Spiderman Weapon In The Works

Say you're in charge of security at an air base. Suddenly, you look up, and there are dozens of would-assailants are coming down, on parachutes and hang-gliders. What do you do?
Well, if you're one of the imaginative members of the Headquarters Air Force Security Forces Center, you whip out your non-lethal net-launcher -- and bag the baddies like Spiderman.
At least, that's what seems to be the vision behind the awfully-acronymed, "Counter Ultra Light Aircraft/Paratrooper System," or CULAPS. According to a military request for proposals discovered by Stephen Trimble, the gizmo is "envisaged as a lightweight net aimed and fired from the ground that envelopes the target and thereby removes the target's lift bringing it to the ground."
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/air-force-seeks.html

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