Monday 5 March 2007

The Technology of War - Links to Hi-Tech Warfare

Links on hi-tech warfare. New weapons and soldier's equipment.

An article on CNN about the new Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), a sound-based non-lethal weapon mainly for growd control:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/03/03/sonic.weapon.ap/

Wikipedia article on the Active Denial System (ADS), also a non-lethal weapon utilising a stong energy wave:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System

The ADS is also known as the heat-ray-gun. Read more on BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6297149.stm

A resource page on Directed Energy Weapons being developed by for examples The Department of Defense and The Air Force Research Laboratory:
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/dew.htm

US military showing off State-of-the-Art Science, such as photovoltaic fabric:
http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_Modern,,00.html

The current equipment of the modern U.S. Soldier:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-iraq-soldier,0,1664173.blurb

A great text-resource on Future Weapons like the Hypersonic Attack Aircraft, the Reconnaissance UAV and the Orbital Combat Vehicle:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/project034.html

1 comment:

Petteri said...

also check out an interesting hobby project at www.railgun.org