"The results of a market investigation conducted to identify existing non-lethal technologies capable of being integrated into a 66 mm grenade for use with the Light Vehicle Obscuration Smoke System (LVOSS)" -- Introduction.

Sponsoring agency : Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), Fort Belvoir, Va. Contract number : SPO900-94-D-0002.

Introduction : CBIAC -- Purpose of critical review -- Background : Non-lethal weapons program -- Operational needs and recent use -- Apporoach : Flash-bang grenades -- Visual distraction -- Audio distraction -- Available flash-bang grenades -- Impact distraction : Available "impact" grenades -- Lethality : Light thresholds -- Sound thresholds -- Projectile parameters affecting blunt impact -- Prior blunt impact studies -- Ministry of Defence, procurement executive, chemical defence establishment, U.K. models -- General Motors research center viscous model -- The Swedish Research Institute of Defense model -- Edgewood Arsenal Biomedical Laboratory model -- Some comparisons -- Comparisons with commercial non-lethal grenades -- Conclusions -- References.