1. Laser weapons

2015-01-30Report: The U.S. Navy equipped the USS Ponce with a 30-kilowatt laser cannon in the summer of 2015 and deployed it in the Persian Gulf in the fall. After months of operation in the Persian Gulf, senior Navy officers say the laser cannons have exceeded expectations in terms of range and durability. The Navy refers to this laser cannon simply as LWS (laserweaponsystem = laser weapon system). The development of laser cannons has been going on for several years, starting with the destruction of several small ships in 2011 when the U.S. military fired laser weapons from a destroyer during a laser weapons test. In 2012, laser weapons shot down several aircraft. The laser cannon can adjust the intensity of the fire, and at present, the research department of the Navy has begun to plan the development of laser weapons of greater power (100 kW - 150 kW).

Let's take a look at the murderous weapons in the arsenals of various countries:

2. Particle beam weapons

It uses accelerators to accelerate elementary particles such as protons and neutrons to a high speed of tens of thousands to 200,000 km/s, and emits them through electrodes or magnetic beams to form very fine particle beams for bombardment targets. This is mainly composed of high-energy power sources, particle generating devices, accelerators, and electromagnetic lenses. According to whether the particles are charged or not, they can be divided into charged particle beam weapons and neutral particle beam weapons. It has the characteristics of being fast, high-energy, flexible, clean and all-weather, and can hit targets in a very short time, and is suitable for dealing with intercontinental ballistic missiles that adjust their flight at long distances.

3. Meteorological weapons

The so-called "meteorological weapons" refer to a series of weapons that use modern scientific and technological means to artificially create natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, torrential rains, flash floods, avalanches, hot temperatures, and aerosols, and to transform the battlefield environment in order to achieve military objectives. With the rapid development of science and meteorological science, the "geophysical environment" weapon technology that uses man-made natural disasters has been greatly improved, and it is bound to play a tremendous role in future wars.

Solar weapons

Solar weapons are weapons that use sunlight to destroy the enemy. In fact, the use of sunlight as a weapon has been used for a long time. In 1994, a Russian satellite placed a lens in orbit, and the reflected light of the lens grazed the earth at night, which shows that the current technology has been able to concentrate the specular reflected light at an altitude of 40,000 meters. It has been calculated that the temperature of the center of the focused heat source can reach thousands of degrees and can destroy everything on Earth. It is also quite possible that such weapons will appear in the wars of the new century.

Thermobaric bombs

The thermobaric bomb was developed by the US Department of Defense Threat Reduction Agency in October 2002 by experts from the Navy, Air Force, Department of Energy, and industry in a two-month surprise attack, and was successfully applied to the battlefield in Afghanistan. When the thermobaric bomb explodes, it can produce continuous high temperature and high pressure, and consume a large amount of oxygen in the air around the target, which is effective in hitting targets in caves and tunnels. In addition to using thermobaric bombs against targets in confined spaces, such as caves, tunnels and bunkers, the U.S. Marine Corps plans to use portable thermobaric bombs to strike urban facilities, including buildings and ditches.

Cold-controlled weapons

The U.S. military once tested detonating a methane or carbon dioxide artillery shell at an altitude of 17 kilometers above the ground, and the fragments of the shell after the explosion obscured the sun, and the weather suddenly became extremely cold, which was enough to freeze the enemy in the tropical jungle to death.

High-temperature weapons

By firing laser shells, the desert is warmed up and the air rises, creating an artificial whirlwind that makes the enemy tank unable to drive in the sandstorm and ultimately defeats itself without a fight; Its steel shells contain flammable and explosive chemical fuels, and use polymer granular powder to improve the power and safety of weapon systems. When an explosion occurs, it will produce a comprehensive killing and destructive effect such as overpressure and high temperature. This kind of artillery shell can be projected by fighter planes, helicopters, rocket artillery, large-caliber body guns, and short-range missiles to strike at campaign and tactical targets, and can also be projected by medium- and long-range ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and long-range combat aircraft to strike at strategic targets.

Thermobaric aerosol weapons

At the end of 2009, the British army was developing a precision strike weapon that could use heatwaves, pressure and aerosols to strike targets. This weapon uses advanced principles of oil and gas explosives. This weapon ignites immediately after impact, creating a large cloud of dense fog explosions, destroying targets in buildings through hot mist and pressure, and can kill enemies in a wide area, and enemies in the target area will soon be crushed to death by pressure and suffocation.

Cloud cannonballs

This type of shell is also called "fuel-air explosive shell". Liquids such as ethylene oxide and propylene oxide are usually used, which are loaded into artillery shells and launched over the target by rocket artillery or mortars. The first generation of cloud cannonballs belonged to the sub-mother type, that is, three sub-shells were installed in the mother shell. Each sub-shell is filled with tens of kilograms of fuel-air explosives and is equipped with a fuse, detonator and extension probe sensor, among other things. When the mother shell is fired over the target, after 1-10 seconds, the fuse detonates the mother shell, releases the sub-shell with a drag umbrella, and slowly approaches the target, under the action of the probe sensor, the sub-shell detonates for the first time at a predetermined height above the target, mixes the liquid explosive, forms a cloud with a diameter of about 15 meters and a height of about 2.4 meters, covers the ground nearby, and after 0.1 seconds, the sub-shell detonates for the second time, so that the cloud and fog have a large explosion. The cloud artillery shell has been developed to the third generation, and its performance has been greatly improved, and the range of use is also more extensive.

Artificial anti-cloud and anti-fog weapons

Artificial cloud elimination and fog elimination refers to the use of heating, cooling, opening and spreading catalysts to eliminate dense fog in combat airspace, so as to enhance and improve the visibility in the air and ensure the safety of combat operations such as visual observation by the parties, aircraft take-off, landing, and ship navigation. In World War II, the British army used a heated anti-fog device called "Phaedo" to successfully ensure the safe landing of 2,500 aircraft in heavy fog. In 1968, in order to ensure the safe landing of Air Force aircraft, the US military used artificial fogging weapons.

Manually controlled lightning

Artificial control of lightning refers to the neutralization, transfer or early release of electric charges in the cloud through the method of artificial lightning guidance and lightning elimination, so as to control the generation of lightning and ensure the safety of military operations in the air and on the ground. The methods of artificial control of lightning include: using the freezing core to sow a charged cloud to change the dynamics and microphysical processes of the cloud to affect the lightning discharge; Metal foil is used to increase the conductivity in the cloud, so that the electric field in the cloud is maintained below the critical strength required for lightning to suppress lightning. Human-triggered lightning discharge, causing a small area of the cloud to be discharged within a limited time.

Chemical rain

Chemical rain weapons are a new type of weapon that evolved from earlier meteorological weapons, and their combat effectiveness in naval warfare is particularly obvious. It is mainly composed of chemicals such as silver iodide, dry ice, table salt, etc., which can cause water droplets in clouds and cause continuous rainfall, and chemicals that can cause casualties or accelerate the aging of weapons and equipment. The weapon is divided into two main categories, one is permanent and the other is temporary. Permanent chemical rain weapons are mainly carried by stealth aircraft or other unmanned aerial vehicles, which are secretly scattered over enemy countries, accelerating the corrosion of enemy weapons and thus losing their combat capability. The temporary chemical rain weapon is mainly to make the enemy troops lose the ability to resist instantly, and it is composed of highly corrosive, highly toxic, and highly acidic substances.

Tsunami storms

When it comes to the tsunami, people are all terrified and terrified. In nature, tsunamis are caused by storms and earthquakes. According to relevant materials, the nuclear test conducted by the United States on Bikini Island in the summer of 1965 aroused the keen interest of military scientists in developing tsunami weapons. In that nuclear explosion, a 60-meter-high wave suddenly broke off in the sea 500 meters from the center of the explosion, and the wave remained above 15 meters after 1,500 meters from the center of the explosion. This test shows that future tsunami weapons will be invaluable if used in naval warfare.

billow

Wind and waves are an important factor that should not be underestimated as far as warships and sea installations and landing operations are concerned, and huge winds and waves often lead to the destruction of ships and the destruction of military installations. Therefore, the use of wind and waves and the internal convergence of the ocean can cause ocean subcurrents to occur on the surface and deep layers of the ocean, thereby causing the capsizing of enemy naval vessels, underwater submarines and other military installations and the death of personnel. Military scientists believe that the Great Wave weapon can also be used to blockade the coast and achieve the purpose of deterring enemy warships from attacking at sea. However, so far, the method of actually causing the Great Wave has not been developed, and only a few small waves have been triggered, which can be regarded as a precursor to the successful use of the Great Wave weapon.

USS Zumwalt, a guided missile destroyer

The American science fiction destroyer DDG-1000 was officially delivered to the US Navy, and the US military held a large celebration ceremony for this. The DDG-1000 is a super warship with a large number of new designs, with powerful firepower, outstanding stealth capabilities, and a scary high cost, which costs $7 billion after including research and development costs. The DDG-1000 will be equipped with an electromagnetic gun system in the future, with a total length of 183 meters, a total width of 24.6 meters, a draft of 8.4 meters, and a full load displacement of 14,500 tons. The DDG-1000 is larger than the Burke class, but the number of crew members required is almost halved, and only 150 people are needed to do the work of 300 people.

The Zumwalt-class destroyer is a representative of the main surface ships of the new generation of the United States. From hull design, motor power, command and tube communication, network communication, detection and navigation, electromagnetic guns and laser cannons of weapon systems, all of them are the crystallization of cutting-edge technology that surpasses contemporary and newly developed technologies. Once again, the US Navy has demonstrated its forward-looking thinking. The order for this type of sci-fi warship was cut from 16 to 3, and finally built into one, costing more than $4 billion.

The Zumwalt-class destroyer is the result of new research and development of cutting-edge technology beyond the contemporary era in terms of hull design, motor power, command and control, network communication, detection and navigation, electromagnetic guns and laser cannons of weapon systems. This type of sci-fi battleship embodies the forward-looking vision of thought.

4. Genetic weapons

Genetic weapons, which use the new technology of advanced genetic engineering and methods similar to engineering design, according to people's needs, through genetic recombination, into some pathogenic bacteria or viruses that can resist ordinary vaccines or drugs, or in some microorganisms that would not otherwise cause disease, to create biological weapons, especially the development of synthetic biology, can realize the artificial design and synthesis of organisms or viruses that do not exist in nature. It can change the genetic material of non-pathogenic microorganisms to produce pathogenic bacteria with significant drug resistance, and use the differences in biochemical characteristics of human races to make this pathogenic bacteria only have a pathogenic effect on people with specific genetic characteristics, so as to selectively destroy the enemy's living forces. For example, a genetic weapon can only kill people with reddish-brown hair, or it can kill only people with short or tall people with blue or black eyes.

The power of genetic weapons is manifested in the following aspects: 1. It has the ability to accurately distinguish between friend and foe, and only attacks specific enemy races. 2. It is difficult to prevent and control, resistant to drugs, and contagious. Secretly cast, difficult to detect; If it is detected, it is difficult to decipher its genetic code and treat it effectively. It is only contagious in the same species as the person being attacked. 3. High lethality, low cost, the use of genetic engineering technology can be mass production. 4. It has a strong psychological deterrent effect on the enemy.

5. Particle beam weapons

Zombie gun that makes you a zombie man in an instant. Since the zombie gun is a fairly cutting-edge weapon, there is limited information about how it works. According to some information that has been made public, it is necessary to use a supercomputer to analyze thousands of brainwave samples in the database before making such a weapon, so as to obtain a correspondence between the psychological characteristics and the shape of the brainwaves. Next, the developers store these "emotional strings" on another computer and use radio to emit these "living signals" to the human body. At this point, the weapon comes into play, it can "silently change the emotional state of the human being", and in turn, manipulate the psychology and emotions of the target object in order to influence its actions.

6. Brainwave weapons

In fact, the Human Brain Project has a "long history" in the research of mental electronic weapons. As early as the 90s of the last century, the United States secretly began to study the idea of remote control of people, and achieved surprising results. The US Department of Defense once disturbed the mental state of Iraqi soldiers by emitting ultra-high frequency radio waves, and eventually caused thousands of Iraqi soldiers to surrender without a fight. VR, brainwave music, double brainwave music have entered our daily life today!

Dear book friends, we will wait and see what happens in the future. Let me conclude the book with one sentence:

"The Word, Judah is also good; Gasification is popular, endless, is the way to say. ”