Incident weapon

A Whiskey-class submarine similar to the one whose grounding encouraged development of Swedish incident weapons.

An incident weapon is typically an anti-vehicle device intended to inflict disabling damage or prevent escape without killing the vehicle operators. Incident weapons were used by military personnel during the Cold War to discourage clandestine use of submarines within territorial waters without causing casualties which might escalate into warfare.[1]

  1. ^ Ellis, M.G.M.W. (1986). "Sweden's Ghosts?". Proceedings. 112 (3). United States Naval Institute: 95–101.