6. Non-lethal weapons
Non-lethal weapons, also known as incapacitated weapons or non-lethal weapons, are weapon systems specially designed to disable personnel or equipment and minimize incidental damage. Non-lethal weapons and anti-personnel non-lethal weapons.
(1) Anti-equipment non-lethal weapons. At present, the non-lethal weapons developed abroad for anti-equipment mainly include super lubricants, material catalysts, super corrosive agents, super viscose and powertrain flameout bombs (similar to graphite bombs).
(1) Super lubricant: it is a chemical substance with a very small friction coefficient that is compounded by using oil-containing polymer microspheres, polymer microspheres, surface modification technology, inorganic lubricants, etc. as raw materials. It is mainly used to attack targets such as airport runways, aircraft carrier decks, railroad tracks, highways, bridges, etc., which can effectively prevent aircraft from taking off and landing and trains and military vehicles from advancing.
(2) Material embrittlement agent: it is some special chemical substances that can cause rapid disintegration of metal materials, polymer materials, optical window materials and so on. Such substances can cause serious damage to and paralyze the structure of enemy equipment, and can be used to damage enemy aircraft, tanks, vehicles, ships, rails, bridges and other infrastructure.
(3) Super corrosive agent: it is some chemical substances that have super corrosive effect on specific materials. It can cause the tires of aircraft and vehicles, the soles of people's shoes to deteriorate, and damage the asphalt roads and the metal shells of armored vehicles.
(4) Super viscose: It is some chemical substances with super strong viscosity performance. Foreign countries are studying their use as weapons that destroy equipment sensing devices and turn off engines, as well as compound them with material embrittlement agents, super corrosive agents, etc., to improve the combat effectiveness of these chemical weapons. If the enemy's armored vehicle engine sucks this material, it will make the fuel change viscosity and other efficiency, hindering the normal operation of the fuel, thus causing the engine to fail. The United States sees it as one of the effective means of suppressing enemy armored clusters.
(2) Anti-personnel non-lethal weapons. Anti-personnel non-lethal weapons can reduce the number of enemy combatants and inflict a heavy casualty burden on the enemy. The anti-personnel non-lethal weapons that are being studied abroad these days mainly include chemical deactivants, irritants and viscous foams.
(1) Chemical disability agents: divided into mental disability agents and physical disability agents. It can cause mental disorders, physical disorders and thus incapacity of personnel. Recently, foreign countries have been studying the combination of powerful analgesics and skin exudatives, which can quickly penetrate the skin and cause personnel to be poisoned and incapacitated. Strictly speaking, this is also a kind of chemical poison gas, but it does not take human life.
(2) Irritant: A class of non-fatal temporary disability agents that irritate the eyes, nose, throat and skin. In the wild, at a certain concentration, the symptoms of poisoning will occur after a short period of exposure! After a few minutes or hours of disengagement, the symptoms will disappear automatically, no special treatment will be required, and no sequelae will be left. If inhaled in large quantities for a long time, it can cause lung damage, and severe ones can lead to death.
(3) Viscous foam: it belongs to a chemical reagent, which is sprayed on the personnel and immediately solidifies, restricting the action of the personnel. The U.S. military used a "toffee gun" in operations in Somalia that could wrap up people and render them incapacitated. It can be used as a dual-purpose weapon for military and police, and the United States has developed a second-generation shoulder-mounted adhesive foam launcher.
7. Infrasound weapons
Infrasound weapons are high-power weapon devices that can emit low-frequency sound waves, that is, infrasound waves, below 20 Hz. In the air, it can travel at a speed of 1200 kilometers per hour, and in water it can travel at a speed of six kilometers per hour and penetrate concrete 1.5 meters thick. Although it is difficult to smell, it can resonate with the body's physiological system and thus lose its function.
At present, the infrasonic weapons developed are divided into two types: the former makes people nervous and crazy; the latter can make the human organs resonate, produce a violent feeling of discomfort, and then lose combat effectiveness. Because infrasound waves can penetrate buildings and vehicles, personnel hiding in fortifications or armored vehicles are not immune. The United States used sashimi weapons in the Bosnian War, which caused a large number of enemy personnel to lose combat effectiveness within seconds.
Infrasonic weapons have been listed as one of the important weapons in future wars, it has the advantages of strong concealment, fast propagation speed, high lethality, and no pollution of the environment, etc. At the same time, infrasound waves are not easy to gather into beams, sound wavelengths, directional launch is difficult, easy to distinguish between enemies and enemies.
In short, infrasound weapons make human beings have one more way of "killing". However, due to the enormous destructive effect of infrasound weapons on the environment, natural organisms and non-combatants, how to put them into actual combat is still debatable.
8. Genetic weapons
After the birth of genetic technology, some military politicians first thought of applications in the military field, that is, genetic weapons. It refers to a new type of biological product with lethality developed by using genetic engineering technology. The killing mechanism of genetic weapons is to use biological engineering technology to turn some diseases or viruses into pathogens with significant drug resistance, or in some microorganisms that do not cause disease to humans, integrate pathogenic genes and manufacture new biological agents, resulting in human or racial disease, mass death or extinction. Genetic warfare is more terrifying than nuclear warfare.
(1) The production cost is low, but the killing power is huge. Genetic weapons are relatively easy to build. With the development of science and technology, especially biotechnology, it only takes a general laboratory, some simple modern instruments, and several expert-level personnel to make it. The manufacturing cost is also relatively low, some people compared genetic weapons with powerful nuclear weapons, and calculated that with 50 million US dollars, a genetic weapons arsenal was built, and its lethality far exceeded that of a nuclear weapons arsenal established for 5 billion US dollars.
(2) The use method is simple and diverse. Contrary to other modern weapons, killing without blood is the most prominent feature of genetic weapons. Once the genetic weapon is mastered, the user is not at all more than the Xingshi, just put the genetic germ into the territory of other countries, you can in the front line of the other side, as well as the enemy's rear rivers, lakes, cities and transportation routes, let the virus spread on its own, breeding can make the enemy personnel suffer from a certain strange disease in a short period of time that cannot be treated or is extremely difficult to treat.
(3) It is a hopeless weapon. Genetic weapons due to the virus modification, the virus's genetic code or formula, only the manufacturer knows the mystery, the attacked party in a short period of time is difficult to crack, it is difficult to defend or treat, basically there is no medicine.
In the novel "Three-Body Dark Forest", the protagonist Luo Ji has been attacked by genetic weapons. The ordinary flu that is usually in other people's place, once infected to Luo Ji, is a serious illness that dies of incurable death, which eventually forces the protagonist Luo Ji to hibernate.
It is precisely because genetic weapons can subdue opponents in bloodless (mainly offensive) wars. Therefore, some developed countries in the world are stepping up the development of genetic weapons.
These are all the new concept weapons that I have introduced, and these weapons look so delicate and powerful. When I read the data, I can't help but sigh that human beings are willing to spend so much effort in order to eliminate human beings, from the knife of the cold weapon era, to the bullet of the hot weapon, and then with the infrasound wave of the information age, every scientific and technological progress will bring about the evolution of weapons.
But at the same time, we must also look at it objectively and dialectically, and the evolution of science and technology has brought about not only the revolution of weapons but also the improvement of people's livelihood. From the ploughs of the iron age, to the tractors and harvesters of the industrial age, to the current multi-functional three-dimensional farms, relying solely on artificial intelligence can produce enough food for hundreds of thousands of people, which has to be said to be a great thing.
Maybe one day, people will understand each other, respect each other, and no weapons will be used again.
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