddle]

this guy reminds me of Zapp Brannigan

[Ieatutube]

Weapons like this are changing the face of warfare. I didn't consider the air-burst rounds significant as 40mm rifle projectiles but this video gives me the impression that I should. These rounds (while still expensive) are only marginally sophisticated by modern standards. Anyone can replicate such weapons. Here we see one or two rounds taking the place of hundreds or thousands at a presumably similar cost. And yes, the aliens at 1:47 have the more advanced plasma death rays.