| Blowguns are currently used by many military forces all over the world. Although the technology blowguns use is over 40,000 yeas old, today's modern military forces have found many practical uses for them. The overwhelming use is in diversionary tactics similar to those used by the Ninja of early Japan. Another use is to activate switches from a distance which, by any other means, would be destroyed and create unwanted attention. The need to quietly take out a sentry has created many modified versions of the blowgun which are extremely powerful. Some military versions are capable of delivering a dart over 2,000 feet at a velocity nearly 1,000 feet per second with pin point accuracy. |
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