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Post by clone on Jan 6, 2011 22:32:09 GMT -8
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Post by between managers on Feb 1, 2011 21:07:04 GMT -8
6 Terrifying New Weapons Being Created by the Pentagon Here is the Pentagon's battlefield vision of tomorrow. January 31, 2011 | In the future, the power of magnetism will be harnessed to make today’s high explosives seem feeble, “guided bullets” will put the current crop of snipers to shame, and new multi-purpose missiles will strike targets in a flash from high-flying drones... Today, DARPA is carrying on that more than half-century-old tradition through a host of programs designed with war, death, and destruction in mind. Wielding a budget of about $3 billion a year and investing heavily in futuristic weaponry and other military technology, it is undoubtedly helping to fuel the arms races of 2020 and 2030. While the United States seems content to let China sprint ahead in green technology, a number of its future weapons appear to be designed with a country like China in mind. All of its planning is, however, shrouded in remarkable secrecy. Make inquiries about any of the weapons systems it’s exploring and a barrage of excuses for telling you next to nothing pour forth -- a program is between managers, or classified, or only now in the process of awarding its contracts. DARPA spokespeople and project managers even prefer not to clarify or explain publicly available information. www.alternet.org/investigations/149750/6_terrifying_new_weapons_being_created_by_the_pentagon
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Post by clone on Feb 16, 2011 0:48:00 GMT -8
This one looks like something everyone can have. February 15, 2011 South Korea has a robotic "Super Gun" the Super Aegis 2 and India claims they will have a hypersonic missile in 2012 Billed by its manufacturers DoDaam of South Korea as a "Total Security Solution," the Super Aegis is an automated turret system that supports a variety of weapons, from a standard machine-gun to a surface-to-air missile. It is designed to repel an attacker from up to 3 kilometers away, using sophisticated thermal imaging software and camera systems to lock onto a human-sized target even in the dead of night The system requires no human presence. It's all operated robotically from a distant control room. nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/south-korea-has-robotic-super-gun-super.html
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Post by moabiter on Feb 19, 2011 8:23:45 GMT -8
As migratory hummingbirds are set to perish or already have in the GoM slough of toxic, burned, chemotherapy, the Stasi or are they Nazis DARPA psychopaths offer this, a new little toy. New! Nano Hummingbird - spy drone The Nano Hummingbird met all, and exceeded many, of the Phase II technical milestones set out by DARPA: www.avinc.com/nano
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Post by moabiter on Mar 13, 2011 8:27:23 GMT -8
Super-laser fully operational at last U.S. certifies $3.5 billion facility capable of simulating H-bomb’s energy updated 3/31/2009 1:59:21 PM ET 2009-03-31T17:59:21 WASHINGTON — After more than a decade of work and $3.5 billion, engineers have completed the world's most powerful laser, capable of simulating the energy force of a hydrogen bomb and the sun itself. The federal Energy Department announced Tuesday that it has officially certified the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, clearing the way for a series of experiments over the next year that eventually is hoped will mimic the heat and pressure found at the center of the sun. The facility, the size of a football field, comprises 192 separate laser beams, each traveling 1,000 feet in one-thousandth of a second to converge simultaneously on a target the size of a pencil eraser. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29964926/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/
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Post by clone on Jul 1, 2012 7:43:42 GMT -8
Cannon Shoots Lightning Bolts Guided By Laser Beams, The Laser-Induced Plasma Channel June-24-12 4:55 Scientists and engineers at Picatinny Arsenal are busy developing a device that will shoot lightning bolts down laser beams to destroy its target. Soldiers and science fiction fans, you're welcome. "We never got tired of the lightning bolts zapping our simulated (targets)," said George Fischer, lead scientist on the project. The Laser-Induced Plasma Channel, or LIPC, is designed to take out targets that conduct electricity better than the air or ground that surrounds them. How did the scientists harness the seemingly random path made by lightning bolts and how does a laser help? To understand how the technology, it helps to get a brief background on physics. A guided lightning bolt travels horizontally, then hits a car when it finds the lower resistance path to ground. The lightning is guided in a laser-induced plasma channel, then it deviates from the channel when it gets close to the target and has a lower-resistance path to ground. Though more work needs to be done, Picatinny Arsenal engineers believe the technology holds great promise. more: beforeitsnews.com/story/2302/084/Cannon_Shoots_Lightning_Bolts_Down_Laser_Beams,_The_Laser-Induced_Plasma_Channel.html
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Post by 360 pantherface on May 21, 2013 12:12:24 GMT -8
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