NATO led testing of non-lethal weapons aims to trial different systems and how military personnel use them. In the North Sea, near Zeebrugge, Belgian, German and Dutch forces conduct a boarding scenario of a suspicious vessel with a combination of rifles, loudspeakers, lasers and water guns to see how best to give enforcers an additional option to safely deescalate a potentially dangerous situation.
In a conflict situation, security personnel often don’t have an option between shout and shoot. Non-lethal weapons that can incapacitate, but not kill or inflict lasting damage can give that option. NATO is leading tests of a range of weapons systems, aimed to understand how best forces can use these to safely conduct operations.
SHOTLIST:
1. (00:00) AERIAL SHOT OF NATO WARSHIP IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA AS HELICOPTER CIRCLES
2. (00:05) PAN OF NATO WARSHIP IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
3. (00:14) WS OF NATO NAVAL PERSONNEL HAILING A MERCHANT VESSEL
4. (00:18) SHOT OF ACOUSTIC WARNING SYSTEM ON BELGIAN FRIGATE LEOPOLD I
5. (00:24) BELGIAN NAVAL PERSONNEL EXAMINING AND TRYING NON-LETHAL WEAPONS DURING EXERCISE AT SEA
6. (00:37) BISMUTH COATED NON-LETHAL PROJECTILE DESIGNED TO FRAGMENT ON IMPACT, REDUCING PENETRATION DAMAGE
7. (00:43) MAJOR PETER YOUNG, USMC, TESTS A SHOTGUN FIRING A NON-LETHAL PROJECTILE
8. (00:47) BELGIAN NAVAL PERSONNEL FIRES A NON-LETHAL WEAPON
9. (00:52) VARIOUS SHOTS OF GERMAN NAVAL BOARDING TEAM APPROACHING AND BOARDING A VESSEL DURING NON-LETHAL WEAPONS EXERCISE IN THE NORTH SEA
10. (01:15) GO PRO POV SHOT OF MANNEQUIN BEING FIRED ON BY BELGIAN NAVAL PERSONNEL BY NON-LETHAL PROJECTILE
11. (01:19) GO PRO POV SHOT OF BOARDED VESSEL CAPTAIN (IN SIMULATION) ATTACKING NATO BOARDING PERSONNEL
12. (01:25) GERMAN NAVAL BOARDING TEAM RESTRAINING VIOLENT CREW MEMBER
13. (01:29) GO PRO POV SHOT OF BELGIAN NAVAL BOARDING TEAM MEMBER MOVING MANNEQUIN BACK
14. (01:32) VAROUS SHOTS OF SIMULATION CROWD CONTROL OF BOW OF SHIP
15. (01:42) BELGIAN SPECIAL FORCES AND DUTCH MARINES MOVE ALONG THE BOARDED SHIP
16. (02:11) VARIOUS SHOTS OF SHIP’S CREW OF BOARDED VESSEL IN SIMULATION BEING SEARCHED AND CONTROLLED
17. (02:50) DUTCH MARINES USE WATER CANON ON MANNEQUIN
18. (02:57) SHOT OF 50 CAL GUN SILOHUETTED AT SUNSET
19. (03:05) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – Major Alexandre Papy, Belgian Army weapons systems integration manager.
“A non-lethal weapon is a weapon that is supposed to minimize the fatalities. To incapacitate people but with no killing and no permanent injuries.”
20. (03:14) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – Major Peter Young, United States Marine Corps, US Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate
We like to give our warfighters the opportunity to act somewhere between shouting and shooting. So we know there are situations that will arise where doing nothing is not a good option and also firing a round from a lethal weapon is not a good option as well.”
21. (03:28) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – Major Alexandre Papy, Belgian Army weapons systems integration manager.
“They feel pain. The goal is they feel pain and that they stop what they’re doing for the moment. Stop approaching, for example, or they surrender or that they understand that they are in forbidden zone.”
22. (03:41) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Lt Alex D, Boarding Team Leader, Leopold I
“The guys from my team said that they would quickly pull out their FN303 pistol, more quickly than they would pull out a lethal weapon.”
23. (03:56) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – Major Peter Young, United States Marine Corps, US Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate
“Anything we can do to provide the warfighter some other options to develop the situation and eventually deescalate, the better it is.”
23. (04:05) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Major Alexandre Papy, Belgian Army weapons systems integration manager.
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