Editing Containment Foam (section)

=== Foam Sprayers ===
PRT officers are often equipped with tinker-made containment foam applicators resembling flamethrowers, with tanks mounted on their back.<ref name=":2" /> Each tank contains about three gallons of foam.<ref name=":0" /> They're held on with large backpack-like straps.<ref>I was flat on my back and couldn't back away fast enough to escape, especially with my having to slip my arms from the straps that held the tank of containment foam to my back. - [[Tangle 6.6]]</ref> The hose leading from the containment foam tank is tough, but can be cut with a knife.<ref name="PRT33">[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/16189809 PRT Quest threat iii p33]</ref><ref name=":0" />

They use an electrical charge to prevent the foam sticking to the nozzle,<ref>https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/tangle-6-5/#comment-593</ref> which makes them vulnerable to an EMP.<ref>There was a muffled ‘whump' sound, and I felt something like a wave of intensely hot air that made every hair on my arms, legs and the back of my neck stand on end.  I realized the trigger of the containment foam sprayer was depressed and nothing was coming out of the end of the weapon.  I tried again.  Nothing.<br><br>That would be an electromagnetic pulse screwing up the machinery. - [[Tangle 6.5]]</ref> The PRT needed [[Dragon]] to maintain them.<ref>"And if you leave, the assumption is that we'll be left without Dragon's ability to maintain every system and device she's created for us.  The PRT without a Birdcage, without our computer systems or database, without the specialized grenade loadouts or the containment foam dispensers." - [[Interlude 20.x]]</ref>

As of 2001, the nozzle had a display showing foam remaining, and settings for spray volume and distribution.<ref>She buckled it on and then gripped the hose-sprayer.  The display on the nozzle would be showing her the amount of foam remaining, as well as the settings for spray volume and distribution. - [[Interlude 16.x]]</ref>

Some foam sprayers had some kind of handprint recognition to prevent them being stolen,<ref>"Hey!" A girl shouted.  I looked and saw a horned girl crouched by one of the fallen PRT officers, holding the foam sprayer.  Imp.  Right, it was Imp.  She looked at Tattletale, "It won't fire!"<br><br>Tattletale hurried over, grabbed the fallen officer's arm, and lifted it over to the handle of the gun.  She put his finger on the trigger and aimed the gun at Clockblocker, unloading spray on top of his upper body just as he managed to heave the fallen officer off of himself. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/05/01 Excerpt] from [[Parasite 10.3]]</ref> likely the same system installed on the PRT's grenade launchers, which required special PRT-issue gloves to activate.<ref>[[Cell 22.5]]</ref>