10 Most Insane Secret Weapons In The World
Russia’s Nuclear Tsunami Apocalypse Torpedo 'Poseidon'
Russia’s dreaded nuclear torpedo, designed to nuke entire coastal cities into oblivion and trigger tsunamis, has been sighted in tests at sea. Once thought a hoax, internet researchers have tracked development of the system all the way back to 2008. The weapon was recently named “Poseidon” after the Russian military polled the public for a new name.
The weapon, formerly known as “Status-6” and KANYON, was recently renamed Poseidon. Poseidon beat out two other names, Aurora and Skif, in a naming contest held by the Russian Ministry of Defense. Unfortunately The Worst Weapon Ever was not part of the contest, but it should have won handily.
DARPA has chosen a drone for its strange-sounding concept: charging aircraft in midair with laser beams. The concept could lead to unmanned planes that stay aloft indefinitely.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's laser-powered flying drone works like this: The aircraft has solar panels in the wings, particularly the dorsal wing, and batteries in the fuselage. The batteries provide the initial source of power, but as they drain down, the drone operators aim a laser beam at the solar panels. Regular shots of laser power can recharge the aircraft to the point where it can stay aloft indefinitely.
DARPA’s program is called the Stand-off Ubiquitous Power/Energy Replenishment - Power Beaming Demo (SUPER PBD). The agency has now picked Silent Falcon’s eponymous drone for testing. DARPA will try out the concept by flying the Silent Falcon and shooting a laser down at it from a mountainside.
The ability to recharge a drone with lasers does face some hurdles. For one, lasers lose strength the farther they travel and can be obscured or even blocked by smoke, haze, fog, and rain. DARPA figures it can recharge the drone at up to 6.8 miles, but that maximum will vary under real-world conditions. The team acknowledges there are safety issues with shooting a laser up into the air, which is why, for the test, they’re placing the laser on a hill and pointing downward (though they didn't say whether a drone-recharging laser could start a wildfire during the recharging process).
Nevertheless, if DARPA and Silent Falcon can prove this concept works, they could open the door to even longer-0range drones operating in both the commercial and military sectors. Drones could fly for weeks fulfilling a contract or mission, not landing until the job is done.
China's Giant Ionosphere-Zapping Radar Is a Defense System Masquerading as Science
The South China Morning Post recently revealed plans for a new Chinese radar facility on the island of Hainan, China’s southernmost point. Described as a “high-powered incoherent scatter radar,” this installation will bounce radio waves off the Earth's high-altitude layer of charged gas called the ionosphere.
Although the project is in step with the county’s other mega-science projects—like planning the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, building the largest single dish radio telescope, or racing other nations to the nuclear fusion finish line—experts think the new facility is more interested in military matters than discovering the secrets of Earth’s upper atmosphere.
America’s Least Secret Weapon
The possible military benefits of an ionosphere radar isn’t lost on other countries, especially the U.S. The Navy and DARPA ran a similar facility–the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Gakona, Alaska—before it was passed to the University of Alaska in 2014. Although it was sold as a project focused on studying the ionosphere, these 40 acres of radar antennas figured prominently in conspiracy theories involving government-sanctioned weather control, human-made earthquake and tsunamis or just general “mental disruption throughout a region.”
The conspiracy theories don't hold up, of course. Today the University of Alaska runs HAARP, pointing its arrays skyward for researching atmospheric plasmas, solar wind, and the behavior of particles in the ionosphere. But militaries are still intensely interested in the ionosphere because of one major tool on today’s modern battlefield: satellites.
During HAARP’s military tenure, experiments investigated possibilities of turning the ionosphere into a giant antenna for Extremely Long Frequency (ELF) radio waves. Unlike shorter radio wavelengths, ELFs travel through water and can be picked up by submarines at operating depth as deep as several hundred feet and several experiments tested this methods sub-aquatic communication abilities. The U.S. also hypothesized that ELF could detect mines or interfere with enemy satellites.
The Chinese facility will be similar to HAARP in many ways. Expected to begin construction later this year, it’ll be somewhat smaller having only “several hundred” megawatts, compared to HAARP’s 5.1 gigawatts of power. The big difference is motivation: the main purpose of the facility is apparent in its incredibly strategic location in the South China Sea.
HAARP was deliberately sited in the wilds of Alaska; the nearest settlement is Gakona, population two hundred. The Chinese facility is on the densely-population island of Hainan, beside Sanya, a beach-side city bigger than Miami or Honolulu with more than four hundred thousand inhabitants.
It’s an unusual location, according to Sue Mitchell of the University of Alaska Geophysical Institute, who says HAARP’s location was so remote partly because its high-power transmissions could have big city complications. “These can interfere with commercial radio stations in the area,” Mitchell told Popular Mechanics. “Siting it near a major city could cause issues.”
There’s also the question of air traffic. HAARP’s radio beam would have serious effects on any passing plane’s electronics. Whenever the facility is in operation, a Temporary Flight Restriction closes the surrounding area to aircraft. This happens only three or four times a year, but it can last up to ten days at a time.
“Air traffic is pretty sparse around Gakona, Alaska,” says Mitchell. “That was part of the reason for it being located where it is.”
By contrast, Hainan is the middle of international air traffic lanes for flights to China, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Any high-powered transmission is going to cause significant disruption or risk accidents. But where its location might be a headache for airline industries, it’s military benefits are equally numerous.
As long as U.S. submarines operate in this part of the world, China has no chance of dominating it. But a system which could blank out ELF communications and selectively interfere with other satellite communications would severely affect any submarine operations in the South China Sea.
China could even use the new array as a transmitter for ELF radar to detect submarines at long range. The U.S. Navy discounted this approach in the ‘80s but the technology may be ripe for reappraisal. At least a dozen of recent scientific papers have looked at ELF radar for investigating underground features, finding natural resources, and locating pipelines. Interestingly, almost all these research papers have been from China. One paper suggests the same technique might be applied to ‘underwater target detection,’ another looks at ELFs for detection of underwater objects. Finding submarines is definitely on the agenda.
This idea isn’t as far-fetched as it seems. In order to make it work, a military would need aircraft flying nearby with a magnetic detector to pick up radar returns. China’s new Y-8Q Maritime Surveillance Aircraft can do just that—and it’s already deployed in the South China Sea.
Pournelle’s idea came to have the name “Project Thor,” though it was eventually given the much more menacing title of “rods from god.” Regardless of the name used, the potential destruction was enormous. As explained by Popular Science, the rods from god were tungsten rods made to be nearly 20 feet in length and a foot in diameter. A pair of satellites would be placed thousands of miles above the earth, with one controlling the targeting and communications, while the other would carry an untold number of rods.
Starting with those on the ground monitoring and controlling the satellites, and ending with the rods’ impact, the whole ordeal could play out within 15 minutes. The rods from god could achieve speeds multiple time the speed of sound; the nine inches of penetration the lazy dog bombs could achieve pales in comparison to hundreds of feet their larger counterparts could travel.
Best of all? Project Thor could impact with the force of a nuclear weapon, without the nuclear fallout that would affect the surrounding environment and any people unfortunate enough to be there.
The Modern Day Equivalent
Project Thor was never turned into a real weapon, as they were simply too expensive to launch, but the concept of a weapon based on kinetic energy hasn’t gone away. In fact, it’s seeing a bit of a resurgence. In 2013, the U.S. Air Force 846th Test Squadron test fired a “Kinetic Energy Projectile warhead” that moved 3,500 feet per second, or three times the speed of sound. Earlier this month, the Navy tested a long-range electromagnetic rail gun and its electromagnetic hyper velocity projectile. According to Scout, it can fire a kinetic warhead “at speeds greater than 5,000 miles an hour.”
Speaking to Task & Purpose, Matt Weingart, weapons program development manager at Lawrence Livermore, explained that while a traditional bomb relies on chemical explosives to do damage, kinetic weapons only need speed and mass.
“[For traditional bombs] the violence comes from the chemical explosive inside that bomb sending off a blast wave, followed by the fragments of the bomb case,” said Weingart. “But the difference with kinetic energy projectiles is that the warhead arrives at the target moving very, very fast — the energy is there to propel those fragments without the use of a chemical explosive to accelerate them. The more mass, the more violence.”
It’s unclear how much money the U.S. military might save from switching to kinetic weapons, as well as just how far away we are from practical applications of kinetic weaponry in real world scenarios. Yet at the rate that technology is advancing, it’s only a matter of time before we incorporate space into warfare, and likely find new ways to increase the power of our weaponry as we do.
Juliet Marine Systems Ghost
Meet the underwater ghost ship: Stealth military machine can travel at high speed on water - then submerge in a 'supercavitation bubble' to hit similar speeds under the sea
Juliet Marine Systems has unveiled plans for an underwater version of its drag-reducing Ghost boat. The new concept, called the Guardian (pictured), is a ‘submersible unmanned surface vehicle’ that creates a bubble of gas around itself to minimize friction
Guardian will be powered by a diesel powertrain with hybrid electric drive, according to JMS.
The system will incorporate the same technology used in the Ghost vessel, but will be capable of both surface and subsurface operations.
It’s planned to be 30-45 feet long, and hit a top speed of 35 knots on the surface with four feet of draft – topping just over 40 miles per hour.
With these capabilities, Guardian could be used for surveillance, mine-hunting, and 'anti-swarm, short-range firepower.'
The firm estimates construction will take 18 to 24 months, and says the finished vessel could be transported by sea, air, or land.
‘We believe Guardian is the first surface vessel that is a fully submersible USV and one that will meet or exceed the USV mission needs of navies around the world at relatively low cost,’ says Gregory Sancoff, President and CEO of JMS.
‘We expect it to transform the way navies fulfil their operational requirements in maritime technology and provide greater capacity in littoral operations, with a host of multi-mission capabilities encompassing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR); mine hunting; and anti-swarm, short-range firepower.
'These is no other platform like this in the world.’
According to JMS, the design can also be customized for a buyer’s specific needs.
This comes just months after JMS revealed the Guardian’s predecessor, Ghost, earlier this year.
Sea Dragon Weapon
The U.S. Navy and an unknown defense contractor are working on a new missile the service says will give its submarines a new, “disruptive offensive capability” to take on enemy ships. The previously unknown weapon, known as Sea Dragon, supposedly combines existing an U.S. Navy platform with an existing capability, is likely a new version of a versatile air defense missile capable of pinch hitting as an anti-ship missile.
The Washington Post broke the story over the weekend that Chinese hackers had compromised the computers of a Navy contractor and stolen 614 gigabytes of data. The stolen data pertained to the Navy’s Naval Undersea Warfare Center, which conducts research and development on submarine systems. According to the Post, the stolen data includes, “signals and sensor data, submarine radio room information relating to cryptographic systems, and the Navy submarine development unit’s electronic warfare library.”
As if that weren’t bad enough, it also included data on the Navy’s new “Sea Dragon” weapon system. The Post withheld some key information about Sea Dragon at the request of the Navy, but did state that the weapon is a supersonic anti-ship missile for use by submarines. According to a statement by the Navy, the weapon was a “disruptive offensive capability” created by “integrating an existing weapon system with an existing Navy platform.” The weapon was to start underwater weapons testing later this year and be ready for service 2020.
What is Sea Dragon? Well, the Navy knows, as does a certain defense contractor. And it’s safe to say that China knows thanks to that 614 gigabytes of lost data. The fact that the missile is based upon “an existing weapon system” is a huge clue, as is the fact that it’s supersonic. All four of the Navy’s offensive missiles: the Harpoon anti-ship missile, Tomahawk land attack missile, the new Naval Strike Missile, and the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile are all subsonic missiles. We can count those weapons out.
SM-6 missile rising from a vertical launch silo on the USS John Paul Jones.
What other existing Navy missiles fit the bill? Just one actually: the newish Standard Missile (SM) 6 air defense missile, or SM-6. The latest development of the Standard series of surface-to-air missiles, SM-6 is designed to be launched by U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and Ticonderoga-class cruisers to defend the fleet from cruise missiles, manned aircraft, unmanned aircraft, and even short-range ballistic missiles. SM-6 has a range somewhere around 180 miles. The missile's only drawback is, originally designed to shoot down flying targets, it has a fairly small blast fragmentation warhead.
The SM-6 is indeed supersonic. In fact, it can fly at 3.5 times the speed of sound, or 2,685 miles an hour. The SM-6 also has the fun trick of taking targeting data from other Navy assets, including the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning and control aircraft and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The system, known as Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air or NIFC-CA, allows any of these airborne platforms to relay threat targeting data to SM-6 missiles.
Under a typical engagement, a E-2D Advanced Hawkeye flying ahead of the fleet could detect a swarm of incoming anti-ship cruise missiles. Because the cruise missiles fly low to the surface and radar is a line-of-sight sensor, the fleet’s radars would have difficulty detecting them until they were very close. But a E-2D flying high enough to see them at long range could pass on targeting data to an escorting destroyer, which could launch a volley of SM-6s to shoot down the cruise missiles. This vastly increases the ability of the fleet to defend itself, particularly as anti-ship missiles grow faster over time.
In 2016, then-Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced that SM-6 had an anti-ship capability. The Standard class of missiles has always had a secondary ability to attack ships—several were used in the late 1980s against Iranian warships during Operation Praying Mantis. In 2016, the Navy sank the decommissioned frigate Reuben James (yes, that Reuben James, the star of the Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising) with SM-6 missiles. The same E-2D in the scenario could instead detect a Chinese naval task force and the same destroyer launches the same missiles, only to destroy enemy ships.
The Navy’s Virginia-class submarines each have twelve vertical launch system (VLS) tubes in their nose, behind the sonar array, for Tomahawk land attack missiles. If the Navy can stick an undersea version of SM-6 in those silos, each Virginia sub could suddenly have a battery of 12 Mach 3.5 anti-ship missiles on call. Later versions of the Virginia class will include the Virginia Payload Module, which can accommodate 28 Tomahawk-sized missiles.
Now imagine a new scenario: the U.S. and China are at war. Somewhere in the Pacific, a Virginia-class submarine equipped with a Virginia Payload Module is ordered to a precise set of coordinates, at which point it is to launch all 28 SM-6 missiles on a particular heading. The submarine commander only knows what direction to shoot and that the target is a Chinese naval task force. Once the missiles are in the air, they receive targeting data from a carrier-based F-35 that has been using its stealth to shadow the Chinese warships.
The result is that the Chinese fleet is on the receiving end of 28 supersonic anti-ship missiles that suddenly show up on their radar screens 180 degrees from what they thought was the real threat: an American aircraft carrier. The Chinese fleet has four minutes to detect, track, and destroy all 28 missiles, and then there’s the matter of the huge aerial armada of American carrier-based aircraft that just showed up on their radar screens.
If SM-6 isn’t Sea Dragon, then the real Sea Dragon is likely something very much like it. There really is no other supersonic weapon in the U.S. Navy’s inventory that fits the requirements, and the abilities the missile brings to the table, particularly the ability to take targeting data from other assets, make it a very useful submarine-launched weapon. On the other hand, there might be considerable engineering challenges to make SM-6 fit in a submarine.
Or not. For now it’s just speculation, at least unless the Navy—or China—decides to release details on the real weapon.
Russia has been on the forefront of building unmanned ground vehicles and last week the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that their armed drone tank Uran-9 was tested in Syria.
The Uran-9 is powerfully armed with anti-tank missiles, an automatic cannon, and a machine gun. It can also be reconfigured to carry different weapons like surface-to-air missiles. Additionally, the unmanned vehicle is equipped with advanced optics and targeting systems including a laser warning system and thermal imaging.
While the deployment of the Uran-6, a minesweeping drone, in Syria has been widely reported on, little has been said publicly about the Uran-9, and military observers and analysts have yet to see it in Syria.
“In reality, [the] Uran-9 tests in Syria should have garnered major attention from all major Russian news outlets, given how proud Russian [sic] are of their remote-controlled tank,” said Samuel Bendett, a research analyst specializing in Russian unmanned systems at the Center for Naval Analyses. “Still, such tests may have taken place in secret.”
But the official statement is a clear indication of its use overseas.
The Uran-9 on display during a Victory Day parade in Red Square on May 9, 2018Russian Presidential Press And Information Office
RIA Novosti, a state-run news agency, quoted the Defense Ministry as stating, “The robotic complexes [sic] Uran-6 designed for mine clearance were well proven in Syria, as well as Uran-9, a multifunctional reconnaissance and fire support unit on the battlefield.”
It remains unclear if the Uran-9 saw combat and where in Syria it was deployed, but the area has served as a proving ground for advanced Russian weapons.
Since its Syrian intervention in 2015, the resurgent Russian military has battle tested an arsenal of new weapons including the Su-57 stealth fighter jet, the T-90 battle tank, ship-launched cruise missiles and air defense systems.
“As we helped the brotherly Syrian people, we tested over 200 new types of weapons,” said Vladimir Shamanov, the head of Russian parliament’s Defense Committee and a retired military officer.
While unmanned aerial vehicles have been widely deployed in conflicts around the world, unmanned ground vehicles remain largely untested and the Uran-9 marks a significant step. For instance, the United States, China and several other nations have developed drone tanks, but are still evaluating potential uses and how to overcome the platform’s shortcomings.
With any drone, one of the primary goals is to minimize the risk of injury to service members. But unlike aerial drones—which can easily receive radio and communication signals from its controllers—a ground drone’s signal is often blocked by buildings, hills, or other physical barriers which severely limit its range. This requires an individual to be fairly close to operate the vehicle, exposing them to danger.
Furthermore, it is unclear how these systems will perform in hotly contested areas with heavy electronic warfare that could jam or hijack a controller’s system. In Syria, reports have emerged that Russian jamming has affected the GPS systems of small U.S. surveillance drones, disrupting their operations.
In the case of the Uran-9, it is remotely controlled by an individual from a mobile vehicle that must remain within 1.8 miles. The automatic turret is able to detect and acquire targets, but the ultimate decision to fire rests with the controller.
An Uran-9 unmanned ground combat vehicle during Day of Advanced Technologies of Law Enforcement in 2017Vitaly Kuzmin
This philosophy closely matches the U.S. military’s approach to lethal unmanned systems, which it has dubbed “centaur warfighting” after the half-man, half-horse creature from Greek mythology. The strategy calls for close human control of autonomous weapons in a relationship that enhances an individual’s abilities rather than outright replaces them.
Just as aerial drones have changed modern combat, unmanned ground vehicles will transform how wars are fought on the ground.
Autonomous and semi-autonomous ground vehicles hold significant possibilities for the future of warfare. In conjunction with manned tanks they can provide additional firepower, be deployed in more dangerous areas, fire at enemies or dismantle defenses. Finally, all of this can be done while their operators remain at a safer distance.
According to Russian defense officials, the Uran-9 can provide reconnaissance while navigating rugged or hostile terrain. It can also beam images back on an adversary’s location or even attack a fortified position while it acts as a scout.
As the Uran-9 has shown, technologically the age of drone tanks has arrived, it is only a question of how militaries will use them. So far Russia has been the earliest adopter, and its next moves could have significant implications for other countries and future battle concepts.
Tank-Killing Quadcopter Drone
The armed forces of Belarus have demonstrated a new quadcopter drone that can carry a tank-killing rocket launcher.
The drone carries a RPG-26 single-shot rocket that is remotely fired by the drone operator. And while the drone is of questionable effectiveness as a tank destroyer, it is a deadly harbinger of things to come on the unmanned battlefield.
A video taken on May 18 at the Losvido Training Ground in Belarus shows off the new drone. A quadcopter carrying what appears to be a RPG-26 rocket-propelled grenade launcher takes off and fires the rocket at an unknown target. The video was discovered and posted online by DefenceBlog.
The type of drone is unknown, but it appears to be a quadcopter capable of lifting of at least 7 lbs. The RPG-26 it's carrying is a single-shot rocket launcher. Originally designed during the Cold War for Soviet ground troops, it is a simple tube with a firing switch. Inside is a short-range 72.5-millimeter rocket with a shaped charge warhead. The RPG-26 weighs 6.39 lbs., has a range of about 250 yards, and penetrates between 400 to 500 millimeters of rolled homogeneous steel armor, the standard metric for armor plating.
The RPG-26 can’t penetrate enough armor to take out an American M1 Abrams main battle tank—at least head on, anyway. It probably can’t penetrate the M1’s flank armor, either. However, a rocket-firing drone could conceivably maneuver to shoot at the top or rear of a tank, where armor is thinnest. The RPG-26 could also be dangerous to lighter vehicles such as the M2 Bradley, Stryker combat vehicle, and the new Army Multi Purpose Vehicle (AMPV).
Shooting the rocket is one thing. Aiming it correctly is another thing entirely. The drone appears to lack a useful aiming system and the video doesn’t even bother to show the rocket flying downrange. Ideally, a system like this would have a camera parallel to the path of the rocket, with an aiming point projected on the drone operator’s screen.
The Belarusian tank drone is the start of what could become a very uncomfortable trend for Western tankers. The RPG-29 "Vampir", a 105-millimeter rocket fired from a reusable rocket launcher, actually has disabled Abrams tanks. Although the entire RPG-29 system weighs 27 pounds, the rocket itself weighs just about 12 pounds. If drone makers can triple the payload of an anti-tank drone they could create a creditable tank killer, capable of swiftly charging at enemy armor and then firing crippling shots against their weak spots.
Iron Curtain is an active protection system (APS) designed by the American Company Artis. The Iron Curtain is designed to protect military vehicles and other assets by intercepting threats such as rocket-propelled grenades and other shoulder-launched missiles and rendering them inert.
The Iron Curtain anti-RPG active protection system for light tactical vehicles was tested by the DARPA (U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) mounted on light tactical vehicle Humvee (HMMWV). DARPA in November 2009 awarded Mustang Technologies a contract to integrate Iron Curtain with its Crosshairs counter-shooter system for tests on an MRAP. Cued by the corner-mounted Crosshairs' radar, an optical sensor classifies the incoming threat and selects the aimpoint. When the RPG is just inches from the vehicle, the roof-mounted countermeasure fires straight down, deflagrating the warhead before it can detonate.
The Iron Curtain system can be integrated onto any ground vehicle platform, as well as rotary winged aircraft, watercraft and fixed sites such as buildings.
In August 2016, it was announced that the Company Artis will integrate the Israeli radars from Rada Electronic Industries Ltd. into its Iron Curtain close-in active protection system (APS). The Rada radar has been validated dozens of times in live-fire tests of another hard kill system, the Israeli-developed Iron Fist by state-owned IMI Systems.
According the Artis Company website, manufacturer of the Iron Curtain APS, the system is being tested on the Stryker 8x8 armoured vehicle. The Iron Curtain has also been installed on the Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle, the M-ATV, and the Humvee.
Artis began its APS work on Iron Curtain in 2004 as a DARPA project, and the system quickly succeeded during its first live-fire test in August 2004. Since that time, the system has undergone numerous government testing, and during the 2013 live-fire test — as part of the Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) program — the Iron Curtain system received a perfect score. Additionally, the software architecture for the Artis Iron Curtain APS has been approved via the Joint Services Weapons Safety Review process.
'Gremlins' Will Turn Airplanes Into Flying Aircraft Carriers
According to DARPA, the rising costs of crewed aircraft prompted it to look for a solution that involved reusable uncrewed aircraft. Advances in uncrewed technology prompted the agency to look drones that could be launched by any aircraft, including from the rails of a F-16, the internal weapons bay of a B-1B bomber, or out the cargo ramp of C-130 transport. Here's a DARPA video that illustrates the concept:
At some point, someone at DARPA asked, if a drone were that small, could it be retrieved in midair? That would remove the need for a landing mechanism, whether that be landing gear wheels or some kind of parachute, leaving room for more payload or greater endurance. It also means that a single large aircraft can land with a belly full of Gremlins, instead of a dozen or more Gremlins landing in succession at a nearby air base, creating air traffic congestion.
There’s a precedent for midair recovery. As far back as the 1930s, the U.S. Navy was launching and recovering small F9C-2 Curtiss Sparrowhawk biplanes from its two Akron-class airships. The Akrons could lower a Sparrowhawk into its slipstream via hook, whereupon the pilot detached the plane and it flew away. The airships used their hooks to recover the planes and retract them into the hangars built into these cavernous ships.
The Akrons were meant to provide the eyes and ears of a U.S. Navy battle fleet, and the Gremlins will perform a similar role. In the event of war, a handful of crewed planes could launch dozens of the Gremlins, each focused on gathering information on a specific area or known enemy radar or weapons system. The Gremlins will then send that information upstream to flight crews, giving them the information to attack or avoid enemy defenses. Another possible mission for Gremlins is to jam enemy communications and radars.
Once the drones have accomplished their mission, they will rendezvous with a C-130 Hercules that lowers a capture device. The Gremlins are hooked, powered off, and then hauled aboard the transport aircraft. After refurbishment, refueling, and perhaps a payload swap, they are ready for another mission within 24 hours.
Gremlins are almost certainly just the beginning in the United States' return to flying aircraft carriers. Larger transport aircraft could launch and retrieve larger, more capable drones. As uncrewed aerial vehicle technology becomes more sophisticated expect drones to carry out their own attacks, either with their own weapons or using kamikaze attacks. The descendants of DARPA’s Gremlins might some day hunt enemy aircraft, by themselves or in conjunction with crewed aircraft.


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way the story goes, Kojiro was a famous swordsman in his own right
and was especially proficient with an extra long sword. To battle
Kojiro, Musashi carves a sword out of an oar of a boat to match
the length of Kojiro's sword. He wins the battle in one strike.
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in the US as the secret to the Japanese way of business. While somewhat
misleading in nature, it has been effective in making Musashi and
his book widely known. With various translations available, much
of it describes sword techniques, but contains a good amount of
philosophy flowing throughout the book.
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There’s a lot of back and forth on the question of damage resistance and the role of magic weapons in D&D. Many players are opposed to the antiquated +1 or better to hit mechanic. How can the damage rules provide an underlying mechanical skeleton that describes the physics of the game world without bogging the game down with unhittable monsters or unworkable complexity?
The first question should be who or what are we applying the damage rules to? It makes a big difference if we’re talking about a skeleton’s resistance to piercing damage, a gargoyle’s stone skin or a magical creature’s inherent inability to be harmed by non-magical weapons. Frankly the mechanics from all the editions are viable to some extent or another depending on the world you’re describing.
The D&D Next blog about damage resistance references the tried and true gargoyle. It has stone skin, which in earlier editions thwarted non-magical weapons entirely. That seemed a bit too much, but on the other hand, banging your sword against a rock is going to result in far more damage to the sword than the rock. By the same token, if you use a hammer or a pick or similar weapon derived from masonry tools, it’s the rock that’s going to lose out in the end. If the gargoyle has only a relatively thin skin of rock (rather than being solid rock), the masonry derivatives are going to be that much more effective. Maybe a sword even stands some chance of hurting it. How do we describe this in terms of game mechanics?
Operating from the assumption that the gargoyle has a relatively thin skin comprised of rock, and no other supernatural powers, it’s pretty reasonable to say that the skin of rock protects more than a human’s skin, against just about anything, including bludgeoning weapons, but it’s particularly effective against slashing and most types of piercing (that ‘most types’ of piercing is a sticking point that I’ll discuss more in a second). It’s not really a question of needing magic to hit the creature; you just need certain types of weapons that can handle rock. So a resistance of 5 bludgeoning, and resist 15 piercing/slashing describes the mechanics pretty well. A blacksmith type (18+ str) with a heavy hammer could easily do 5-10 damage to the gargoyle while the same character with a sword would have to hit it really hard to do any damage at all. Magic weapons might have enchantments simulating some sort of armor piercing effect, but otherwise not affect the mechanics.
The reason that hammers and picks were used by knights was because they could pierce armor in a way that swords really couldn’t, particularly plate. That offers another wrinkle and possible solution. 4E gave mundane weapons “qualities,” like brutal. A very reasonable one to use would be armor piercing (though armor defeating might be more appropriate, it doesn’t sound as good). The concept is that the same gargoyle has resist 15 physical (no differentiation between slashing/bludgeoning) and the character’s weapon determines how much of this is overcome. We’ll go with 4E standard of 5 point intervals for the example. A long sword might have no armor piercing while a hammer might have armor piercing 10, and a warpick might have 15. That also handily gets us over the problem of the pick being a piercing weapon where the previous example would resist all of its damage based on that keyword.
2nd edition (and 1st I think, thought’s been a long time since I’ve looked at my 1E books) had rules for the armor piercing effects of various weapons on various armors. No one I know ever used it because it was too much bookkeeping. In addition, it dealt with “to hit v. armor class” rather than effects on damage. I think this type of effect works much better, and incidentally (particularly if applied to armor of all types), it will increase the overall toughness of characters/monsters and allow hit points to fall back down to more manageable levels.
That addresses the gargoyle, but the creatures I always think of for “+1 or better” are werewolves and vampires. I immediately check every new edition’s monster manual to see how the rules deal with these monsters as benchmarks for the entire concept within the edition. Again, it gets back to the question of what world are our rules trying to describe? If you are going up against a werewolf, wolves’ bane and silver are your friends. Is there a vampire plaguing your town? Better get the holy water, wooden stakes, garlic and of course as much sunlight as you can muster. This is one spot where I think that 4E fell down.
For both of these monsters, they did away with traditional resistances entirely and instead gave them regeneration that could be thwarted by certain substances. So instead of a werewolf that cannot be harmed by an iron sword, you have a werewolf that is a little bit harder to kill with an iron sword. But you can still kill it without any silver at all. Its regeneration is 5, so if it took five rounds to kill it, the party would have had to do an extra 25 points of damage. That’s not really a lot, and the werewolf is a lot less scary. Far scarier is having to drop your bastard sword and pull out your silver dagger to go toe to toe with a werewolf. I did it many times in the old days and didn’t always live to tell the tale. Running into a werewolf meant something and the rules fully supported that meaning. Werewolves had character, and more importantly, the character I expected them to have.
That brings us back to the point of the rules. What are we trying to describe? I want my werewolves to be immune (or at least massively resistant) to damage from non-silver weapons. I want to be forced to consider buying a silver dagger on the chance that I might need it to defend myself against Lycanthropy. In that vein, I rather liked 3.5’s take on overcoming resistances – magic did not always trump other weapon materials, like silver or adamantine. That had more flavor backed by rules mechanics. When magic trumped everything and the whole party had magic weapons, the flavor was largely lost.
So, for a werewolf, I would go with DR 20/silver, or DR 10/silver and regeneration 10. 20/silver means you have to hit it really hard to cause any harm at all, and most people will be unable to harm a werewolf without a silver weapon. DR 10/silver with regen 10 works differently. It is still difficult to damage the creature without silver, but not impossible. In addition, the werewolf heals quickly, which fits the flavor that I like. That could cause complications with spells for instance, but again, I rather like the idea of werewolves that are very difficult to kill without silver. Imagine a werewolf on the trail of a party of adventurers. They keep hammering it down and it keeps falling back to the woods to recover, then harassing them again. If they haven’t got any silver, the lone wolf might be able to wear them down until it can take them all. They really need to do something to change the balance of power, quick. Imagine the tension. You just can’t do that with a 4E werewolf. Vampires are in a lot of ways the same thing writ large.
Now we’ve discussed a straight resistance (gargoyle) and 3E style DR (werewolf) — in what way is the old “+1 or better to hit” still relevant? Let’s look at elementals. Of the four basic types, only the earth elemental has a solid body. How about a fire elemental? How is a sword going to harm a fire elemental? Or a water elemental? Or air? You can’t reasonably say that it is. Ever.
That means that straight resistance is out. Hitting it harder is just going to go through it faster. It also doesn’t really make sense (at least without a lot of additional fluff creation) that they are susceptible to certain types of materials. The only thing that makes sense is that a magically imbued weapon somehow disrupts the magical bindings that keep them in this world. Honestly that still feels a little weak to me, but I think we want out fighters to be able engage elementals somehow. DR/magic doesn’t really fit the bill because it is still allowing for a mundane weapon to harm an elemental if it gets hit really, really hard. So, that leaves us with the old “+2 or better.” That was the old mechanic in 1E, though in 3E the original enhancement bonus needed to hit an elemental depended on its power/size. I think that’s still a viable mechanic, and one that I advocate for.
So here we have three different types of monsters using three different types of resistances to weaponry. All of them make sense depending on the type of creature/resistance the rules are trying to describe. Thus all three types, even going back to the early days of “+1 or better” still have their place in the game. I’m really looking forward to where D&DNext takes it.


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1st - 3rd December at 9pm on Channel 5 - Documentary about the bouncing bomb with film shot at Silvermere. A link to information on the programme here: https://www.channel5.com/show/the-dambusters/
|Headline:||1st - 3rd December at 9pm on Channel 5 - Documentary about the bouncing bomb with film shot at Silvermere. A link to information on the programme here: https://www.channel5.com/show/the-dambusters/|
|Summary:|| Some of you may remember that there was a film crew at Silvermere earlier this year filming scenes for a documentary about the bouncing bomb, part of Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid)
Silvermere was used by Barnes Wallis in the development of the 'Upkeep' bomb used on the raid. In 1942, Barnes Wallis and his secretary, rowing champion Amy Gentry, rowed out onto the lake where Wallis fired differently-shaped models from a catapult and Gentry then rowed to retrieve them. Later, in 1943, George Edwards, the manager of the Experimental department used the lake to demonstrate the mechanism for spinning and releasing the bombs.
|Detail:|| Information on the development of the 'Upkeep bomb' here:
and Operation Chastise here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
and here for the article on Silvermere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvermere
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Legacy Era: A Closer Look, Part 2- Bits and Pieces - Mods
Posted by: Enceladus1 on 03-26-2011 @ 08:42 - Source: http://www.moddb.com/mods/legacy-era-mini-mod
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Hello once again! This time it has only been about a month since the last news article instead of several months. Also, I'm very happy to report that the mod has now reached 150 thousand hits!
This is update is similar to the last one in the sense that it covers a variety of topics in one sweeping article. There are four major things that will be discussed: the Confederation's new weapons; the Imperious-class Star Destroyer; the Emancipator-class Heavy Carrier; and then the overall status of the mod. In addition to these things, there are a few minor things also taken notice of.
Okay, well the first thing that will be gone over is information about the CR's new weapons. For the CR, I had a great amount of liberty in developing their armed forces, which made it really fun.
I really enjoyed creating new projectiles that looked awesome for this faction. I actually went and created a whole separate projectiles file for them, so that the other three projectile files
(the vanilla FOC one, the one for "Pre-Legacy Era" projectiles, and the one for "Legacy Era" projectiles) would not get too cluttered. So, taken from the Confederation's projectile list, the current projectiles are as follows:
Plasma Cannons of varying strength from fighter level to heavy capital ship strength. They come in blue, red-orange, yellow, and purple colors. They are slightly more powerful than their respective turbolaser counterparts.
Plasma Torpedoes, from fighter bomber strength to a capital ship strength, being somewhat stronger than a proton torpedo is. These are light blue.
Plasma Mortars, with a blue colored bomber level form, and the more common medium and heavy variants found on capital ships. These large packets of flying energy are blue-purple or yellow-green in color. They are even more destructive than the other plasma weapons.
Mass Drivers, which can be found in light versions on fighters or bombers and more powerful medium or heavy versions on capital ships. They deal damage to shields, but then partially bypass them to cause some damage to the hull as well.
Disruptor Cannons come in two colors: purple and red-orange. They are rarely found on fighters/bombers, but more commonly on capital ships in medium and heavy strength. These have a higher destructive potential than plasma cannons.
Disruptor Torpedoes-These packets of energetic particles are purple in color and even more potent than plasma torpedoes. They can be found on advanced fighters and bombers, but more often on larger vessels.
Disintegration Weapons, which are a new and extremely lethal form of explosive. Upon detonation a sphere of energy is created like a thermal detonator, but then collapses and draws in surrounding material. It immediately explodes again after collapsing to deal even more damage. Rarely found on bombers, these weapons are mostly used on capital ships.
Proton Cannons, available in either a beam form (like seen on LAATs and the Death Stars) or burst form (like a standard turbolaser shot). These energy weapons are incredibly deadly, comparable to the destruction of a disintegration weapon. The beams are capable inflicting massive damage in a matter of seconds, and can split a corvette in two very quickly. Likewise, the burst form is just as powerful, but damage is not done as rapidly.
Gravity Bombs, hyper-lethal explosives that are more powerful than disintegration bombs. These create a super-intense gravity field upon explosion, into which the surrounding materials are drawn into and broken down on the atomic level. Think of these as being like the Dovin Basals once used by the Yuuzhan Vong, creating miniature blackholes. This is the rarest and most powerful Confederate weapon.
With that out of the way, it's time for some other things.
I realized that details concerning the Imperious-class Star Destroyer have never been fully disclosed, and I apologize. To rectify this, I am now going to reveal the unknown information. This includes its stats such as hardpoints, starfighter complement, etc., similar to how I've done it in the past with other ships.
Imperious-class Star Destroyer
Length: 3,200 meters
5 Proton Torpedo Launchers
4 Advanced Heavy Quadruple Turbolaser Turrets
5 Medium Turbolaser Turrets
12 Medium Ion Cannons
12 Medium Turbolasers
8 Heavy Turbolasers
12 Predator-class Starfighter Squadrons
10 Neutralizer-class Bomber Squadrons
6 Fury-class Sith Fighter Squadrons
5 Reaper-class Assault Fighter Squadrons
4 Blitz-class Asssault Bomber Squadrons
Tech Level Required: 4 or higher
Details: The Imperious-class Star Destroyer is an impressive battleship, measuring 3.2 km long. Compared to the Pellaeon-class, the Imperious-class is larger and more powerful, as well as having better shielding, armor, and weapons. The Imperious-class started life as the answer to Darth Krayt's demand for a new class of warship that could overpower any other warship type used by the enemies of the Empire, and at the time it appeared to be the answer. Despite the fact that the prototype was captured by the GA Remnant in the Battle of Mon Calamari, orders for production of more vessels quickly followed.
Boasting an impressive armament and superier shielding, the Imperious is at least equal in potency to three GA Remnant Sycthe-class Battlecruisers; this all depends on how competent you are at commanding it. Its large fighter/bomber complement adds to the severe threat posed by this vessel.
Another important class of vessel that has not been addressed is the Emancipator-class Heavy Carrier utilized by the Galactic Alliance Remnant. This is something that has been asked about and I have skirted around directly answering questions relating to it, for which I also apologize.
Now without further ado, I present to you the Emancipator.
Emancipator-class Heavy Carrier
Length: 2,600 meters
4 Heavy Proton Torpedo Launchers
2 Extra Heavy Turbolaser Batteries
8 Enhanced Heavy Turbolaser Batteries
4 Heavy Ion Cannon Batteries
12 CF9 Crossfire Squadrons
12 BB-2 Starfire Fighter-bomber Squadrons
8 X-83 TwinTail Starfighter Squadrons
8 I4 Ionizer Starfighter Squadrons
6 RC-2 Twilight Scoutship Squadrons
Tech Level Required: 4 or higher
Details: The Emancipator-class Heavy Carrier is the successor of the Mon Calamari Heavy Carrier that was used against the original Confederation during the Second Galactic Civil War. It is the Alliance's own counter-response to the Krayt Empire's Imperious-class Star Destroyer. This warship is a serious threat to the Krayt Empire's naval forces, being more than capable of holding its own against multiple Imperial ships in combat. While at 2.6 km long it is shorter than the Imperious-class, its shields are actually somewhat stronger thanks to advanced Mon Calamari engineering, though its weapons systems are definitely not as powerful. Its three massive hangars hold hundreds of fighters and bombers, which help to make up for whatever shortcoming it has in weaponry.
The fourth portion of this deals with the status of the mod. Rest assured that it is not dying, but growing daily. The lack of recent visual updates comes as a result of the current work which is going on-mainly coding to be specific. There usually isn't much to take pictures of with this but when I get the chance for a good shot I take it. There are multiple different portions of work that need to be completed in order for the entire mod to be finished. Some, such as skirmish are at least two-thirds of the way finished, while others are almost completely finished, such as the projectiles. Another thing such as Galactic Conquest has barely any work completed, but fortunately that will not take too much time because I will be receiving help in coding that.
So take this as a generalization-the mod is about three-fifths of the way done.
Now there are just a few miscellaneous things that remain to be addressed.
-A-Wings have finally received their concussion missiles
-Planning has started on implenting possible additional structures for GC such as supplemental space defenses. These range from fighter bay stations to mining facilites, commercial centers and industrial depots. Nothing is definite yet, as this is purely in the imaginative stage.
-Maps for the Survival "gametype" have been started on
(Below is a prototype map)
That wraps up this article. The next articles will go into detail about the heroes of the factions.
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Iranian candidate says nuclear deal failed to lift sanctions
An Iranian presidential candidate said Sunday the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers has failed to lift sanctions or improve the country’s economy.
Mostafa Mirsalim, a conservative, told a news conference that President Hassan Rouhani’s outreach to the West had failed, adding that “sanctions remained in place and were even intensified.”
Under the nuclear deal, international sanctions were lifted in exchange for Iran curbing its uranium enrichment, but separate U.S. sanctions related to Iran’s ballistic missile program have been tightened.
Mirsalim said that, if elected, he would abide by the nuclear deal. But he said U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration had already undermined the agreement, without elaborating.
Last week, the State Department certified that Iran was complying with the nuclear deal, but Trump, a longtime critic of the agreement, said Tehran was violating the spirit of the accord and that the U.S. might withdraw from it.


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They started out with a .22 LR from a .22 revolver. It penetrated about 5 inches into the sand.
They continued the test using 9mm Ball, .45 ACP, 5.56mm XM-193 Ball out of a 20″ AR15, 7.62 X 51 from a FAL, a 12 gauge slug, and finally .223 and .308 rifle rounds.
None of the rounds penetrated more than 6”!
Oh, so it will be like a removable partition/safety wall. I can imagine that.Revi wrote:I want it to be portable, so I figure I can always dump the gravel out and use it somewhere else.
Ludi wrote:Thinking about dinners of the future:
They are skinny from the drought.
Ludi wrote:Thank you very much for that assessment!
We actually have some late babies which were born at the end of the drought, but probably to younger moms.
We also have some spike bucks and a couple with decent racks. Any suggestions about them?
The bucks are significantly more shy than the does.
Ludi wrote:Thank you for those thoughts.
vtsnowedin wrote:Have you bought a deer rifle yet? I remember you were considering getting one a while back.
Ludi wrote:vtsnowedin wrote:Have you bought a deer rifle yet? I remember you were considering getting one a while back.
My husband bought a Remington 870 shotgun. He'll be shooting at very close range with slugs. The neighbors are too nearby for a rifle to be appropriate.
I won't be using any guns, but I will be the one cutting up the critters.
Ludi wrote:He'll be shooting into a hillside to the right of the picture there, so ideally there wouldn't be danger of a stray bullet. But that field beyond the deer sometimes has cattle in it, and we have neighbor houses to the north and south of our place.
I have not butchered anything larger than a turkey, so I expect a deer to be quite a challenge. We have an A-frame and tackle to hang it with, and I've been looking at various "how-to" info on the internets.
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The stun effect makes the opponent’s character unable to use his skill. List of characters who have stun skills. From SR to SSR
Child Emperor is one of the best SSR characters. He has a skill that attack each enemy in a row and have 50% chance to afflict stun to main target for 1 round.
Sky King is the sr character of a faction monster. The ultimate skill hits one column with 50% chance to afflict stun effect to main target for 1 rounds.
Lightning Max attacks one opponent and gives a burn effect and also a stun effect.
Hammerhead have a stun skill that will attack just one enemy and 50% chance to afflict stun.


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We saw the demise of the “Russian Woodpecker” over-the-horizon (OTH) radar after the disaster at Chernobyl. Now there is a possibility of more QRM with the advent of modern sophisticated OTH radar systems being tested and built. While understanding the need for defense reasons, countries are not concerned about interference to radio hams.
- Australia is developing OTH radar for ocean surveillance by Bradley Perrett, Melbourne. (Condensed from Aviation Week & Space Technology, May 23, 2016.
- Australia is developing a specialist over-the-horizon (OTH) sky-wave radar as a means of detecting targets perhaps 1,900 miles away. Australia already has probably the world’s most advanced OTH radars, three installations in the Outback that form the Jindalee network. They work best in aircraft but also ship detection.
- Improved mode-selective OTH radars would strengthen Australia’s contribution to the U.S. ocean surveillance picture.
China also uses OTH radars, apparently of conventional design. If Jindalee can detect a 187-foot patrol boat, a 1,000 foot carrier should show up on Chinese screens rather nicely.
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- There have been various cases in which people (regularly young people) holding sensible looking Airsoft guns were shot by police who thought the weapons were genuine.
- Since Airsoft guns are regularly seen as toys, youngsters owning the weapons now and then don’t understand (or enough assess) the dangers presented by just holding such a “toy.”
Further, whatever episodes of toy gun wounds or fatalities were accounted for “most likely don’t speak to a precise or far reaching announcing.” However, Airsoft gun wounds, their utilization in carrying out violations, or their mixed up distinguishing proof by the general population and police, all happen on a practically week after week premise.
Fucili softair – Laws and Regulations
The dangers and results of Airsoft gun use have not gone unnoticed by the law. Airsoft is viewed as illicit in different nations, for example, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore, and a few nations like Canada restrict the importation of “copy” Airsoft guns.
Notwithstanding, government importation laws in the United States essentially necessitate that all Airsoft guns transported inside or brought into the nation have barrels with a base 6mm wide burst orange tip, to stay away from perplexity with genuine guns.
Most retailers of Airsoft guns have disclaimers expressing that their Airsoft guns are sold with an orange tip, and that it is unlawful to expel the orange tip.
Besides, people in the U.S. must be 18 years old or more seasoned to buy an Airsoft gun. Then again, Airsoft guns are not delegated guns and are legitimate for use by all ages under government law. In any case, a few districts and states place confinements on Airsoft guns.
- New York City
- Washington D.C.
- San Francisco
- parts of Michigan
ban Airsoft guns altogether.
A few nations have explicit limitations on Airsoft guns, for example, greatest gag speed principles, confinements on utilization of trademarks of genuine guns, and required utilization of ‘unlikely’ shading to recognize Airsoft guns from real guns.
At long last, states, for example, California have laws that make it a wrongdoing to shake a copy gun out in the open. Moreover, people utilizing an Airsoft or copy gun to carry out violations will perpetually be treated just as they had utilized a genuine gun.
Airsoft Guns – the Bottom Line
Outrageous consideration ought to be utilized consistently with Airsoft guns, and it is ideal to treat Airsoft guns as a genuine gun while taking care of and transporting them. As noted above, neglectful treatment of these guns can prompt different scopes of criminal outcomes, and more awful, physical damage or passing.
On the off chance that minors are to be included with Airsoft gun use, grown-up supervision and defensive rigging are a flat out need. At last, Airsoft guns ought not be utilized in unenclosed, open zones.
From a lawful viewpoint, before anybody buys an Airsoft gun they should initially investigate their neighborhood and state laws administering the proprietorship and utilization of the guns.
Educated and trustworthy neighborhood vendors of the guns will give this data, however it is significant for the purchaser to dependably double check with their nearby law authorization offices as well as a nearby customer items lawyer.


The handgun was prepared in late 1930, and at the beginning of 1931 the first pistols were ready for testing. Initially it was named WiS (an acronym of the Polish designers' names), later the name was changed to Vis, meaning "force" in Latin, with the wz. abbreviation for wzór ("model").
The tests proved that the handgun was very accurate and stable (due to its size and mass, most stresses are absorbed and not passed on the shooter), while at the same time remaining reliable after firing more than 6,000 rounds. The Vis was generally regarded as one of the best military pistols of that period. Production started in the state armory Fabryka Broni in Radom in late 1935, and the following year it was introduced as the standard weapon of Polish infantry and cavalry officers. Successively, other units were to be equipped, and by 1942 all other handguns were scheduled to be withdrawn from service. By mid-1938, it was introduced to the armored and air forces. Before the Invasion of Poland, approximately 49,400 (out of 90,000 ordered) were delivered to the army. There was also a small information series of .45 ACP version, with 7 round magazine, but they were not produced in greater series. A .22 LR variant also existed, but no details are known, and its series could not be big.
After the Polish defeat in 1939, the Germans took over the Radom Armory and continued production of the Vis under the new name of 9 mm Pistole 645(p), which was for some reason often rendered as P 35(p) (the suffix "p" means "polnische") (the German pistols of the first series had inscriptions VIS Mod.35 and P.35(p) on the left side). Up to 1945, between 312,000 and 380,000 were produced and used by the German paratroopers and police.
Fearing that Polish technicians working in the armory might supply the Home Army with the weapons, the Germans moved production of barrels and final assemble to the Steyr works in Austria. However, underground production of Vis barrels was started in Warsaw, and several hundred Vis pistols were assembled of parts smuggled from the factory, delivered to the Home Army and used extensively during the Warsaw Uprising, among others. Vis pistols made after 1939 were issued in four different series, each with small modifications to simplify production. In late 1944, all production was moved to the Steyr works in Austria, where the last simplified model of the fourth series was produced (with no inscriptions at all, apart from bnz signature). The Vis remained in production until April 1945. Generally, the wartime Vis were of much lower quality than the original, and further degrading towards the end of the war.
After the war, production of the pistol was not continued, as the Army of the People's Republic of Poland used the SovietTT-33 pistol, produced in the former Fabryka Broni in Radom due to Warsaw Pact regulations. It was considered much inferior to the Vis, especially in ergonomics and reliability, but political considerations and Soviet influence were decisive.
In August 1992, the Łucznik Arms Factory in Radom reintroduced the Vis pistol and produced a small series of some 27 pistols on the basis of the original plans and specifications, mainly for the collectors' market


I can clearly tell you which one penetrated the white oak further. Lambdebois was the White Oak green or dried wood? I got to shoot the two handguns into some layers of white oak we slapped together. Find More Posts by winshooter. I'd also like to see what these bullets would do to a bear black bear. Quote: Will it penetrate both shoulders of a boar? The BB gr mag went half way through the third board I see tests for 44 mags and on up everywhere.
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On November 4th, a radar technology demonstration took place at the ZalaZONE Automotive Proving Ground in cooperation with the Institute for Transport Sciences, HungaroControl and MouldTech Systems.
The ZalaZONE Automotive Proving Ground is not only suitable for testing ground vehicles, but also drones and related technologies. The growth in the number and role of drones has created a need for modern technological developments at all levels of the drone ecosystem.
As Dr. Dániel Rohács, President of the Hungarian Drone Coalition stressed, by 2025, 70,000 drone flights are expected to take place in Hungary every year, which poses challenging problems for example in safety, security, communication, and synergies with other – and more particularly – autonomous vehicles. In this environment, SAAB – one of the world’s leading companies in the development of defence technology and radar technology – could provide the sound technology for drone detection and help to meet the safety targets.
Dr. Zsolt Szalay, Head of ZalaZONE Research and Innovation said that the ZalaZONE Proving Ground is particularly focused on the automation of ground and air vehicles and their synergies, making ZalaZONE an ideal location for testing drone radar capabilities.
The demonstration at the ZalaZONE Automotive Proving Ground on 4 November 2022 will include a technical demonstration of the SAAB Giraffe 1X radar with the purpose to test the drone detection capabilities in the airspace around ZalaZONE.
Conventional radar systems usually have problems with detecting and tracking small UAVs operating at slow speeds and, even if detected, distinguishing them from birds and other elements in the surrounding environment.
The Giraffe 1X enhanced UAV–drone tracking mode function is capable of coping with the challenges of the UAV threat. It detects and tracks even small UAVs, with a false alarm rate reduced to an absolute minimum. It can be used for a wide range of applications: monitoring airport flight zones, local protection of own forces and while on the move, camp or critical infrastructure protection, and UAV surveillance of larger areas.
During the demo, we will test different flight characteristics, drone sizes and compositions, as well as potential use cases. We will also investigate the interaction with the built environment in the smart city zone in the ZalaZONE area, potential communication, navigation problems and characteristics.
UAVs and drone pilots for testing were provided by ZalaZONE and its strategic partner MouldTech Systems Ltd. HungaroControl investigated the integrability of radar data for air navigation systems, while the Institute for Transport Sciences, as the coordinator the Hungarian Drone Coalition ensured the necessary technical background. ADS-B equipments were given by Duplitec. The ADS-B transponders were made available by MILTECH Haditechnikai és Informatikai Zrt. with the contribution and support of the American company SAGETECH.


A total of six people, a family of five and an unrelated teenager, were all shot at a Florida gun range in what was obviously a total accident.
The shooting happened early Saturday afternoon at the Forest Road 88 Shooting Range. According to police officers, a 21-year-old man who of course knows how to safely handle a firearm, was loading an antique shotgun. The shotgun reportedly discharged accidentally. The shot apparently hit the concrete floor, and then ricocheted, spraying shotgun pellets through the air, hitting six people...
...The Ocala shooting range, where the accident occurred..."is unsupervised" (Sarcasm alert!) ...because anybody who is able to pass the stringent vetting to purchase a firearm has obviously trained diligently in how to handle a weapon that can take someone's life with the mere twitch of a finger. Why would anyone need to supervise?
eye'm thynkin': Those are some very lucky people.
Added note: In 2005, a man accidentally killed himself at this same unsupervised shooting range while he was "practicing cowboy action shooting."
Read more about the shotgun accident at


If you’re a gun enthusiast, then you know that there are a ton of different firearms out there. But have you heard of the Draco Gun? It’s a compact, semi-automatic pistol that has been gaining popularity among gun enthusiasts for its unique design and impressive performance.
One of the reasons why the Draco AK 47 is a must-have for gun enthusiasts is its versatility. It’s small enough to be easily maneuverable and concealable, making it a great option for home defense or personal carry. But despite its compact size, the Draco Gun still packs a punch with its 30-round magazine capacity and impressive accuracy. Whether you’re at the range or in a self-defense situation, this gun is a reliable and powerful option.
Another reason why the Draco Gun is a must-have for gun enthusiasts is its unique design. The pistol features a classic AK-style design, with its signature curved magazine and short barrel. It’s a perfect option for those who want to have a firearm that stands out from the crowd and has a bit of history behind it. Plus, the Draco Gun is highly customizable, allowing gun enthusiasts to add their own personal touch with accessories like sights, grips, and even suppressors.
Overall, the Draco Gun is a must-have for any gun enthusiast looking for a versatile, reliable, and unique firearm. Its compact size and impressive performance make it a great option for self-defense and personal carry, while its AK-style design and customizable options make it a standout piece in any collection. So, if you’re looking to add something new to your collection, be sure to check out the Draco Gun!
Where Can I Buy A Draco Gun?
Hey there gun enthusiasts! If you’re looking to buy a Draco gun, there are a few options available to you.
Firstly, you may want to check out your local gun stores or firearms dealers. They may have a Draco gun in stock or be able to order one for you. It’s always great to support your local businesses, so give them a call or stop by to see if they can help you out.
If you prefer to shop online, you can also check out various gun retailers on the internet. Make sure you do your research on the seller and check their reviews before making a purchase. Some popular online gun retailers include Gun Broker, Armslist, and Buds Gun Shop.
Another option is to attend gun shows or exhibitions. These events often have a wide variety of firearms for sale, including the Draco gun. Plus, it’s a great opportunity to meet other gun enthusiasts and learn more about different types of guns.
Just remember, always make sure you follow proper procedures and laws when purchasing a firearm. Stay safe and happy shopping!
Is The Draco Gun A Good Choice For Self-defense?
Hey there gun enthusiasts! Today, let’s talk about the Draco gun and whether it’s a good choice for self-defense.
For those who may not know, the Draco gun is a Romanian-made AK47 style pistol. It’s compact, easy to maneuver, and packs a serious punch. But, is it a good option for self-defense?
First and foremost, the Draco gun is a powerful firearm. It’s not something to be taken lightly and should only be used by experienced shooters who are comfortable handling such a weapon. If you’re new to firearms or haven’t had proper training, it’s probably not the best choice for you.
Secondly, the Draco gun is not the most concealable option out there. It’s a fairly large and bulky firearm, so if you’re looking for something to carry concealed on a daily basis, you may want to consider something smaller.
That being said, if you’re looking for a firearm to keep at home for self-defense, this gun could be a good option. Its size makes it easy to handle in close quarters, and its power could help deter or stop an intruder.
Ultimately, whether the Draco gun is a good choice for self-defense depends on your personal circumstances and preferences. As with any firearm, it’s important to get proper training and follow all safety protocols.
Who Manufactures The Draco Gun?
If you’re a fan of compact and powerful firearms, then you’ve probably heard of the Draco gun. This little beast is a favorite among gun enthusiasts all over the world, and for good reason. But who actually manufactures the gun?
Well, the answer to that question is pretty straightforward. The gun is actually manufactured by the Romanian firearms company, Cugir. Cugir has been in the business of making guns for over 200 years, so it’s safe to say that they know what they’re doing.
The Draco gun is actually based on the Romanian PM md. 90, which is a military-issue rifle. However, the Draco is much smaller and more compact than its predecessor, making it perfect for use in close-quarters combat situations.
One of the things that makes this gun so popular among century arms is its unique design. It has a mini barrel than most rifles, which gives it a more compact and maneuverable feel. Additionally, it features a semi auto folding stock, which allows you to easily store and transport it.
So, there you have it. The Draco gun is manufactured by the Romanian firearms company, Cugir. If you’re looking for a compact and powerful firearm that’s perfect for close-quarters combat situations, the Draco is definitely worth checking out.
In conclusion, the Draco gun is a unique and powerful firearm that has gained popularity among gun enthusiasts around the world. Manufactured by the Romanian firearms company, Cugir, the Draco gun is based on a military-issue rifle and features a shorter barrel and folding stock for easy storage and maneuverability. While it may not be the most concealable option, the Draco gun and muzzle could be a great choice for home defense. As always, it’s important to receive proper training and follow safety protocols when handling any firearm.
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PSA upper CMMG lower. Ares armament bcg. BCM charging handle. Magpul CTR stock. No cosmetic damage other than marks on the buffer tube from adjusting the stock. Well taken care of, and a solid go to rifle. Pictured with a Eotech 517, the sight is like new in box and the rifle is available with or without the sight. $450 for the rifle without the Eotech, $800 with the Eotech. FTF only northshore...