Mechanized Death: New Weapons that have been/are in development

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20344]

The U.S. Air Force now has a portable, inexpensive (relatively) weapon that can knock swarms of drones out of the sky:


https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/21/18701267/us-air-force-thor-new-weapon-drone-swarms



Hypersonic missiles fly 15 times the speed of sound and are deadly accurate:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/magazine/hypersonic-missiles.html?fallback=0&recId=1N6UoJYKYLTcaiLztE9KvB2qXi7&locked=0&geoContinent=NA&geoRegion=TX&recAlloc=top_conversion&geoCountry=US&blockId=most-popular&imp_id=111826386&action=click&module=trending&pgtype=Article&region=Footer



It makes me wonder what could be accomplished were all that brainpower and all that money and all those resources dedicated to something other than killing our fellow humans.

 

[bad_teammate 13132]

10 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

It makes me wonder what could be accomplished were all that brainpower and all that money and all those resources dedicated to something other than killing our fellow humans.

[Blotto 23432]

17 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

It makes me wonder what could be accomplished were all that brainpower and all that money and all those resources dedicated to something other than killing our fellow humans.

Figure out to eliminate warfare from the human experience, and people will stop trying to come up with more efficient killing machines. Seems simple enough.

Edited June 24, 2019 by Blotto

[David Dennison 18655]

3 minutes ago, Blotto said:

Figure out to eliminate warfare from the human experience, and people will stop trying to come up with more efficient killing machines. Seems simple enough.

The United States could do its part by not starting wars.

Just a thought.

[jimmyjazz 45555]

22 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

It makes me wonder what could be accomplished were all that brainpower and all that money and all those resources dedicated to something other than killing our fellow humans.

This dilemma was what prompted me to leave defense research for commercial applications.  I was actually comforted by the fact that the shit we came up with was so sci-fi that it had little chance of deployment in decades.

[RPM 26223]

32 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

It makes me wonder what could be accomplished were all that brainpower and all that money and all those resources dedicated to something other than killing our fellow humans.

[triplehorn 2664]

what are the odds that this, filmed by an F-18 mounted infrared camera, is actually one of ours ?  That rotation maneuver looks so...human. 

Anyway, non-combustion engine propulsion would be a game changer for advocates of saving the planet as well as for those bent on world subjugation and domination.  Take your pick.

 

 

[Loco 3752]

Just research Project Pluto....  fuck

 

 

Edited June 24, 2019 by Loco