Seventh place: XM-25
The "punisher" who beats cattle across the mountain
The official name of XM-25 is "XM-25 individual air-blown weapon" or "anti-bunker target combat system", nicknamed "punisher", which can destroy targets hidden in bunkers, trenches or underground fortifications and achieve the horrible effect of "shooting cattle from the other mountain". XM-25 can launch grenades, high-explosive bombs and blank ammunition. Its fire control system is extremely lethal. Even if it can't fly to the top of the target, the controllable shrapnel will fly to the target according to the preset trajectory.
In August 2009, the US military successfully tested the XM-25 smart rifle Grenade at Aberdeen Experimental Center in Maryland. When talking about the revolutionary significance of XM-25, the project leader said: "This is as important as the machine gun being put into actual combat for the first time." According to the US military, XM-25' s precise target positioning function makes it safer than mortars or raids, and the death rate and injury rate of soldiers can be greatly reduced. The Pentagon has planned to purchase a large number of XM-25s at a price of $25,000 to $30,000 each, and ensure that every infantry unit or special forces combat team is equipped with one. It is said that by the end of this year, the US military will be fully equipped with this intelligent infantry weapons.
Sixth place: rail gun
The warship became a super-long machine gun.
Rail gun, also known as magnetic rail gun, is an advanced kinetic energy killing weapon that uses electromagnetic technology to launch non-explosive projectiles. Theoretically, the projectile launched by the rail gun can fly at supersonic speed, which is a sharp weapon to intercept missiles. In the early 1980s, the U.S. Navy included the railgun in its future weapon development plan, and subsequently, the U.S. Army took it as a candidate technical scheme for the main weapon of army combat vehicles after 2020.
According to the US Navy's vision, destroyers equipped with railguns will become super-long machine guns, which can launch 1 2 cheap shells within1minute. 2065438+In July 2004, the US Naval Research Bureau installed two sets of prototype railguns on the joint high-speed ship "Miglino Kit". So far, the gun has been successfully tested and launched many times under laboratory conditions. It is predicted that by 20 16, the prototype of the rail gun will be deployed at sea for the first time, which marks an important step forward for the US Navy's combat weapons.
Fifth place: "terrorist"
Silence brings the fear of death.
St George, an American weapon development expert and founder of Leader Thrust System Thrust Company, applied for a patent of "launching weapons with centrifugal thrust" in 2003. In fact, this is a disc-shaped "musket", and its projectiles are fired by centrifugal force generated after high-speed rotation rather than gunpowder. This weapon system called "terror" stores steel balls in rows of annular gun bores. After pulling the trigger, these gun bores rotate strongly, reaching a very high speed, and then shoot steel balls. It is said that "terrorists" can shoot1.20 thousand steel ball bullets every minute, and the initial velocity of the projectile can reach 300 meters per second, just like a pistol.
Because no gunpowder is used, this "gun" has no sound, no heat and no recoil when shooting. Therefore, American Science Humor magazine called it "a killing weapon that can quickly harvest life in silence", and its powerful "stealth" firepower aroused the strong interest of some defense experts. It is said that the US military also included it in the weapons development plan, but the specific timetable is unknown to the outside world.
Fourth place: Excalibur
Clever as a dragonfly, evil as Satan.
In 2009, Aurora Flight Science Company of the United States launched a prototype of "Excalibur" vertical take-off and landing high-speed UAV according to military requirements. The aircraft adopts hybrid power of vortex and electricity, which can not only take off and land vertically like a helicopter, but also fly at high speed in the air like a traditional fixed-wing aircraft, with a speed of 805 km/h. The Excalibur has both dexterous maneuverability like a dragonfly and terrifying firepower like Satan. According to the data, this new drone has a maximum payload of 545 kg (short takeoff mode is required at this time) and can mount a variety of weapons. Four Hellfire missiles will be its standard configuration. GBU-40 high-precision ammunition with low price, light weight, high power and high precision will also become one of the first choice ammunition for Excalibur UAV.
At present, the "Excalibur" UAV has just entered the preliminary testing stage of the prototype, and it is expected to be put into actual deployment in the next 5~ 10 years. The US media said that this weapon system, which represents the development trend of the next generation of unmanned aerial vehicles, will bring revolutionary impacts to special operational battlefields such as mountains, cities and jungles, and combat troops in complex operational environments will be even more powerful.
Third: high-energy liquid system
Will soon be put into actual deployment.
In the near future, the scene of laser killing in the movie Star Wars will no longer be a dream, and the high-energy liquid laser regional defense system being developed by the US Department of Defense will make science fiction come true. Different from the traditional laser weapon that needs a cooling time after launch, the high-energy liquid laser regional defense system can be launched continuously like a machine gun, which has higher operational efficiency in combat and can deal with various threats from the air or the ground. What's more commendable is that compared with the current high-power laser weapons, the high-energy liquid laser regional defense system, including the cooling system, weighs only 750 kilograms and occupies 2 cubic meters of space, which is equivalent to the size of a large refrigerator. It can be installed under the wing of a fighter plane to destroy ground-to-air and air-to-air missiles, or incoming rockets, mortars, grenades, etc.
It is said that the design team cooperated with General Atomics to build a prototype that can generate 1 kW beam, and called it "the underworld". Sources confirmed that the more powerful "underworld" has been tested many times in the past six years. It is believed that in another five years, the high-energy liquid laser regional defense system will be put into actual deployment. At that time, the smoke and rumbling guns in the traditional battlefield are likely to be replaced by laser beams that come and go.
Second place: "Quantum Invisibility Cloak"
Let the soldiers hide their whereabouts
The "quantum invisibility cloak" is made of quantum invisibility material, which realizes invisibility by reflecting light waves around the wearer. According to the Canadian company that invented this technology, the official name of "quantum invisibility cloak" is "quantum invisible camouflage fabric". Soldiers can bend the surrounding light after wearing it, thus avoiding the search by naked eyes or even night vision goggles. For confidentiality reasons, the Canadian company refused to show the actual sample application effect of the quantum invisibility cloak to the media, and only released a few simulation renderings in its official website. However, the company claims that the US and Canadian military have inspected the product and witnessed its invisibility. "It is very light and cheap, and the US and Canadian military have confirmed that it can escape the monitoring of infrared survey and thermal imaging technology," said the person in charge of the company.
It is said that the development of the "quantum invisibility cloak" has been strongly sponsored by the US military. The Pentagon hopes to use it one day to build an invisible "invisible force" that can kill the enemy. However, some scientists pointed out that the "quantum invisibility cloak" can not absolutely hide its whereabouts. Infrared detection, microwave detection and laser detection will expose the true face of the wearer, so there is no need to worry about wearing it by terrorists.
No. 1: Semimechanical Insect
Miniature scouts on the battlefield
It is reported that the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense has launched an "insect -MEMS integration" program, trying to implant micro-electromechanical devices in insects, and through this device, control this semi-mechanical insect to perform too dangerous reconnaissance tasks that ordinary soldiers cannot complete. It is reported that the key to the success of the "semi-mechanical insect" project is that electronic components must be implanted in the early stage of insect growth, so that the living tissues around it have time to adapt and continue to grow, and finally the electronic components will be completely wrapped and implanted in the body.