USSF to get 'Plasma Blades'
 

Doubt we'll see these on teams anytime soon, but good to know they could be working their way to the FOBs...

US special forces tool up with 'plasma blades'
Energy cutlasses cleave flesh with '66% less effort'
Lewis Page
15 October 2009

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America's top-secret elite commando forces have been field-testing a "plasma knife" - a handheld unit which generates a cutting "blade" of glowing ions.

Disappointingly for any wouldbe kimono-clad combat mystics out there, the handheld energy cutlass isn't intended for hand to hand combat and can't be used for parrying directed-energy-weapons fire. Rather, it's a surgical tool - intended to let combat medics cut into stricken buddies without worrying about bleeding, as the plasma blade seals off blood vessels as it slices through flesh.

FULL STORY HERE:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10...plasma_blades/

You guys are the Jedi! I knew it.

1st thing ya no,, a couple of em move into da neighborhood..

Then one of em comes over on Saturday morning and say he'll help ya trim the bushes..

Next thing ya no they go n razor cut your kids hair,, fur free...

And before long one of em wants to marry your daughter...

Be careful young Jedi.... :D:D:D:D