Do you remember the days when we watch movies of rugged-looking soldiers shooting planes out of the sky with lasers and we would laugh and term it impossible? I mean, who would forget movies such as George Lucas' Star Wars series. Sorry to tell you, but some of those technologies are already in existence. Some of them are listed below:
#1
Lasers: We ain't talking about the miserly medical lasers,we're talking big big lasers that can shoot planes straight out of the sky. Let's start with planes. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is experimenting with mounting laser cannons on planes, if for no other reason than to give those awful people who shine laser pointers at airborne planes a taste of their own medicine. But then again, when you think about it, pilots are such a thing of the past. Drones are the future. We've already put bombs and machine guns on them, why not lasers? Recently U.S. Air Force captain and drone pilot Michael Byrnes explained in a military magazine how unmanned laser drones could be the future of aerial dogfighting. So, soon every air battle will be like Top Gun, but if Maverick was a robot and the planes burned up mysteriously because technically you won't even be able to see the laser.
But what if we create this technology and it falls into enemy hands? Simple: Just equip Hummers with anti-drone lasers. That way when our creation comes back to kill us like some Frankenstein monster made out of pure energy, we can take it out with EVEN MORE LASERS.
#2
Auto-aiming guns: Amazingly, technology now exists to make you and (more importantly) military snipers a perfect shot almost every time. A company called TrackingPoint, which according to its founder is full of "video game nerds," has created a gun for the military that makes shooting a distant target laughably easy. Whereas before snipers had to calculate a dozen different things in their head in order to get the perfect shot, now the gun can do it all for them. Literally. These firearms can tell the "atmospheric conditions, cant, inclination, even the slight shift of the Earth's rotation known as the Coriolis effect." That's right -- this gun can feel the Earth move. (And not in a sexual way, unless you really don't understand why most people like guns...or how sex works.) Forget snipers doing endless calculations; with TrackingPoint's gun, as long as they know the wind speed and direction, they are good to go.
#3
SuperVision:
Even though the military has access to radar, sonar, heat-seeking missiles, etc., in the end they are still limited by what their soldiers can actually see. But the military-industrial complex has never stopped trying to improve our weak and feeble eye abilities.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently built the military a fun new toy that literally sees through walls. It might look like a combination of outdated computers and a post office, but it was built to assist soldiers during urban combat by giving them access to one of Superman's best powers.
#4
Space Warfare:
By now people have gone to war on pretty much every inch of the Earth (you're next, Antarctica). And since video games have taught us that we inevitably get sick of killing people in front of the same scenery over and over, the next logical place to take war is outer space. Don't scoff; the technology is already available for some celestial ass-kicking.
China has already started testing its anti-satellite missiles, which, if ever utilized in warfare, could completely cripple countries who depend on the technology.
Kinetic bombardment was an idea put forth by an engineer turned science fiction writer in the 1950s. Also called "Rods from God" (because people were innocent back then and were not making a deity boner joke), the idea was simple: Send some sort of spacecraft to orbit the Earth armed with tungsten bars. Then drop them. No matter what you are trying to hit, even something deep underground, it will blow up. Also known as kinetic penetrators, these are guaranteed to give anyone a good shafting.
#5
Human Exoskeleton: Since we can't have an all-robot Army just yet, America's
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) have stepped in and invented a kind of Advanced Warfare wearable
exoskeleton that will make the average soldier as close to a robot as
possible: faster, stronger, and less likely to get injured. Suddenly,
those 100 pounds are going to feel like 50, allowing real live soldiers
to push themselves much further. Sometimes called the Iron Man suit,
this technology is actually named Warrior Web, and it is unbelievable.
It is lightweight, but strong. Flexible, except when it needs to be
firm. Soldiers wearing it can theoretically run a four-minute mile. It incorporates a liquid armor
that can stop bullets and prevent chemical weapons from entering the
body. It once dated Jennifer Lawrence and can solve a Rubik's Cube in
under a minute. That last bit might be made up, but honestly, it is
really hard to tell.
All these just make me wanna join the army. I believe someday our army will be advanced but first we gotta start taking research seriously and stop depending for ready-made.
Is there any one i skipped? let me know in the comments section below
#1
Lasers: We ain't talking about the miserly medical lasers,we're talking big big lasers that can shoot planes straight out of the sky. Let's start with planes. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is experimenting with mounting laser cannons on planes, if for no other reason than to give those awful people who shine laser pointers at airborne planes a taste of their own medicine. But then again, when you think about it, pilots are such a thing of the past. Drones are the future. We've already put bombs and machine guns on them, why not lasers? Recently U.S. Air Force captain and drone pilot Michael Byrnes explained in a military magazine how unmanned laser drones could be the future of aerial dogfighting. So, soon every air battle will be like Top Gun, but if Maverick was a robot and the planes burned up mysteriously because technically you won't even be able to see the laser.
But what if we create this technology and it falls into enemy hands? Simple: Just equip Hummers with anti-drone lasers. That way when our creation comes back to kill us like some Frankenstein monster made out of pure energy, we can take it out with EVEN MORE LASERS.
#2
Auto-aiming guns: Amazingly, technology now exists to make you and (more importantly) military snipers a perfect shot almost every time. A company called TrackingPoint, which according to its founder is full of "video game nerds," has created a gun for the military that makes shooting a distant target laughably easy. Whereas before snipers had to calculate a dozen different things in their head in order to get the perfect shot, now the gun can do it all for them. Literally. These firearms can tell the "atmospheric conditions, cant, inclination, even the slight shift of the Earth's rotation known as the Coriolis effect." That's right -- this gun can feel the Earth move. (And not in a sexual way, unless you really don't understand why most people like guns...or how sex works.) Forget snipers doing endless calculations; with TrackingPoint's gun, as long as they know the wind speed and direction, they are good to go.
#3
Even though the military has access to radar, sonar, heat-seeking missiles, etc., in the end they are still limited by what their soldiers can actually see. But the military-industrial complex has never stopped trying to improve our weak and feeble eye abilities.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently built the military a fun new toy that literally sees through walls. It might look like a combination of outdated computers and a post office, but it was built to assist soldiers during urban combat by giving them access to one of Superman's best powers.
#4
Space Warfare:
By now people have gone to war on pretty much every inch of the Earth (you're next, Antarctica). And since video games have taught us that we inevitably get sick of killing people in front of the same scenery over and over, the next logical place to take war is outer space. Don't scoff; the technology is already available for some celestial ass-kicking.
China has already started testing its anti-satellite missiles, which, if ever utilized in warfare, could completely cripple countries who depend on the technology.
Kinetic bombardment was an idea put forth by an engineer turned science fiction writer in the 1950s. Also called "Rods from God" (because people were innocent back then and were not making a deity boner joke), the idea was simple: Send some sort of spacecraft to orbit the Earth armed with tungsten bars. Then drop them. No matter what you are trying to hit, even something deep underground, it will blow up. Also known as kinetic penetrators, these are guaranteed to give anyone a good shafting.
#5
All these just make me wanna join the army. I believe someday our army will be advanced but first we gotta start taking research seriously and stop depending for ready-made.
Is there any one i skipped? let me know in the comments section below
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