Jul 20, 2009 0
future war
Terrible it might be, but with advances years ahead of other ‘industries’, war is the crucible of technology. Look at the future of warfare, from robot drones to battlefield lasers to non-lethal weaponry.
- Firescout MQ8B
Unmanned heli, first vertical take-off UAV to fire a missile with success
- Com-bat
A six-inch robot spy plane modelled on a bat. Gather data from sights, sounds and smells!
- NLOS Cannon
Non Line Of Sight (NLOS) cannon fire Excalibur shells that steer in the same way as guided missiles.
- HULC (Human Universal Load Carrier)
Lockheed Martin’s HULC is an exoskeleton – mechanical external skeleton carry loads up to 200lb and speeds os up to 10mph.
But before getting too carried away with talk of ray guns, robot armies and ‘virtual’ war, let’s name some weapons that changes the face of modern warfare:
- Machine gun – notably the ‘Maxim gun’
- Chemical warfare – used in WWI (mustard gas, phosgene & chlorine)
- Tank – first used in WWI (1916)
- Atomic bomb – WWII (Hiroshima; killed 140k ppl & Nagasaki; killed 80k ppl)
Even Discovery has a dedicated programme on future weapons:
Discovery Channel – Future Weapons
Zone 1
Zone 2
Weapons that changed the world
A note to future soldiers, polices, criminals & terrorist:
‘The US military predicts by 2030, knowledge will be delivered direct to the brain in seconds, increasing the destructive capability of individuals’
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