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The largest shotgun I have ever heard or seen is a 12 gauge shot gun used by cops that is capable of decapitating your head with just one shot. But, here’s the big daddy of all shotguns. This one takes about two people to move the gun from one place to the other.

Since the gun is so heavy, it has to be mounted on the punts. Thus, the world’s largest shotgun is also known as a Punt gun. When mounted, the gun almost looks like a cannon. According to the reports, a single shot from the Punt can wipe out about 50 to 100 ducks.

The embedded video shows the big guy lifting the heavy gun. I guess it would be better if we call it cannon instead of a gun. Due to the weight of the gun, the recoil is huge. So, you have to really watch out while firing. Basically, you can take out a whole case of clay targets stacked on a board with this big and long punt gun. The next longest model would be the shotgun like pellets assembled by the Indonesians. The pellets can fill about 50 Olympic swimming pools.

Eccentricity doesn’t spare anything!! Not even objects that you equate with style. How would you transform the deadliest objects on earth into objects of bafflement? By designing them with a tinge of wild creativity….

One look at these guns and you would forget that they could kill. Far from their original purpose, these guns do not seem to have even the ‘looks that kill.’ However, they do catch the fancy of art collectors. The shotgun with the viewfinder aside, the rest of the guns look like they have been transported from a different age or possibly, from a different planet altogether. Nevertheless, they do have the looks to grab attention. If you are a lover of ‘all things unique’, these guns are for you!!! Go get’em….

Via: 2dayblog

Well, guys I would have never imagined a machine-gun packed with a MAG light, dinnerware set, Swiss Army knife, high intensity flood light, and even a bird figurine to gaze at when not in battle, but this multifunctional machine-gun gave me a jolt.

Now, as this gun encompasses almost everything that I can imagine for survival and assistance in the battlefield, I will like to appreciate that anonymous designer for keeping up the good work to make it world’s first machine-gun of its type.

Via: Techeblog

US Navy has just unveiled their plans to develop an unmanned combat aircraft that will combat Lockheed Martin’s F-35 joint strike fighter.

Furthermore, to accomplish the project, Northrop Grumman is awarded with $636 million contract to design, build, and fly an Unmanned Combat Air System ‘that would operate from the decks of the Navy’s giant nuclear-powered aircraft carriers’.

Now, if the project goes according to plans, very soon we will see that gunners will join the forces within 10 to 15 years.

Moreover, if we consider our land-based automatic soldiers to fire our weapons as deployed in Iraq, then we can forecast that time is not far ahead when a full-blown robotic army will soon wrestle in wars.

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Via: Lifeparticles

Since the war began in Iraq, for the first time robots are equipped with guns to patrol streets of war zone.

After three years of development “special weapons observation remote reconnaissance direct action system’, (SWORDS) robots are armed with M249 machine guns in Iraq. However, the bot has not yet fired a single shot but according to ‘Michael Zecca’, the program manager of SWORDS, it will happen soon.

No doubt that the modified version of SWORDS called, bomb-disposal robots were also used throughout Iraq back in 2004 but due to some safety measures the machines were not sent to the battlefields whereas machine’s tendency to spin out of control from time to time was also one of the major catch.

Therefore, now radio-controlled robots are retooled for more safety. In earlier weeks, weak signals delayed robot functioning for as much as eight seconds to receive orders during combat. Now, the SWORDS don’t functions on a command, unless it’s received instantly and via three-part arming process with both physical and electronic safeties, also mandatory before firing. Moreover, to combat the odd behavior, kill switches are also installed.

Zecca asserts, ‘So now we can kill the unit if it goes crazy.

Initially only three robots are deployed in Iraq. Although, Zecca is ready to send more, however, couldn’t due to some financial crisis. Whereas until now, Army is also not considering these bots as a priority but the day these machines will begin their firefights, the bots will emerge as first precedence of the army.

Via: Blog.wired

The revolver pictured above might not be the most high-tech, but it does have something to boast. It’s the world’s largest revolver as per Guiness Record Award in 2005 that measures 1260 mm.

This .28mm, Pfeifer Zeliska of Mr. Ryszard Tobys is a copy of the Remington’s 1859 model. I think it should also encompass some rest with it to make it handier for use.

Via: Newlaunches

For the people who watch shows like Future weapons, here’s some good news. Boeing has signed a deal with US Army recently. The Boeing company would be developing truck mounted laser canons. So far we have had truck mounted regular cannons and missile launchers, but no laser cannons. This will be the first of its kind.

This will be part of the US Army’s High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator project. The deal is worth about 7 million dollars. Part of the project will deal with mounting this heavy duty cannon on top of a 20 tonne tactical truck. The other part is to test out the newly developed beam control system. The US Army plans on mounting this laser system on trucks, hummers, jeeps and choppers.

Doesn’t this sound like some kind of space age technology out of Star trek? I think it does. This will take weapons to a new arena and will probably give the US Army the edge over other forces of the world. The General Manager of Boeing Missile Defense systems Pat Shanahan agrees:

We consider this program an important win for Boeing because it supports a cornerstone of the Army’s high-energy laser program

Eventually, the project costs will go up to about 50 million dollars due to the further enhancements involved in the project. A system like this should be able to pin point an incoming mortar shell and split it into half. At least, that’s what the project is geared towards.

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To design some giant flying robotic-plane that can fly of its own for minimum two days and spy everything in the air and on the ground for miles, Air Force has signed up all major aerospace companies. As per expectations, we can now actually see incredible design pouring out of the best minds working on it and among them one is the diamond-shaped shuriken that looks like a Boeing. Nevertheless, according to Defense News, Air Force has to embed sensors themselves on the wings of this plane as per the requirements.

To make it lighter, the wings of this SensorCraft are kept empty from inside and can stay in the air at 60,000 feet altitude. Some other designs in the next 5 years unveil designs like B-2-esque flying wing that will consume approximately $12 million. All the planes will be gigantic, whereas the linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil in the area will be around 200 feet with 90,000 pounds or more gross takeoff weight.

According to the industry analysts the designs require good size to sport the king-sized, low-frequency high precision antennas fabricated on to the mid section of the aircraft those are especially designed to bestow ‘high gain and foliage penetration radar capability... to defeat extreme difficult targets.’

Defense News further quotes that an ultra high frequency radar system can form fraction on the outboard wings (at least in the Northrop design) to record long-range moving targets in the air, whereas an X-band radar system with antennas planted at the trailing edges of the inboard wing can facilitate planes to spy in the air targets with accuracy.

Therefore we can assume that sensors have to function twofold because they spy and support plane too for smooth actions. It seems that sensors can perform more functions then this but I think that their functions can vary according to aircraft design. Nevertheless, it is worth mentioning that these flying spying machines will definitely help to record the data that is essentially important for security reasons and to keep an eye on enemies and on their activities.

Via: Blog.wired

In this day and age of technology, it’s quite surprising that Navy is still looking for routines to predict the location of the bomb. Believe it or not, it’s true. According to report, the official of Naval Research is interested in getting theoretical and technical methods, which would not only give them a much-needed cushion in terms of prediction of bomb placements but also Naval officers in duty can also identify and localize bomb makers.

As advanced sensor networks are the order of the day at present juncture, there is hardly a surprise that Navy is only interested in proposal based on advanced sensor networks. You may ask: What so flash about advanced sensor networks? Advanced sensor networks can play a prominent part in automatically detecting the location of the bomb, which in turn will mean that Navy can neutralize them with less human involvement.

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Developed under 2002 project of government, Agentai has introduced its non-lethal bullets that is compatible to all ordinary guns and is packed with some unusual kind of chemical or you can say laughing gas or malodorants.

Unlike other common bullet, those pierce criminal bodies badly these strange bullets allow military to punch, slap and hit enemies without causing any injuries but burst to release chemical or laughing gas to make an individual laugh unusually.

These bullets have two big advantages:

Firstly, the bullets are safe to use from close range as compared to other bullets used for the same notion to terrify criminals.

Secondly, as stated above it can be used in any ordinary rifles and do not need any specific weapon.

However, after the achievement of first phase of development, $99,899 was awarded to this project but no further development was recorded. Now, Agentai, has offered their next idea, the Rockets Assisted Safe Projectile (RASP) that is a rocket projectile designed to deliver ‘chemical agents that can further incapacitate or maintain the incapacitation of the targeted individual’.

Now let us see how soon this new programmed proposed will become reality, I hope very soon and we will definitely keep you posted.

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It has been every youngster’s dream to emulate a superhero and acquire super-human powers. All of us at some point in time have dreamt of turning invisible or having self-healing attributes that make one invincible. Till date, these characteristics have been rendered an air of fantasy and have been associated only with comic book characters. However, this dream might turn into reality someday. DARPA – Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency has allotted a whopping $15million for research into super shields for urban soldiers.

Materialization of this research would mean soldiers who wear the shield would turn invisible, possess healing properties and would even turn transparent to allow bullets to be fired right through them. Grapevine has it that the Agency would never invest into anything that is remotely impractical. This means, the research is anticipated to deliver the goods. In recent times, significant progress has been observed in research on visible light bending meta-materials and self-healing substances. Going by these advancements, the production of the super shield might just be a matter of time.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a subsidiary of the United States Department of Defense. It is responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. It is the technological engine of the Department of Defence.

Via: OhGizmo

Boeing has just tested their ahead of its time robotic helicopter that can fly around without any pilot to accomplish its mission successfully.

However, this robotic helicopter was tested for only 12 minutes but this spy machine is capable to reach swiftly at 140 knots on 30,000 feet for approximately 20 hours.

This flying machine is chiefly designed to spot terrorists from above and to pick them off without any margin for error.

I am quite excited to know what kind of goggles or sensors this advanced helicopter is bundled with that enables him to fly itself to spot and pick only terrorists, is the technology applied to develop this spying machine is quite confidential, might be!

Whatsoever, not much info is yet unveiled about the spying machine that can be sent to search out terrorists democrats in some major cities but we will definitely keep you posted.

Via: Scifi

The latest news in the air is that DARPA is now accepting applications for a new ’smart tape’ sensor patch to monitor troop’s health on battlefields and even when they are not there.

The main objective of this programme of DARPA is to create low-cost medical sensor systems to support DoD missions and to compute the snowballing effects of blasts exposure.

This new programme will also assist to combat medical care, patient triage and physiologic monitoring to maintain physiologic performance of soldiers but it is also predicted that to meet these goals the programme will demand furthering print-on electronics and ink formulation technologies. So therefore, to eliminate these demands DARPA is nowadays busy in receiving proposals to exploit the novel properties of print-on electronics to construct these medical monitoring systems.

The agency has two principle systems to achieve, firstly to develop an helmet (or body-mounted) blast dosimeters and secondly, to develop basic patient physiological monitoring devices to measure heart rate, body temperature, pulse, respiration and blood oxygen saturation.

Each system will come bundled with a patch-like sensor device and a monitoring unit to communicate with the sensor tape patch.

But along with these systems other ground-breaking medical devices that integrate print-on electronics and related technologies can also be proposed, might be for future amalgamation of all the technologies and to create an avant-garde technology that might encompass all the systems in one single sensor.

Via: Medgadget

If we put some light on choppers worst disasters from the day the war began in Iraq, the reports reveals that somewhere around 28 people’s died in different attacks due to helicopter’s crash via RPG(Rocket propelled grenade) artillery. Now, to surmount the RPG guns New Jersey-based inventor Richard Glasson, has developed the first-ever anti-RPG system for aircraft which is a volley of nets that catch the grenades before they hit.

To develop this high-tech innovation Glasson a chief engineer at Control Products, a company that designs sensors for aerospace and defense and who has also worked on sensors that protect gearboxes from overheating on the president’s Marine One choppers and in jet engines on most commercial airliners, was inspired by the Mark Bowden’s best seller Black Hawk Down which gives an account of the 1993 killing of 18 U.S. soldiers in Somalia when an RPG brought down their chopper. Glasson said:

I couldn’t believe that such a low-tech weapon could take down a several-million-dollar aircraft,’ that’s a spectacular outcome for a 40-year-old technology.

It is noteworthy that other countermeasures, such as radar jammers and flares are also proved worthless against hand weapons like RPGs. Defense companies are also working on some new systems that would fire projectiles at the grenades to demolish them and according to the Glasson this new system will be just ‘like hitting a bullet with a bullet’.

Therefore, instead of supporting the above mentioned concept to combat RPG’s he advised defense, as RPGs targets are amazingly straightforward and far much slower than the heat-seeking missiles he developed a new system that would block or at least avert the grenades before they hit the chopper.

Normally, RPG takes four to six seconds to explode when fired (unless it hits solid object- then it detonates on impact) it doesn’t explode after being fired (unless it hits a solid object-then it detonates on impact) but Glasson’s this new system enables chopper radar to calculate the speed and trajectory of an incoming grenade within milliseconds .

Half a second later, pods of launch tubes bundled on the helicopter aim and fire between one and eight unguided yard-long rockets on an intercept course with the grenade. The aim of rocket doesn’t have to be precise because each drags a braided steel-cable parachute woven with Kevlar and in the next second, these fast-opening chutes blow-up to form a series of six-foot-wide bombproof nets to catch the grenade and to drag it to the ground.

However, Glasson is still not sure about all the functioning of its new system until his will test the system on a real helicopter for which he will need the support of Pentagon or some of the contractors. Pentagon on the other hand does not seem to be much interested in the system, they told the developer that they are much interested in a laser based protection system, which is years from development. Glasson still is not losing hope, he is of the belief that the recent crashes will convince Pentagon to give at least one try to the system developed by him.

All the best Glasson.

Via: Popsci

Detecting explosives had been a major problem for bomb disposal squad for a long time but now to surmount the common problems of detecting explosives by losing their glow, Ling Zang and his colleagues from Southern Illinois University at the University of Illinois based at Urbana-Champaign with the Chinese Academy of Sciences have come up with the new system.

If we consider present scenario to detect explosives it is totally based on technique known as ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) with which explosive compounds pass down a length of tubing where they are ionized by a strong electric field whose distinctive drift speed plus ‘kinetic signature’ of each molecule permit the sensor to distinguish between compounds with different mobilities. Now to overcome present technique barriers to detect explosives, this new generation sensor material that is a fluorescent film and which is made of nanofibrils(carbon nanotubes predominantly having diameters substantially less than about 200 nm.) can sense the presence of vapors from TNT and from other related explosives compound with greater efficiency than existing materials.

The tests reveal that the material was able to recover its capability to fluoresce after initially losing its fluorescence while sensing the explosive compounds.

These preceding nanotubes or nanofibrils are grown in aggregates and encompasses a macroscopic morphology of either bundles of relatively straight tubules, cotton candy (’CC’), or approximately spherical aggregates of highly intertwining, curved tubulesresembling bird nests (’BN’), or mishmash of these.

This new innovation uses essentially amorphous cellulose nanofibrils equipped with a crystallinity index not more than 50 % as emulsifying and/or stabilizing agent in dispersion.

It is also noteworthy that these nanofibrils can also be used in the form of an aqueous suspension or in dispersible dry form.

Via: Softpedia