Chilli grenade Non/less-lethal weapon used for incapacitation and crowd control purposes
A chilli grenade is a type of non-lethal weapon developed by Indian military scientists.
Design
Being similar to tear gas ,[ 1] chilli pepper cultivars, bhut jolokia , in weaponised form.[ 2]
Chilli grenades emit a powerful skin and eye irritant as well as pungent smell that causes the afflicted to leave their cover or become physically incapacitated by the grenade's load.[ 3]
The thumb-sized bhut jolokia (or ghost chilli) had previously been recognised by Guinness World Records hottest pepper in the world with more than 1,000,000 Scoville units , but has since been superseded by three other pepper cultivars, the Trinidad moruga scorpion (1,463,700 SHU),[ 4] [ 5] Carolina Reaper (1,641,183 SHU)[ 6] Pepper X (2,693,000 SHU).[ 7]
