What do you think flashbangs are?Could non-lethal weapons be used to confuse and weaken a target to make it easier to kill with a conventional weapon? I am thinking specifically of LED incapacitators and LRAD weapons.
What do you think flashbangs are?
Well yeah.....is their an alternate history question involved in this?
Well, tear gas comes to my mind. You can certainly use it to disable unprotected enemy combatants before killing them. I think it's use in warfare is forbidden, though, as if it was a chemical weapon. In any case, it's of little use against a protected enemy.
LRAD and LEDs won't work if the truck carrying them is blown up.
Non-lethal tear gas was used extensively in Vietnam to flush out combattants for conventional weapons to kill.