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Future Weapons of War in the Works

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the avril-and-leviathan dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Who needs explosive missiles when you can just launch a 3 foot long chunk of metal at near Mach 7 speeds and get the same result? Popular Science looks at weapons the military is developing for future wars including electromagnetic railguns, space darts, superfast torpedos, laser cannons, and a gun that fires a million rounds per minute."

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  1. As I've always said by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Military technology is striving to be one big Quake clone I mean, we already have aimbots, now there are railguns....next thing you know the US Army will be wallhacking.

    1. Re:As I've always said by bluelan · · Score: 4, Funny
      They already are wall hacking, as reported on slashdot in '99.


      Real life wall hacking


      Now here's the moral delimna. If we can do it in real life, is it cheating?

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  2. Re:US Army by nacturation · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft's Digital Rifle Management?

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  3. meanwhile, Bin Ladin by PsiPsiStar · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're developing space based weapons. But watch out. Bin Ladin is developing Ewoks.

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  4. Space darts by BabyDave · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... space darts, ...

    Research is now beginning into surface-to-air Tiddlywinks, and atomic Shove Ha'penny.

    In other news, British scientists have abandoned their work on railguns after they found that the projectiles continually arrived an hour late. This was blamed on the "wrong sort of magnetism".

  5. Re:1x10^6 rounds per minute - inaccurate stats. by carvalhao · · Score: 5, Funny

    No to mention that, if Newton got his apples right, you'd have an incredible thrust is the oposite direction. Now, the A10, which boasts a considerable firing rate off it's cannon already slows down a bit when firing... I can envision some aircraft going backwards with this one! ;)

  6. Re:US Army by wattersa · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It looks like you are trying to fire your weapon. Would you like to:
    - Learn more about ballistics
    - See a maintenance diagram
    - Find help on the internet
    - Run the Rifle Setup Wizard?"

    [troop inserts loaded magazine]
    "Windows has detected new hardware, would you like to look for a driver on the internet now?"

    [it jams]
    "An unrecoverable error has occurred in RIFL4512.dll.
    (A)bort, (R)etry, (C)ontinue?"

    Yeah, I think I'll pass on this DRM also!