Future Wierd Weapons

I just watched a show on History Channel, "Modern Marvels" about strange weapons to control mass crowds and riots, and used in the war zone. Firstly, they talked about the ADS, the Active Denial System, a weapon that uses an amplified infrared beam to make the water molecules heat up and excite, creating a sudden ,non-lethal, burning sensation. That weapon is mounted on a military vehicle called the Mum-V. Then, they talked about lasers. there is a super high powered laser that could burn through almost anything! Then, the US military has an aircraft, a modified 747, that has a laser to shoot down missiles! There was a giant speaker , creating a super irritating and unbearable sound that would make the rioters flinch and leave.

The second part was about guns. Firstly, a new gun was showcased, the Corner Shot, designed to shoot bullets round the corner to hit targets with precise accuracy. It basically has a pistol on a "pouch" that pivots 180 degrees, and a camera mounted on it, so that images can be seen of the target at safe distances. They then showed us a modified BB gun, that shoots a whole lot of small plastic pallets, causing pain on a very small spot.

They also talked about ninja weapons and easily concealed weapons such as the cane gun and the palm gun.

The final part was on bombs. A type of bombs, the flash bang, creates a deafening sound and a blinding light at the same time, stunning the target without harming him permanently. The old version of flash bangs were dimply just hand grenades, but a new version uses a air pump to pump out aluminum powder, that ignites outside the canister instead of inside, which making it a safer weapon. Upscale this principle by a few times and you would get a Thermobaric bomb. The Thermobaric creates a shockwave and a very big fire, destroying unreachable places like bunkers, caves, etc. The Russians detonated the biggest Thermobaric bomb, that they claimed was the "Father of All Bombs".

The weirdest of all weapons was the dam breacher. Its use was to break the dams that supplied the Germans with power during the war. There were 2 conventional ways to do that, by dropping a bomb straight on it, that was almost impossible, and secondly to shoot a torpedo into the dam, but as the Germans set up torpedo nets around all their dams, that way was also undo able. So, an inventor invented an ingenious bomb that can do the job. It was filled with high explosive, and was spun backwards by a motor before launching it, making it skip on the water rather than sinking, and make it roll under the dam and blast a hole in it, rather strange, but this weapon destroyed 2 German dams and damaged one.

These are some pictures.

The Humvee with the ADS (Active Denial System)


The CornerShot



The FlashBang


The Russian Thermobaric Bomb ("The Father of All Bombs")


The Dam Breacher