MOSCOW. Aug 26 (Interfax-AVN) - Director General of the State-owned Bazalt research and production enterprise Vladimir Korenkov thinks that the so-called non-lethal weapons are prevented from being put into operation in Russia due to the inadequacy of laws.
"In my opinion, the wide introduction of the so-called non- lethal weapons is prevented by the absence of legal footing for their employment by forces of the Interior Ministry and other law- enforcement agencies," he told the news conference held Thursday at Interfax-Military News Agency headquarters.
He added that the Interpolitex-2004 and IDELF-2004 would not demonstrate samples of non-lethal weapons.
"The matter is that these products are still classified," Korenkov said.
He emphasized that the weapons' employment in combat is being considered now. "We might have avoided unnecessary victims if such weapons had been utilized in ethnic conflicts. We are preparing a legal base for this type of weapons to be employed in combat," he said.
Among the non-lethal weapons are the strike and shock, tear- provoking, light, acoustic and simulating assets and ammunitions.
Only Russia and the U.S. manufacture non-lethal weapons at the present time.