Experimental Beam Weapons

[GeneralZ 0]

Weapons the army is developing/using:

 

Zeus, a Laser Humvee

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001437.html

 

Microwave Weapon under development:

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001565.html

[Luk3us 63]

That thing looks weird.

[GeneralZ 0]

almost all new weapons look weird. dont complain

[Guest recoton007]

That thing looks weird.

 

YOU THINK THATS WEIRD?!?!?

 

LOOK AT THIS

 

 

INTRODUCING THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE'S

 

PHALANX CLOSE-IN WEAPON SYSTEM (CIWS)

 

(ITS A BIG GUN)

[GeneralZ 0]

That’s old news Jahn

Stuff’s at least a year old

 

Its Vulcan gun attached to the radar tracker used in patriot missile batteries.

Its supposed to shoot down enemy missiles.

 

Plz post new experimental weapons

[Mina Synd 0]

hehe you gotta love the US tech guys...

inventive enough to come up with pure brilliance in warfare.

and gullible enough to fund it cos it's got a cool name...

within 20 years the military technology is going to be past star wars hehe but you gotta admit some of the ideas they fund are pure humour targets (bat bombs... dolphins... you name it) but hey, gotta fail to learn right?

What's the project details on the semi-bio suit armour? from what i've heard it's like The Wrong Trousers from Wallace & Gromit (all those not inclined in the ways of W&G, trousers being a pair of mechanical legs which can inhance speed and strength of the wearer)

[GeneralZ 0]

For some explaining on bat bombs:

 

Bat Bombs Away!

Now I know why they call 'em the Greatest Generation. What other group would have the moxie to turn bats into trained bomb-droppers?

The idea behind World War II's Project X-Ray "was that a bomb-like canister filled with bats would be dropped from high altitude over the target area," says Murdoc Online. "The bats would be in a sort of hibernation, but as the bomb fell (slowed by a parachute) they would warm up and awaken."

 

 

At the appropriate altitude, the bomb would open and over one thousand bats, each carrying a tiny time-delay napalm incendiary device, would flutter away and roost in various nooks and crannies, many of them in extremely flammable wooden Japanese buildings.

 

The napalm devices would go off more or less simultaneously, and thousands of little fires would start at the same time. Many of them would grow into large fires, and the ability of the Japanese firefighters to contain them would quickly be overwhelmed...

 

Seems to me, as outrageous as it sounds, that it could have worked... In fact, one afternoon while demonstrating the napalm devices, several bats woke too early in the lab, flew off, and ended up burning down the brand-new but uninhabited Carlsbad Auxiliary Army Air Base in New Mexico. Really.

 

 

Of course, this is the era of warrior-thinkers that came up will all sorts of so-crazy-it-might -just-work schemes -- items like paper bombs, plague-filled subs, and aircraft carriers made of ice.

 

The October 1990 edition of Air Force magazine has a hilariously detailed rundown of the whole bat bomb episode. And Defense Tech Dad Tom Shachtman covers all sorts of WWII-era military research follies in his book Laboratory Warriors: How Allied Science and Technology Tipped the Balance in World War II.

 

THERE'S MORE: "Our intelligent designer has never created an animal that we couldn't improve by strapping a bomb to it," snarks Joel.

[Mina Synd 0]

nice copy paste ^.~

i remember seeing this in a documentory once hehe...

did you hear about the russian attempt with dogs? they trained them to run and cower under tanks with bombs attached. BOOM... however when they tried to use them in combat, they all ran and hid under all the russian tanks cos those were they type they'd been trained with XD

you can actually do that in RA2 ^^; (attack dog... crazy ivan. it's evil but if you're really bored or don't like dogs much oO; )

[Saracen 16]

For some explaining on bat bombs:

 

Bat Bombs Away!

Now I know why they call 'em the Greatest Generation. What other group would have the moxie to turn bats into trained bomb-droppers?

 

If this sets off luk3us' excuse for his seagulls again and provides a pic I will fall off my chair in laughter :roll:

[Cygnus X-1 12]

 

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...6lr%3D%26sa%3DG

 

maybe not a bomb seagull, but pretty close to.

 

The sign is just funny.

[Guest recoton007]

For some explaining on bat bombs:

 

Bat Bombs Away!

Now I know why they call 'em the Greatest Generation. What other group would have the moxie to turn bats into trained bomb-droppers?

The idea behind World War II's Project X-Ray "was that a bomb-like canister filled with bats would be dropped from high altitude over the target area," says Murdoc Online. "The bats would be in a sort of hibernation, but as the bomb fell (slowed by a parachute) they would warm up and awaken."

 

 

At the appropriate altitude, the bomb would open and over one thousand bats, each carrying a tiny time-delay napalm incendiary device, would flutter away and roost in various nooks and crannies, many of them in extremely flammable wooden Japanese buildings.

 

The napalm devices would go off more or less simultaneously, and thousands of little fires would start at the same time. Many of them would grow into large fires, and the ability of the Japanese firefighters to contain them would quickly be overwhelmed...

 

Seems to me, as outrageous as it sounds, that it could have worked... In fact, one afternoon while demonstrating the napalm devices, several bats woke too early in the lab, flew off, and ended up burning down the brand-new but uninhabited Carlsbad Auxiliary Army Air Base in New Mexico. Really.

 

 

Of course, this is the era of warrior-thinkers that came up will all sorts of so-crazy-it-might -just-work schemes -- items like paper bombs, plague-filled subs, and aircraft carriers made of ice.

 

The October 1990 edition of Air Force magazine has a hilariously detailed rundown of the whole bat bomb episode. And Defense Tech Dad Tom Shachtman covers all sorts of WWII-era military research follies in his book Laboratory Warriors: How Allied Science and Technology Tipped the Balance in World War II.

 

THERE'S MORE: "Our intelligent designer has never created an animal that we couldn't improve by strapping a bomb to it," snarks Joel.

 

 

 

looks like you have a lot of free time on your hands

have you considered picking up a book

[Guest MadBadger]

the rusian dogs with mines on there backs worked. The ruskies wernt that stupid they used captured german tanks, but they only did it once or twice (with about 10 or so dogs each time) when they were realy desperate, just before they started roling off the best tank in the world the T-36.