Unique Military Weapons
 

Cant recall ever seeing a thread on this topic so i thought it was time we had one... this thread is dedicated to military weaponry of any kind, from any era or nation.

There is a seemingly endless array of novel, fascinating, revolutionary or even ill-fated hardware out there so subject material shouldnt be a problem.

First entry coming up shortly...

The Tall White Tails are watching.

Daisy Cutter video here.

Cant believe that with all of the WWII books i've read and documentaries i've watched, that i'd never heard of this until a few days ago... a Japanese super submarine that carried and launched aircraft like a surface ship, the I 400 series.

Such a killer idea for those times, a real technical achievement that could've been extremely hard to deal with had it been invented sooner, luckily it never made it into action because it was designed primarily to strike at American cities on the coasts. It was a real piece of work, but its idea was usurped by the advent of missile technology that was much cheaper and easier to platform on a sub.

This is a short computer mockup that shows how it operated...

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This is the full documentary for those inclined...

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Our weapon don't even compare

Next up, the stuff that really gives me a woody... next generation manned aircraft, as opposed to the super cool but unmanned UCAV stuff.

Call it Aurora or whatever, but i would give a left nut to be privy to some of this, although its quite possible i've seen some variation of it in person and not known it... not long ago i was watching a documentary about lighter than air aviation from a civilian uses perspective and the key ingredient for this was the use of helium.

As some of you might remember, i was in the automotive sales business for quite a while, you might also know that almost every car dealership just gets off on plastering their lots with balloons to attract the eye of passers by... well, two years ago helium was taken off the market by the government, its no longer available (much to the chagrin of car dealers).

Now think about what that element could do for an aircraft made of super lightweight stealth materials... alloys, composites, polymers etc... think of the ships hull being honeycombed with it for lighter weight yet structural rigidity...

Now imagine tanks of helium inside that can disperse within the craft for flight and then be sucked back into the tanks for landings and other maneuvers... then throw in the zero point propulsion systems that we surely have by now but havent advertised.

Such a craft would be unbelieveably fast and maneuverable... laugh if you must, thats okay, but i bet if we could see what the various skunkworks have right now, our collective jaws would smash into the ground.

Heres a short clip full of possibility...

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Let's fly an Andy Reid balloon.

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The Pykrete aircraft carrier. /endthread

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Ah yes, i remember seeing something about this years ago, but there were severe problems with it that killed the idea... i'm thinking melting was the problem, lets see...

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Who doesnt love lasers?

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How about the small pox infested wool blankets

The earliest form of biological warfare, what a dastardly deed.

Early Americans were some some hardcore, heartless mother****ers.

Greek fire.

Ancient people were unbelievably technologically proficient...

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The Roman pilum, scutum, and gladius hispaniensis basically let their infantry be the best for a good 300 years.

Spears and swords in well trained hands and formations, yep, great stuff... i'm definitely saddened by the demise of Deadliest Warrior on Spike, i guess they just ran out of interesting matchups.

I forget the name of the show because it was so short lived, but Spike did a show with Richard Mackowicz (sp?) the ex-SEAL, where special-ops units from various nations would compete against each other taking down various targets, it was very cool to see the (not real units, but thrown together for tv) individuals and their varying tactics.

If i had to guess why its not still on, i wouldnt guess lack of viewers, its that the military didnt want enemies seeing strengths and weaknesses played out on live tv.

Snatch always wins.

Gimme moar, this thread is dying a paupers death in a lonely, lime filled hole.

AWACS/ E3.

Fake! They don't go "pew-pew"

Not military and far from practical, the largest rifle ever.
http://m.mrconservative.com/mrconser...27f5d9d0045baf

Heavy and repeated use of biological weapons is the only modern tactic I would care for. Sad.

Not the earliest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...ogical_warfare
My favorite, though, was when they'd catapult corpses into besieged cities to spread the plague:

Cute/early Romans

Yep, i'd completely forgotten how they used to catapult plague vicitms into besieged towns, good call guys.

How about this, invisibility cloak in action or "frame lag"?...

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ed- not sure why it wont load, but it appears to show a soldier appear out of nowhere and climb onto an Abrams in the middle east during a firefight.

Holy shit,it's the Jem Hadar

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Thats pretty badass, Bowser, has some real range to it at 800 meters, love the way the spokesman put "it basically creates a one man mortar team".

Going to the live fire 203 range was the always the single most fun thing i did in the army.

The first thing I thought when I saw the vid was that it was something straight out of a COD game. Awesome weapon.

I've heard stories about heat seeking bullets, but couldn't find anything real or of substance on YouTube. THAT is some next gen shit.

I think Future Weapons might've done something about those.

A huge regret of mine was never getting to see what kind of waste i could lay with one of these...

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I remember reading years ago about how they had invisibility cloaks in development. I don't remember the exact details, but apparently LED was some kind of breakthrough, along with the miniaturization of camera technology. I'm sure it's advanced well beyond this, but at that time, as i recall, they had a series of cameras that would record on one side of your body and then leds would project the image on the other. And they had this working on multiple levels, from individual to tanks and planes.

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Exactly, i bet by now they have it in use in the field, particularly the smaller stuff like individual suits.

Metal Storm = WOW

An unmanned sentry capable of that kind of destruction.

WWII Bat bombs
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"Bat Bombs"... that one was a real doozy, good call... filed under "ill fated".

That idea smelled of true desperation, if it could've saved japan from the nuke it would've been great... but such is life.

Where is Donger? what about you Cheater 5?

Thought for sure i'd get an interesting entry from them...

With that query, to the high seas we go, never seen this one before, pretty damn cool looking...

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Is this footage real or BS?
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Gotta go with the with the Davy Crockett recoilless rifle. The most powerful weapon ever carried and fired by a single man.

Its real, it was taken by insurgents after blowing the tracks after the first Abrams on the scene.

The Davy Crockett tactical nuke in action...

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Guess we dropped one of these on a tank column that came charging out of Bagdad. When the back half of the column saw what happened to the front half they decided surrender sounded like a good idea.


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Davy Crockett nuclear weapon.

Bouncing bomb used by the Dambusters. There's a shot in here on how NOT to drop them:

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****er.

Definitely an incredible weapon, iirc it sends depleted uranium rounds out in all directions.

I've heard that it was pixelated camo designed to **** up video surveillance

Excellent contribution.

Not military, but...

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XF-85 Goblin Parasite Jet.

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That bottom ship is even more futuristic looking, but its no bigger than a coastal patrol boat.

I've read stuff here and there saying the Navy isnt sure whether or not these newer designs are worth the money, that they might stand pat with the few already built.

LMAO

One for teedubya:

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ROFL..I

Kind of icky considering George's lab thread, but:

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Since that ****er Hamas beat me to it with the Crockett, I'll show Atomic Annie:

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Not necessarily unique, but here's THAAD doing it's dance on range. Starts at 0:06

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Fire balloons launched by the Japanese against us and Canada during WWII. One resulted in the only deaths (6) of Americans on CONUS by enemy action during the war:

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Saw it on this episode of Future Weapons.

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Each bomblet has its own identification and tracking system. As it hovers over an area it searches for vehicles, when it identifies one it locks on and fires its weapon which shoots a jet of molten copper.

My flash player is currently dropping a turd on my head, but i'll check it out soon, thanx for that...

Bumping this thread, there is just too much incredible technology out there right now to not keep up with it, I will make efforts to update frequently

So lets start back with THAAD, its hard to fathom the extreme accuracy involved in trusting a kinetic weapon to take out a missile

Why would you not want an explosive warhead for insurance, proximity fused to go off if its going to be a near miss etc? With all of the problems involved in creating the latest missiles for various platforms and their accuracy/reliability that I read about... its just difficult to understand how THAAD can be trusted to be so accurate

Someone help me understand here


Now to another interest...


I am totally fascinated with our various stealth aircraft craft and the technology they employ

So anyway, it appears that certain nations like Australia are looking for cost effective alternative/complementary pieces for the F-35 and are rebuilding and retrofitting the old but legendary and still quite viable F-15 airframe into stealthy assets

Notice the body reframing, matte finish of stealth coatings and recessed bomb bay of the Silent Eagle...

https://www.google.com/search?q=f-15...y67GXXaOaGM%3A

https://www.google.com/search?q=f-15...H2IQOgqN9NM%3A

And while there isnt a single link I can find to prove it, it sure looks like the F-16 on the left, the prettiest little warbird ever created IMO, the Porsche roadster of fighter jets has gotten the same stealthy treatment

You can ditch the fuel pods on the wings of the 15-16 too, look how sleek and radar evasive they would be without those

http://www.janes.com/article/63090/a...cise-concludes

one of these is on the hill overlooking Ft. Riley.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2102

The 15's rcs is going to need more than paint and a recessed bay, better break out the sawzaw.

as far as I've see the Silent Eagle died since no one committed to purchase

http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircr...ircraft_id=844

Based on what I've read it isnt meant to be/cant be true stealth, but does have a significantly reduced RCS

Yeah the pic I posted from Janes might just make it look like a Silent Eagle, but it appears that Israel wants to order some of them

https://warisboring.com/israel-prefe...b6f#.95713hz0e


At any rate, this is the coolest, most futuristic looking tank I've ever seen... the Polish PL-01

http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/08...ms-should.html

Heavy Gustav, the WWII era German rail gun. The largest caliber riled weapon ever used.

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Nice call, Amno, what a monstrous thing that was... this link shows a pic of the rounds it fired :eek:

https://warisboring.com/a-nazi-war-t...ebd#.ejenbusql

It wasn't worth the cost, the rcs was only marginally better, stealthy will never be an attribute of the 15.

Yeah, amazing.

Good thread, btw. I should be able to contribute more. A bit swamped at the moment.

Iron Man will be a reality by 2018

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-te...or-deployment/

yeah, I would think the cost of modifying airframes for the changes was pretty substantial.

looked cool though

Haha.. True!

Star Wars fans and Army warriors rejoice, the Hoverbike is almost here

http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/08...make-very.html

Japans first indigenously built stealth fighter - gotta say, as 5th gen goes its not a very pretty bird at all, and looks awfully small as well

Pic

https://www.google.com/search?q=japa...94ESJ0b-mEM%3A

Article

http://www.businessinsider.com/japan...lth-jet-2016-1

great, now Japan is trying to corner the market on stealth planes. 20 years from now they'll be a reasonably priced entry stealth plane for air forces on a budget.

To see four of these come in for a landing one right after another on Friday's or take off in the morning in order for training exercises still gives me the chills after 3 years. Our HQ office is at the end of the runway at Andrews Air Force Base just outside the perimeter. They come in and take off super fast. The noise is incredible

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