Thursday, March 30, 2006

Future Weapons Vikings are pleased

Over the past few weeks I have been researching a number of proposed future weaponry which the armed forces wishes to install over the next few years. It would seem each branch has a different idea of the future and are not necessarily working towards the same goal. The semi-independent future operations plans are quite amusing! I will give a short break down of my research in some areas which I found highly interesting.


Army: The main issues of new technology are:
  1. soldier 2010: soldier with liquid armour advanced artificial specter systems or biological spidersilk (comes from splicing goat and spider DNA very cool), advanced communication and tactical readout systems, has performance enhancing body suit (capable of strength assistance as well as speed enhancement). Individual bullet targeting (capable of changing direction after being fired. Enhanced weaponry with either bullpup design or standard firing with 3 types of ammunition 1. Standard 7.62x51 NATO round 2. Standard 9mm round, 3 . 20 mm rocket. All firing from same tactical weapon.

  2. Various armoured vehicles with reactive armour (Armour which has explosives underneath which when hit exploding deflecting harmful ballistics away from the vehicle). Optical camouflage (Has built in optical devices which transmit on a screen the other side of the vehicle essentials making it invisible to regular sight. As well as various communication and directional detecting equipment and communication blackout equipment. Also has various non-lethal weaponry such as targeting infrared weaponry, microwave emitters and various low wavelength emitters which either burn the skin when pointed or emits sound waves which disperse crowds.

  3. Medical evacuation equipment which is essentially the mobile operating room, robotic vehicle that goes to hostile territory picks up wounded soldier and moves him to safety all the while has surgeons operate on him with robotic arms repairing the damage immediately! (very cool)

Stay tuned for more updates as I now want a root beer and to play video games for several hours!