USA and Russia are integrating more multi-use non-nuclear EMP weapons and China is trying to catch up. Multi-use EMP weapons are being added as a standard military weapon by the USA and Russia.
Russia has developed super-high-frequency gun capable of deactivating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and the warheads of precision weapons at an impact range of ten kilometers (6 miles) which ensures 360 degrees of perimeter defense.Russia’s United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation (UIMC), part of Rostec Corporation, has announced that it developed a super-high-frequency gun for BUK missile systems.Defence manufacturer UIMC, part of the state-owned Rostec Corporation, announced that it would be demonstrating the power of the weapon at the Army-2015 conference attended by Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. “The new system is equipped with a high-power relativistic generator and reflector antenna, management and control system, and a transmission system which is fixed on the chassis of BUK surface-to-air missile systems. Russia's EMP ground vehicle The US has EMP on drones, bombs and missiles. Navy’s Boat Drones Pack Hunt Like Wolves on Water.
The US military is building a droid (er, drone) army.
You’ve likely heard of flying drones—but the robot arms race won’t end there. The Navy recently demonstrated a pack of autonomous boats performing defensive and offensive swarm tactics. Why robots? The military hopes to augment its human forces with superhuman robotic abilities, while at the same time putting fewer soldiers in harm’s way. The Navy’s autonomous boat program was motivated, in part, by the 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole, in which a boat brimming with explosives rammed the destroyer’s hull. In the future, armed autonomous boats might approach such threats, take fire without risking human lives, and if necessary, neutralize or destroy the adversary.
The test operations—which took place in August but were only recently revealed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR)—involved up to 13 standard rigid-hulled inflatable boats using automation technology originally developed for NASA’s Mars rovers. IEDs and Rocket Propelled Grenade means heavy exoskeletons make no sense. Military Exoskeleton's will be built in the future, but they are for special situations and not large scale combat. * for military special forces and police SWAT teams there is the case for high powered military exoskeletons * for regular soldiers the need is for soft and light weight and lower power exoskeletons (Warrior Web) which would prevent soldiers from being injured carrying around heavy loads The need would be to drive down the cost and weight of HULC and Warrior web systems High energy density batteries, improved materials and lowering the energy demands of the exoskeleton are what is needed for a practical relatively common exoskeleton Is does not make sense to put too many heavier weapons and armor onto exoskeleton systems.
We have seen in recent wars that the rocket propelled grenade (RPG) and IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) can defeat armor in vehicles that weight about 4 tons. In terms of real world weapons against movie situations. RPGs can penetrate 10 inches of armor. Hammers Slammers like Nuclear powered hovertanks would technically be feasible for the late 2020s and 2030s. Terrestrial energy is trying to develop integral molten salt nuclear fission reactors.
These nuclear reactors would have about 20-200 times less volume than conventional nuclear fission reactors. The US, Europe and China are trying to develop supercritical carbon dioxide turbines that would have 100 times less volume than regular steam turbines. The Hammer's Slammers Science fiction nuclear hovertank would be enabled with the two technologies that are under development (molten salt reactors and supercritical CO2 turbines. By shrinking the nuclear reactor and the turbine by 100 times, plenty of other vehicles are made possible. Various nuclear ships and submarines can be revamped.
The 60 MW thermal IMSR would be the size of a fairly deep hottub. An M1 Abrams tank weighs 67 tons and has an external volume of about 83 cubic meters. Hammers slammers imagines 170 ton nuclear fusion powered tanks. Fearsome UK Robot Aircraft Is Semi-Autonomous and Will Fly in 2013. There’s a robotic arms race on.
We recently covered the US Navy’s X-47B drone, a stealth jet capable of landing autonomously on an aircraft carrier. Well, not to be outdone by its trans-Atlantic ally, the UK’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) is said to be soon testing a superdrone called Taranis. The drone is designed to fly intercontinental missions at supersonic speeds, undected by radar—and almost completely free of human direction. Named after the Celtic god of thunder, Taranis is a £142.5 million ($223.25 million) project under development by British aerospace firm BAE and the MoD since December 2006.
BAE says Taranis will “push the boundaries” of stealth and autonomy. According to International Business Times, “Taranis will incorporate technology allowing it to use on-board computers to perform airborne manoeuvres, avoid threats and identify targets.” While images of remote-controlled toy planes and quadrotors may enter your head when you imagine drones—Taranis is no toy.