Hypersonic weapons

The US is speeding up development of these. (pun intended)  As Instapundit says, Faster, please. (that pun is intended as well.)

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A ceramic hand grenade

At the end of the war in the Pacific, the Japanese were cut off from resources and desperately trying to improvise weapons.  One that I was unaware before yesterday was the ceramic hand grenade.  It is an interesting story. (h/t to Jeff “Inch High” Groves for the pointer.)

EMP weapons

I’ve always believed that any all out attack on the US would begin with a powerful EMP inducing nuclear blast high in the atmosphere over the US.  This report suggests a number of nations are developing such weapons.  China would obviously be the biggest concern.

Aircraft mounted laser weapons

Interesting thoughts on the coming use of aircraft mounted laser weapons.

Rods from God

I’ve been interested in this concept ever since I real about it in a Pournelle sci-fi novel.  With space lift becoming so much cheaper, I can see this becoming viable in the next decade.  The US needs to be the one to do it first.

Carl Gustav

Looks like the Army really likes the Swedish Carl Gustav.

Russia’s weapons woes

A nice article from Strategypage on why much of the Russian military is a paper tiger.  I suspect the truth is even worse than these reports.

Interesting developments

The U.S. Army is bringing back the recoiless rifle.

M60 tanks are getting an upgrade.

 

New Chinese weapon

Story here.  Hypersonics may be a dead end if laser based ABMs are successfully developed.

High tech

Light being turned into matter.

A deploy-able laser weapon.