A weapon having a barrel or launch tube for a projectile or shell preloaded therein together with a propellant charge. The device includes a dual mode converter and a control unit. A photodetector is arranged to generate at least one electronic signal proportional to the collected portion of depolarized backscattered photons. The composition may be used as a green cleaning and disinfecting composition with performance comparable or superior to conventional cleaning and disinfecting products with less desirable ecological profiles. The pipe handling system, while increasing the length of handled tubulars, reduces the number of joints for making of a drill string, thereby significantly reducing the cost of pipe handling operations.