非致命技術與武器

Nonlethal Weapons

近幾年來,在國際上廣爲流行「非致命武器與技術」、「非殺傷性武器與技術」、「反裝備武器與技術」等名詞。究其含義,大同小異。非致命武器與技術的崛起是軍事技術迅速發展的必然結果。它是一種「軟殺傷」手段,目前雖不能獨立運用於作戰,也不能取代「硬殺傷」武器,但是,同「硬殺傷」武器的有機配合欲可收到事半功倍的作戰效果。因而非致命武器也被認爲是現代戰爭的另一種「力量倍增器」。非致命武器與技術種類相當廣,受篇幅所限,本專題僅介紹當今較爲成熟的高功率微波武器,激光眩目武器和計算機病毒武器等數種。

Nonlethal weapons mean that using them can have an effect of psychological press- ure and cause physiological sufferings such as blindness, mental disorder, behaviour runaway, and the heart and the lungs failure without massive deaths. The rapid development of variour non- lethal weapons in recent years(some have been put in use in actual combat, e.g. US Stingray laser emitter) has put questions to the use of existing weaponry and the change of future war pa- tterns.