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“How does it work?” Joe asked

“Superconducting h- potency battery pack Pull the trigger and they accelerate the projectiles to a thousand feet per second in the blink of an eye”

Joe nodded approvingly

“Why are there two triggers?” Kurt asked

“Since they are already equipped with a substantial power source, soe Taser to the bottoer fires it You can hit someone accurately up to fifty feet or siive a half pull to zap them manually”

“So we don’t have to kill everything we see,” Joe mentioned

The sergeant nodded

A red light went on at the far end of the aircraft and they could feel the plane begin a rather steep descent

“We’re approaching the drop zone,” the sergeant said “Any questions?”

Joe raised a hand “You said ‘drop zone,’ but we don’t seem to have parachutes”

“You won’t need the out in the Hummer”

“Does it fly?”

“Nope But it can be put on a pallet and tossed out the back from an altitude of no more than twenty feet”

Joe turned to Kurt “You said we’d be using parachutes”

“LAPES,” Kurt said “Low altitude parachute extraction systeht there in the acronym”