INCREDIBLE MODERN WEAPONS

ELECTRONIC SPY FLY - SMALL MACHINE FLY that can literally fly and look like a bug, yet lets the controller know what is happening. Also there are COCKROACHES that can be used as spies. Scientists are developing a remote-controlled cockroach that can carry a tiny camera and microphone for spying missions with a microchip surgically implanted in its back and electrodes connected to its brain, scientists can make the cockroach turn left, right, crawl forward or leap backwards.

CONCRETE SUBMARINES - C-subs will fight differently. Conventional submarines prowl the seas. On a typical patrol, a C-sub will sink offshore, waiting for enemy ships to pass overhead. Then it will fire vertical-launch torpedoes. Because concrete is strong in compression, C-subs could sink well below the 1800-ft. "crush depth" for steel, according to the British Ministry of Defense (MOD). And on sonar displays, the concrete will be hard to distinguish from a sandy sea bottom.

DAISY CUTTER BOMB - The 15,000-pound BLU-82 - nicknamed "daisy-cutter" because of the shape of its tremendous impact - is believed to be the world's largest non-nuclear bomb. Filled with a slurry of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder to ignite a blast, the bomb incinerates everything within up to 600 yards, costs about $27,000 and is about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.

ELECTRONIC BOMB - Tested in Sweden. This devise literally melts and disables any electronic circuitry within its range. The bomb can activate and no one knows that it is there. A very devastating kind of weapon.

ELECTRO MAGNETIC RAIL GUN - travels at the speed of 6 kilometers per second) (can travel a total of 250 kilometers) 10 times farther than conventional cannons. Eventually they want to develop this to travel up to the speed of light. They also want to install this weapon in fighter planes.

MIND CONTROL - Artificial telepathy. Machines have been developed that can literally (from a distance) control a person's mind.

NEUTRON BOMB - In a suit case. The United States government has been concerned about these bombs ending up in terrorist's hands. These bombs destroy only living animals (people included).

X-RAY MACHINES - A police officer can aim the hand-held unit into a crowd up to 90 feet away. The device can even be used outside a room to scan individuals inside.

WEATHER CHANGES - HAARP - Electro magnetic weather weapons can cause Earthquakes & volcanoes. (The electronics genius, Dr. Tesla bragged about being able to use his technology to "split the earth in half" and in producing a "death beam" of unimaginable magnitude. This weapon can also cause, Snow-Hail-Tornadoes & Tidal waves. Rainfall that produces flooding. "Climate Changes that could devastate an enemy nation's agriculture" -- one of the devastating actions that a UN Treaty outlaws is damage to the "biota" of a nation. The word, "biota" refers to the "animal and plant life of a particular region considered as a total ecological entity". [Dictionary] In other words, these Weather Control capabilities can wipe out an entire ecological system?! This revelation is astounding! If the goal of the scientists wielding these weather weapons, is to totally annihilate a civilization, they can easily do so, it appears!

The June 5, 1977, New York Times described the great earthquake which destroyed Tangshan, China on July 28, 1976, and killed over 650,000 people.

"Just before the first tremor at 3:42 am, the sky lit up like daylight. The multi-hued lights, mainly white and red, were seen up to 200 miles away. Leaves on many trees were burned to a crisp and growing vegetables were scorched on one side, as if by a fireball."

SMART - Criminal justice is really going high-tech these days. A new satellite system will enable authorities to monitor and track lawbreakers continuously and constantly.

ACOUSTIC PSYCHO-CORRECTION - The Russians claimed that this device involves "the transmission of specific commands via static or white noise bands into the human subconscious without upsetting other intellectual functions." Experts said that demonstrations of this equipment have shown "encouraging" results "after exposure of less than one minute," and has produced "the ability to alter behavior on willing and unwilling subjects."

UNMANNED GLOBAL REACH - Recently an unmanned autonomous aircraft, the Global Hawk, flew 8,600 miles from Edwards Air Force base in California to Australia. This flight was not remotely controlled. It was autonomous. The aircraft taxied out, took off, flew its proper course and landed unassisted by a human operator. A few weeks later it returned the same way. Now it's operating over Afghanistan.

FIREPOWER! - One B2 bomber can presently hit 16 independent targets on a single mission. That's nothing short of amazing. Soon, due to smaller munitions, that figure will be 80. Yet even smaller, more accurate bombs will soon follow those, allowing a single B2 to carry 324 bombs. The operational fleet of 18 B2's will be able to carry 5,824 individually targeted weapons!

MICROWAVE BEAM - Tests of a controversial weapon that is designed to heat people's skin with a microwave beam have shown that it can disperse crowds. The 3-millimetre wavelength radiation penetrates only 0.3 millimetres into the skin, rapidly heating the surface above the 45 ?in threshold. At 50 ?hey say the pain reflex makes people pull away automatically in less than a second - it's said to feel like fleetingly touching a hot light bulb. Someone would have to stay in the beam for 250 seconds before it burnt the skin, the lab says, giving "ample margin between intolerable pain and causing a burn".

ROBOTS - Coming to a military theater near you: the "robo lobster." The eight-legged underwater robot, loaded with sensors that can see and even smell, will be used to find landmines buried along potentially dangerous coasts. Also on deck is a sister system, dubbed the robo crab, an electronic crustacean that will climb up on the beach and beam back images of what soldiers would encounter when they venture onshore. On dry land, the Army is making strides with vehicles that could provide surveillance or supply troops with ammunition. Some could even put up a smoke screen and throw a net over the approaching enemy. Military planners see such vehicles, which vary in size from slightly smaller than a Volkswagen Beetle to as big as a tank, as a critical part of efforts to transform the Army into a fleet-footed force that can quickly be deployed to a battle zone.

ROBOT SUBS - Already, smart unmanned subs are set to replace dolphins as undersea mine sniffers. Next tech: mine detonation, remote sleuthing and robotic combat. Nearly undetectable - they operate fully submerged and have low acoustic and magnetic signatures -- they could be sent ahead to conduct surveillance or prepare for an invasion without tipping off enemy forces. They can be small enough to be launched from almost any ship, sub or aircraft -- some are even light enough to be Fed Exed -- and thus can conduct missions in water too shallow for conventional craft. They can be produced relatively inexpensively, so they wouldn't need to be recovered in dangerous or inconvenient circumstances. They would act as "force multipliers", taking care of programmable tasks and freeing up manned warships to take on more complex ones. And they could be sent on the riskiest missions.

MILITARY ROBOTS PREPARE TO MARCH INTO BATTLE - The Army has been in contract for years to develop robots that will be able to make the military a stronger, faster, more efficient fighting force. Sentinel robots that would be stationed inside or outside buildings. Equipped with heat, motion, chemical, biological, or sound sensors, or a combination thereof, they could make the dozing guard a relic of the past.

DEATH RAY - The background to the development of anti-personnel ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS can be traced by to the early-middle 1940's and possibly earlier. The earliest extant reference was contained in the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific Survey, Military Analysis Division, Volume 63) which reviewed Japanese research and development efforts on a "Death Ray." Whilst not reaching the stage of practical application, research was considered sufficiently promising to warrant the expenditure of Yen 2 million during the years 1940-1945. Summarizing the Japanese efforts, allied scientists concluded that a ray apparatus might be developed that could kill unshielded human beings at a distance of 5 to 10 miles. Studies demonstrated that, for example, automobile engines could be stopped by tuned waves as early as 1943.

PHASERS ON STUN - if snipers are in a building, they have a radar system that can look through walls and spot them. And the laser rifle with its dual power setting -- one for "stun" and the other for kill.

AIRCRAFT - High-power lasers disorient enemy pilots and disable cockpit displays. The ABL weapon system will use a high-energy, chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL) mounted on a modified 747-400F (freighter) aircraft to shoot down theater ballistic missiles in their boost phase. A crew of four, including pilot and copilot, will operate the airborne laser, which will patrol in pairs at high altitude, about 40,000 feet. The jets will fly in orbits over friendly territory, scanning the horizon for the plumes of rising missiles.

TROOPS - Sound generator produces noise to the pain level. Red and blue strobe lights nauseate unfriendly crowds. Hideously awful smells immobilize troops.

TANKS - High-powered microwaves fuse radios and destroy electronic guidance systems of artillery shells. Electromagnetic pulse zaps radios, computers and lighting circuits.

TRUCKS - Microbes eat engine hoses, belts, electrical insulation. "Pyrophoric" particles burn out engines when drawn into air intakes; "slick'em" and "stick'em" sprays make roads impassable. Compounds turn diesel fuel and gasoline into jelly.

EAR-BLASTING ANTI-HIJACK GUN - "It shoots out a pulse of sound that's almost like a bullet," "It's over 140 decibels for a second or two." Sounds become painful between 120 to 130 decibels. Knocked down. To test the system, a man created a cut-down version and turned it on himself. "It almost knocked me on my butt. I wasn't interested in anything for quite a while afterwards," he says. "You could virtually knock a cow on its back with this." "This would be extremely painful and uncomfortable and you would probably lose your hearing for a few hours."

DEVASTATING ELECTRONIC BOMBS - The high-power microwave (HPM) bomb is stored in a briefcase and emits short, high-energy pulses reaching 10 gigawatts -- equal to 10 nuclear reactors. It has a range of a dozen meters, and larger models stored in vans can reach as far as a few hundred meters. The target can be destroyed without alerting anyone. This silent weapon -- which does not explode -- can have disastrous effects, especially if it falls into the hands of terrorists. The bomb presents a threat to jet fighters. It can also knock out the electronic systems of nuclear or electric power plants, banks, trains, or even a simple telephone switchboard. The bomb has also been developed into a pistol which can be used to knock out a single computer or vehicle.

BUNKER BUSTER BOMB - is a special weapon developed for penetrating hardened command centers located deep underground. The GBU-28 is a 5,000-pound laser-guided conventional munition that uses a 4,400-pound penetrating warhead. The bombs are modified Army artillery tubes, weigh 4,637 pounds, and contain 630 pounds of high explosives.

GENETIC BIOWEAPONS - Unlike conventional biological weapons that kill by disabling the nervous system, The genetic weapons would work subtly, and for this reason could strike undetected. Genetically, target agents could affect the birthrates of a population, infant mortality rates, disease proclivity or even crop production." "It might take decades to realize an attack has even occurred. By that point, a population of people might be seriously diminished.

GERM WARFARE - Both private firms and the military have used unknowing human populations to test various theories. During the last 30 years, Cuba has been subjected to an enormous number of outbreaks of human and crop diseases which are difficult to attribute purely natural causes.

LASER OF DEATH - Laser gun zaps missile. During the test of the Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL), it tracked a Katyusha rocket with its radar and then destroyed it with its high-powered laser beam. THEL's defensive capabilities proves that directed energy weapon systems have the potential to play a significant role in defending US national security interests world-wide," said Lieutenant General John Costello. The laser is a potentially potent weapon as the beam travels literally at the speed of light and can cross great distances with minimal loss of intensity. Such a beam could knock out targets at distances ranging from tens of kilometres to, in theory, thousands of kilometres. Lasers were behind the space-based missile defence shield idea, labelled "Star Wars", first suggested by US President Ronald Reagan in 1983.

ANTI-GRAVITY PROJECT - Secret anti-gravity experiments that could revolutionize the conventional aerospace industry and lead to "free energy" are underway in Seattle. The project at Boeing's Phantom Works advanced research and development facility is now trying to solicit the services of a Russian scientist who claims to have developed anti-gravity devices in Russia and Finland. It has its own code name of "GRASP," for Gravity Research for Advanced Space Propulsion. Boeing says such uses could include space-launch systems, artificial gravity on spacecraft, aircraft propulsion and electricity generation without fuel - so-called "free energy". Additionally, there's a military potential as Podkletnov's work could be engineered into a stunning new weapon, capable of vaporizing objects moving at high speed. A device called an "impulse gravity generator" is capable of producing a beam of gravity-like energy that can exert an instantaneous force of 1,000-G on any object.

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Air Force pursuing antimatter weapons


The U.S. Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use a radical power source -- antimatter, the eerie "mirror" of ordinary matter -- in future weapons.

The most powerful potential energy source presently thought to be available to humanity, antimatter is a term normally heard in science-fiction films and TV shows, whose heroes fly "antimatter-powered spaceships" and do battle with "antimatter guns."

But antimatter itself isn't fiction; it actually exists and has been intensively studied by physicists since the 1930s. In a sense, matter and antimatter are the yin and yang of reality: Every type of subatomic particle has its antimatter counterpart. But when matter and antimatter collide, they annihilate each other in an immense burst of energy.

During the Cold War, the Air Force funded numerous scientific studies of the basic physics of antimatter. With the knowledge gained, some Air Force insiders are beginning to think seriously about potential military uses -- for example, antimatter bombs small enough to hold in one's hand, and antimatter engines for 24/7 surveillance aircraft.

More cataclysmic possible uses include a new generation of super weapons -- either pure antimatter bombs or antimatter-triggered nuclear weapons; the former wouldn't emit radioactive fallout. Another possibility is antimatter- powered "electromagnetic pulse" weapons that could fry an enemy's electric power grid and communications networks, leaving him literally in the dark and unable to operate his society and armed forces.

Following an initial inquiry from The Chronicle this summer, the Air Force forbade its employees from publicly discussing the antimatter research program. Still, details on the program appear in numerous Air Force documents distributed over the Internet prior to the ban.

These include an outline of a March 2004 speech by an Air Force official who, in effect, spilled the beans about the Air Force's high hopes for antimatter weapons. On March 24, Kenneth Edwards, director of the "revolutionary munitions" team at the Munitions Directorate at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida was keynote speaker at the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) conference in Arlington, Va.

In that talk, Edwards discussed the potential uses of a type of antimatter called positrons.

Physicists have known about positrons or "antielectrons" since the early 1930s, when Caltech scientist Carl Anderson discovered a positron flying through a detector in his laboratory. That discovery, and the later discovery of "antiprotons" by Berkeley scientists in the 1950s, upheld a 1920s theory of antimatter proposed by physicist Paul Dirac.

In 1929, Dirac suggested that the building blocks of atoms -- electrons (negatively charged particles) and protons (positively charged particles) -- have antimatter counterparts: antielectrons and antiprotons. One fundamental difference between matter and antimatter is that their subatomic building blocks carry opposite electric charges. Thus, while an ordinary electron is negatively charged, an antielectron is positively charged (hence the term positrons, which means "positive electrons"); and while an ordinary proton is positively charged, an antiproton is negative.

The real excitement, though, is this: If electrons or protons collide with their antimatter counterparts, they annihilate each other. In so doing, they unleash more energy than any other known energy source, even thermonuclear bombs.

The energy from colliding positrons and antielectrons "is 10 billion times ... that of high explosive," Edwards explained in his March speech. Moreover, 1 gram of antimatter, about 1/25th of an ounce, would equal "23 space shuttle fuel tanks of energy." Thus "positron energy conversion," as he called it, would be a "revolutionary energy source" of interest to those who wage war.

It almost defies belief, the amount of explosive force available in a speck of antimatter -- even a speck that is too small to see. For example: One millionth of a gram of positrons contain as much energy as 37.8 kilograms (83 pounds) of TNT, according to Edwards' March speech. A simple calculation, then, shows that about 50-millionths of a gram could generate a blast equal to the explosion (roughly 4,000 pounds of TNT, according to the FBI) at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

Unlike regular nuclear bombs, positron bombs wouldn't eject plumes of radioactive debris. When large numbers of positrons and antielectrons collide, the primary product is an invisible but extremely dangerous burst of gamma radiation. Thus, in principle, a positron bomb could be a step toward one of the military's dreams from the early Cold War: a so-called "clean" superbomb that could kill large numbers of soldiers without ejecting radioactive contaminants over the countryside.

A copy of Edwards' speech onNIAC's Web site emphasizes this advantage of positron weapons in bright red letters: "No Nuclear Residue."

But talk of "clean" superbombs worries critics. " 'Clean' nuclear weapons are more dangerous than dirty ones because they are more likely to be used," said an e-mail from science historian George Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., author of "Project Orion," a 2002 study on a Cold War-era attempt to design a nuclear spaceship. Still, Dyson adds, antimatter weapons are "a long, long way off."

Why so far off? One reason is that at present, there's no fast way to mass produce large amounts of antimatter from particle accelerators. With present techniques, the price tag for 100-billionths of a gram of antimatter would be $6 billion, according to an estimate by scientists at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and elsewhere, who hope to launch antimatter-fueled spaceships.

Another problem is the terribly unruly behavior of positrons whenever physicists try to corral them into a special container. Inside these containers, known as Penning traps, magnetic fields prevent the antiparticles from contacting the material wall of the container -- lest they annihilate on contact. Unfortunately, because like-charged particles repel each other, the positrons push each other apart and quickly squirt out of the trap.

If positrons can't be stored for long periods, they're as useless to the military as an armored personnel carrier without a gas tank. So Edwards is funding investigations of ways to make positrons last longer in storage.

Edwards' point man in that effort is Gerald Smith, former chairman of physics and Antimatter Project leader at Pennsylvania State University. Smith now operates a small firm, Positronics Research LLC, in Santa Fe, N.M. So far, the Air Force has given Smith and his colleagues $3.7 million for positron research, Smith told The Chronicle in August.

Smith is looking to store positrons in a quasi-stable form called positronium. A positronium "atom" (as physicists dub it) consists of an electron and antielectron, orbiting each other. Normally these two particles would quickly collide and self-annihilate within a fraction of a second -- but by manipulating electrical and magnetic fields in their vicinity, Smith hopes to make positronium atoms last much longer.

Smith's storage effort is the "world's first attempt to store large quantities of positronium atoms in a laboratory experiment," Edwards noted in his March speech. "If successful, this approach will open the door to storing militarily significant quantities of positronium atoms."

Officials at Eglin Air Force Base initially agreed enthusiastically to try to arrange an interview with Edwards. "We're all very excited about this technology," spokesman Rex Swenson at Eglin's Munitions Directorate told The Chronicle in late July. But Swenson backed out in August after he was overruled by higher officials in the Air Force and Pentagon.

Reached by phone in late September, Edwards repeatedly declined to be interviewed. His superiors gave him "strict instructions not to give any interviews personally. I'm sorry about that -- this (antimatter) project is sort of my grandchild. ...

"(But) I agree with them (that) we're just not at the point where we need to be doing any public interviews."

Air Force spokesman Douglas Karas at the Pentagon also declined to comment last week.

In the meantime, the Air Force has been investigating the possibility of making use of a powerful positron-generating accelerator under development at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. One goal: to see if positrons generated by the accelerator can be stored for long periods inside a new type of "antimatter trap" proposed by scientists, including Washington State physicist Kelvin Lynn, head of the school's Center for Materials Research.

A new generation of military explosives is worth developing, and antimatter might fill the bill, Lynn told The Chronicle: "If we spend another $10 billion (using ordinary chemical techniques), we're going to get better high explosives, but the gains are incremental because we're getting near the theoretical limits of chemical energy."

Besides, Lynn is enthusiastic about antimatter because he believes it could propel futuristic space rockets.

"I think," he said, "we need to get off this planet, because I'm afraid we're going to destroy it."

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