Xenonics unveils digital night vision goggles

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The world leader in high-intensity illumination and low-light viewing technologies Xenonics Holdings has unveiled a new special device that enables you to see in the dark. This SuperVision digital night viewing device uses a patent-pending ‘Night Vision Weapon Sights‘ technology to see in the dark and operates on highly stylish CCD sensor to generate superior resolution of 380,000 pixels. This breakthrough technology outshines current military (Gen III) night vision device on performance grounds; thanks to its unparalleled benefit of up to 8x zoom magnification that enables targets to appear more crystal clear in the dark. The device utilizes xenon short-arc lamp technology with a specially designed parabolic reflector to throw its glittering white light beam till upto1.5 miles via its infrared filter. This SuperVision can prove highly beneficial for armed forces and other bird watchers to keep an eye on targets even at night and to get it one has to shell $1,399 only. Via:Gizmodo

US Military AEHF program: Next-Stage C4ISR Bandwidth

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US Military’s AEHF or Advanced Extremely High Frequency Milstar III satellites will provide a support to twice the capacity and 6 times higher data transfer than that of the current Milstar II satellites. These satellites will form the secure backbone of the Pentagon’s intermediate term Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) architecture. This process will continue until the larger capacity Transformational Communications Satellite System enters service and replaces them. This program will cover cost overruns and schedule slips. Via: defensetech

US Navy developing non-lethal ‘Vomit Beam’

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US Navy has also started researching on non-lethal weapons. They are now developing a non-lethal ‘Vomit Beam’ that can temporarily stun the target. The weapon shoots an invisible wall-penetrating beam that makes the target so dizzy that they puke. The company which is researching the device is touting that it is a ‘Star Trek hand-held Phaser Weapon set on Stun’. But according to me it can also be set on ‘Puke’. Via: boingboing

U.S. Navy develops cheap Solution for Tomahawk Cruise Missile

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Normally we see that the weapons are made using gun powder and are costing more that a million dollars each. Now the navy has developed a new kind of a missile that does not use gun powder for the blast and can reach incredible speeds. The secret behind these weapons which the navy is calling as the Railgun is the use of electricity instead of gunpowder. The Railgun works by sending electric current along parallel rails creating an electromagnetic force so powerful that it can fire the projectile at whooping speeds. These guns are also much safer than the other missiles in which a malfunction can make the missile explode in the ship only. The Railgun on the other hand is powered by electricity and can only be launched and cannot be misfired. The prototype of the system that was tested was only an 8-megajoule device but the future weapons will be able to deliver more than 64-megajoules. The Railgun fires the projectile to a distance of more than 200 nautical miles and that too with a speed of 380 mph. Navy will also introduce a 32-megajoule version in June with the final 64-megajoule version in 2020. Moreover other counterparts of the Railgun that is Tomahawk cruise missile costs around a million dollars whereas the Railgun projectile will have no gun powder so it will have a cost of just $1,000. The Railgun projectiles will also be equipped with a GPS system that will help in navigating it when it is in flight. The only problem with the researchers is that the 64-megajoule device when launched will be under the force of more than a thousand G and the electronics will be damaged in the process. They will have to develop some other alternatives for the same. The projectile when fired will literally go into space at the apex of its trajectory which will be around 95 miles above the surface of earth. Still the Navy has around thirteen more years to develop more technology that can survive the extreme G-forces that the projectile will undergo during its flight as they have planned to introduce the fully developed version in 2020.

Excalibur: GPS guided artillery developed by Raytheon

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Raytheon has developed the first of its kind GPS guided artillery which is ready for deployment in Kuwait after 8 years of research and development. The artillery was tested in Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. During the test 13 out of 14 managed to hit targets with only 10 meters of error when fired from a distance of 24 km, even when it was aimed 15 degrees off target. But the major concern for anything that runs on GPS signals is that these signals can be easily hampered by clouds and rain. Via: Gizmodo

DARPA to develop Plasma Acoustic Shield System

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To combat death matches U.S Research and Development wing are developing another ultramodern technology that will surely rule our weapons taxonomy. This Plasma Acoustic Shield System bundled with “dynamic pulse detonation,” applies an “intense” laser pulse to produce a ball of plasma. It also generates second laser pulse to produces a supersonic shockwave along with bright lights and big sounds to stun and fright enemies. But the manufacturer of this is also making a laser rifle for the army that will be able to shoot your target from over a mile. Via: Freebie-world

Military Develops Non-Lethal weapon dubbed Ray Gun.

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The military has developed a new Non-Lethal weapon called the Ray Gun. This new weapon uses high energy waves that makes the target feel that he is about to catch fire and he drops his weapons. According to some military officials the use of such weapons can save the lives of hundreds of innocent people in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Though the weapon is not expected to go into production till 2010, but still the officials gave a demo of the project. They fired beams from a large dish antenna that was mounted atop a Humvee at people who were enacting as terrorists. The range of the gun is claimed to be more than 500 yards that is seventeen times more than the range of other non-lethal weapons such as rubber bullets. The beam gives a sudden burst of heat to the target that is about 130-degree Fahrenheit. This heat makes the target think that his clothes are about to catch fire. The gun relies on the use of millimeter waves that can penetrate just 1/64th of an inch of human skin. This is enough to cause pain and discomfort to the target. These millimeter waves are even less harmful than the in kitchen Microwave’s, radiation from which can penetrate several inches of the human skin. The beams can also pass through all the clothing material. But if you are creative enough and have developed some concrete and glass clothes then you can say that you are safe

MOP: 30,000lb precision-guided bunker penetrator

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The new Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is the most powerful conventional penetrating weapon ever designed. Developed by Boeing, it is designed specifically to attack hardened concrete bunkers and tunnel facilities. MOP is a part of a technology demonstration program funded by DTRA. The aim of the program is to develop a 30,000-pound conventional penetrating weapon especially designed to penetrate hard and deeply buried targets. MOP is 20-feet-long which will be carried aboard B-2 and B-52 bombers and deployed at high altitudes. MOP is equipped with innovative design features including a GPS navigation system and packs more than 5,300 pounds of explosives. MOP has been tested successfully for a static tunnel lethality test March 14 at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) weapons tunnel complex at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Bob McClurg, Boeing Advanced Systems MOP program manager, speaks about the significance of MOP: The weapon’s effectiveness against hard and deeply buried targets allows the warfighter to hold adversaries’ most highly valued military facilities at risk, especially those protecting weapons of mass destruction. Source. Read more on MOP.

US Navy prepping an unmanned combat aircraft

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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.

Top five coil guns for you

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Here is an incredible list of top five coils guns, which I think are simple in making, but have good output. 1. ACG 85P 2 Stage Configurable Semi-Automatic Pistol: it is first of its kind portable semi-automatic coilgun pistol and can fire 5 shots per second at 2 joules. 2. Electromagnetic Pistol: CS-P01A: The gun has a capability to convert an energy of just 4.0J to a speed of 25m/s projectile fire. 3. EM-15 coil gun: This is a 12 VDC battery powered rifle that can fire .30caliber metallic projectile at adjustable velocities. 4. 18 Shot Repeat Coilgun: The gun uses a sophisticated mechanism to fire the projectile into the best position. 5. The Mk II Coil Rifle: This gun has a short charging tie of just 10 seconds and a firing energy of about 5 joules.