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Projectile systems are provided herein employing an inhibiting and/or marking substance for impairing/marking a living target, such as a human or animal target, which projectile systems are optimized to provide maximum effectiveness by impacting the target with sufficient force to cause the target t

Projectile systems are provided herein employing an inhibiting and/or marking substance for impairing/marking a living target, such as a human or animal target, which projectile systems are optimized to provide maximum effectiveness by impacting the target with sufficient force to cause the target to move into a simultaneously radially dispersing inhibiting/marking substance contained within a capsule of the projectile system. In preferred embodiments, the projectile system includes a generally spherical capsule that is optimally filled to greater than about 50%, more preferably about 75% to 99% of its total volume, most preferably to about 90% of capacity, with the substance to be delivered to the target. The capsule is preferably formed as two about equal halves. Each half is then filled to about 90% of its capacity with the substance, which is compressed mechanically or a thin membrane, preferably a paper foil, is placed over the substance or the substance is mechanically compressed within each half to retain the same within the half capsule. The two half capsules are then brought together, for example, by snapping them together, and are then sealed to one another. In an alternative embodiment, the sealed capsule employs a plurality of dimples or a matrix of global scoring in an exterior or interior surface of the capsule of the projectile system to facilitate rupture of the capsule upon impact with a living target. The projectile systems described herein are easily and inexpensively manufactured; are readily incorporated into existing armed officer training programs; and are extremely effective at stopping, slowing and/or marking a living target.

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1. A system comprising: a frangible projectile to be impacted with a target; the frangible projectile comprising a rigid frangible shell having a thickness and a volume formed within, wherein the rigid frangible shell ruptures upon impact with the target; and an inhibiting substance contained with

1. A system comprising: a frangible projectile to be impacted with a target; the frangible projectile comprising a rigid frangible shell having a thickness and a volume formed within, wherein the rigid frangible shell ruptures upon impact with the target; and an inhibiting substance contained within the volume and occupying at least about 50% of the volume; wherein the inhibiting substance comprising a powdered inhibiting substance, wherein upon impact with the target the rigid frangible shell ruptures radially dispersing the powdered inhibiting substance proximate to the target into a cloud; and wherein the inhibiting substance comprises powdered oleoresin capsicum.