The year of the new super military invention

News page Killer Apps (USA) specializes in finding new and sophisticated military inventions of the world. Last year, they discovered a lot of such inventions. Below is a list of the 5 most notable weapons that received the agency's special attention in 2012.

These systems were either built in the last year or just made important progress in the process of becoming a combat weapon. In 2013, wait and see what will come out with those new inventions.

Gun print

Top of the list is the printed gun. While today's 3D printers can only print out guns that are capable of firing 6 bullets before failing, who knows where this technology will go in the next 5-10 years and that will make sense. How about every conflict in the world if anyone can print rifles that can shoot deadly.

As previously reported, the US military is moving towards 3D printing technology as a way to limit the amount of equipment soldiers must carry. Although some 3D printer manufacturers prohibit customers from using their equipment to produce weapons, it seems that the technology has been leaked out. Gun enthusiasts even set up another website to publish instructions - design - about gun production with 3D printers.

Unmanned combat ships

Next is the US Navy missile-capable remote-control ship, known officially as the unmanned water surface combat vessel (USV) with a Spike missile type from one " Precision battle module " (collectively called Surface Vessel Precision Engagement Module - USV PEM ). The system includes an 11met-sized super speed train, night vision and infrared cameras and is equipped with a caliber machine gun of 0.50 or 6 Spike manufactured by Israel.

In late October, USV-PEM - a joint project between the US and Israel - successfully launched 6 Spike missiles. This unmanned vessel is controlled by a group of sailors sitting at the control station on the shore or on an aircraft carrier. The vessel was designed primarily to hit the small, high-speed, super-high-speed fleets of ships that had limited defensive capabilities compared to large vessels. Remember that US Navy planners are worried that Iran uses a "small fleet" strategy to combat maritime services in any conflict in the Gulf.

Unmanned stealth aircraft (UAV) nEUROn

In the last two years we've heard about unmanned drones stealthing UAVs. When military policymakers around the world recognize the generation of small, slow drones powered by propellers, they will only be short-lived like the Cessna in high-tech warfare, they is trying to develop a new generation of unmanned stealth aircraft the size of a fighter.

Recently France, following the United States, became the second country to test the stealthy UAV aircraft after a test flight of the nEUROn on December 1. Dassault's unmanned aircraft is designed to be capable of carrying sensors and weapons, and it is noteworthy with the two wheels, features commonly found on aircraft carriers (the aircraft take off from the ground runway usually only 1 wheel on the front). Following nEUROn may be the Taranis unmanned aircraft of BAE Systems and MiG SKAT of Russia.

Unmanned vehicles

Not only in developing unmanned aerial aircraft for naval battles, Israel is also quietly developing teams of equipment to fight on land. Guardium is an armored desert vehicle (like a smart car) equipped with many sensors and weapons. These small cars can independently patrol, use sensors to automatically identify threats, and as Israeli Defense Minister said, it "uses many strong measures" to eliminate clues. this threat. It has been proven, that Guardium "hovering" around the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip can operate independently even without human supervision.

As the information of the manufacturer G-NUIS Unmanned Ground Systems, these robots can "react to unexpected developments, following specific programmed instructions for each field characteristics and security program" . (This is the unmanned weapon that Human Rights Watch is particularly concerned about.) While the US military is conducting very limited tests of these jeeps to transport troops to the military patrol in Afghanistan, Guardium may be the first aerial groundless device to operate on. world.

CHAMP supersonic rocket

Finally, let's find out about CHAMP (Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project - Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Project), or what Killer Apps site calls "flying power breakers" of Boeing. Missiles are designed to fly over a target - a building or a residential area - rather than to explode the target - to temporarily remove all electronic equipment nearby. Boeing and the US Air Force successfully tested CHAMP in October in the Utah desert. The missile flew a 1-hour round above the building filled with computers. The screens of these computers instantly turned black when CHAMP flew over and emitted a powerful ultrasonic wave.

You can imagine how such a weapon is useful in breaking down an opponent's air defense radar system, communications system, or anything that needs electricity. Let's see how the US Air Force will continue to invest in CHAMP when the capabilities they aim to seem to be what we often refer to as "achievable" with a key combination of a battle. Skillful computer soldiers work comfortably right in the center of Maryland of the US National Security Agency - NSA.