Laser pumped infantry

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Biotechnology, genetic engineering, the creation of artificial organs did not make a person more secure. We have entered the century weaponsbased on new physical principles. Do we have our own developments and scientific discoveries in this area? Is Russia ready to accept the challenge?

The last decades have been characterized by the acceleration of scientific and technological progress, which directly influences the creation of such types of VVST, which threaten the very existence of man as a biological species.



Civilization began to realize that it can wait. The troubles she faces tomorrow scare more than those that are likely today. But despite this, large-scale research is being conducted aimed at creating weapons that, as a result of even one-time use, can lead to mass destruction of people.

In this regard, the actions of the leadership of Russia are quite logical, aimed at strengthening the defense capability to a level that guarantees an exhaustive response to aggressive challenges. Many in the West considered that if we once stopped the development of advanced weapons based on the principle of humanism and reducing the level of military confrontation, we are no longer able to resume their production and hopelessly lag behind in creating systems based on new physical principles.

Laser pumped infantry


The euphoria that struck the authorities of Western countries, who believed in their impunity and hoped that there would be no retaliatory measures, was dangerous and could lead to a massive death of peoples. Russia, having a powerful intellectual potential and advanced scientific base, is able to quickly create unconventional weapons based on new physical principles. In particular, directional energy, radiation, electromagnetic, beam, infrasound, radio frequency, annihilation. The latter, for example, may involve in the reaction the surrounding world and a wave of processes of division and synthesis of a substance constituting the habitat of biological species will sweep across the planet. It is appropriate to say about weapons of mass destruction based on new physical principles. It is a consequence of the creation of nuclear weapons analogues, which, when activated, produce a single damaging factor: penetrating radiation, light radiation, shock wave, electromagnetic radiation, induced radiation.

The US has long been working on models based on new physical principles, and some species have already been adopted.

Broken "Stiletto"

In the 60 – 70-ies in the USSR, neutron ammunition was created for artillery of a caliber 203 of millimeter and air defense missile systems. In the explosion energy 80 percent were fast neutrons. 20 percent went into the shock wave and light radiation. One kiloton ammunition within a radius of up to 2,5 kilometer defeated enemy personnel, disabled electronic devices, and created high levels of induced radiation. But it was most effective when triggered in the upper atmosphere and outer space. If during an explosion in the air, the flux of fast neutrons weakened as a result of interaction with the environment, then in space, without encountering obstacles, neutrons can spread over long distances and, penetrating unhindered into nuclear warheads, can cause a chain reaction without a critical mass.



Work has been done on the creation of non-nuclear electromagnetic emitters. They have been improving for many years, but since the elements of this weapon are a high-tech war with extensive use of electronics, it has to wait in the wings.

An important direction of development has become a beam weapon. Its striking effect is based on the use of directed pulses of electromagnetic energy or a concentrated beam of elementary particles. The radiation effect is generated by a set of devices that receive energy from external sources.

One of the types of beam weapons - beam (accelerator). Its striking element is a high-precision, highly directional beam of electrons, protons, and neutral hydrogen atoms that are accelerated to high speeds. Objects of destruction can be artificial satellites of the Earth, ballistic and cruise missiles of various types, ground combat equipment. The electronic means of the enemy will also be vulnerable, the possibility of irradiation of manpower is not excluded.



Another type of beam weapon is lasers. It can be powerful quantum generators in the visible, infrared, ultraviolet regions of the spectrum. The damaging effect is achieved as a result of heating to high temperatures of the object until it melts, and in some cases - evaporation, damage to the supersensitive elements, organs of vision, skin. The action of the laser beam is different stealth (no external signs in the form of flashes, smoke, sound), high accuracy, almost instantaneous action.

The beginning of the creation of laser weapons refers to the 50-th years. Even then, large-scale tests of high-power devices were carried out as a means of directly hitting targets in the interests of strategic space-based, anti-missile defense. At the same time, work in this area was carried out under the Terra and Omega programs. As knowledge of the physical properties of the laser deepened, new directions of its use in the military sphere were opened.

For example, in the 60-ies created a blaster for Soviet astronauts, in 70-x - a laser rifle, designed to dazzle the soldiers, the thermal destruction of manpower, disabling the enemy's optical systems. Devices on this principle were widely used at the end of the twentieth century - for location, navigation, reconnaissance, communications, and in other areas. They occupied an important place in weapons control systems and targeting bombs, missiles, projectiles, and other striking elements. The enormous success of laser technology creates the conditions for the unprecedented development of new technologies.

In the Soviet years, the creation of an autonomous laser gun was practiced, its tests were conducted at sea - on an auxiliary tanker fleet Dixon. There is evidence of several test firing at coastal targets. After the collapse of the USSR, the ship went to the Ukrainian Navy and its fate is unknown. It can be assumed that in the USA, work on the creation of a sea-based laser gun began precisely after the transfer of the tanker to Ukrainian jurisdiction.

In the USSR, they also worked on the creation of a Skif spacecraft capable of carrying a laser gun and providing it with energy in abundance. The 80-ton vehicle was the prototype of a space fighter capable of being in orbit for as long as possible and destined to destroy enemy satellites. The previous type of “Flight” type could hit only one space object and after that it self-destructed. The program was closed by the decision of Gorbachev. "Skiff" put into orbit the launch vehicle "Energy" only to drop it from there for burning in dense layers of the atmosphere.

The next after Skif was the Stiletto project. On it were going to install the onboard special complex (BSK) 1K11, developed by the NGO Astrophysics. This is a variant of the ground-based complex “Stilet” - a ten-station installation of infrared lasers operating at a wavelength of 1,06 nanometer, already adopted for service. All these developments stopped at the final stage of R & D. But as far as we know, the documentation is intact, the existing groundwork will, if necessary, allow in the shortest possible time to bring lasers of this type to standard and introduce them into the troops.

In America, the missile defense program creates powerful chemical lasers for placement on Boeing 747 aircraft and space platforms. By the way, they use developments made by Soviet scientists and transferred to the United States at the beginning of the 90s on the orders of Yeltsin.

In the future, the Ground Forces will get more advanced lasers, both wearable and portable, with improved combat performance. Blasters and rifles will be smaller. By the way, they belong to non-lethal means and are divided into impulse and continuous action.

It must be assumed that for a wearable laser weapon a working body will be created as a capacitor capable of accumulating absorbed energy and supporting the atoms of the working medium at the threshold of inversion in order to activate the stimulated emission mechanism. It is enough to pass a current through the working medium by closing the electrical circuit by pressing a button. In fact, for each pulse will be its own cartridge. Laser recharging will be a purely technical, easily solvable operation. In addition, in theory, the pumping period of the working fluid will be excluded and a powerful power source will not be required.

Blinding sight

Airborne combat laser systems are designed and built for a long time. At the beginning of the 80-x, sighting platoons equipped with BMP-1 with AB-1 laser equipment were introduced into the divisional states. Their main purpose is to disable the optics installed on the armored facilities and anti-tank complexes of the enemy, as well as partial blinding of operators and gunners. In 1992, the “Squeezing” system was adopted, it was placed in the Msta-S self-propelled gun system. This laser complex automatically determined the position of the glare objects and suppressed them.

The mass introduction of lasers into the battle formations of units and units of the Ground Forces is hindered by the fact that BBMs are not equipped with high-power electric generators. Traditional thinking does not allow a decisive step. We have been running the layout for years. tank, but so far there is no intelligible explanation for what combat tasks in modern conditions such an expensive equipment is created. Of course, in the defense and fire support of the troops in front, in the development of the offensive in the depths of the enemy’s orders, the same “Armata” will look worthy. But we must also measure the possibilities of the European economy and our industry for the production of military equipment to make up for losses. The conclusion is simple: the army needs a machine with an expanded set of portable weapons, with autonomous control of each model. This will allow the fight against several armored objects simultaneously.

There were proposals to create a tank-infantry fire complex (TPCS), combining the capabilities of the OBT and BMP. It can be built-in generator power 750 kilowatts, which will allow in the future to install an electromagnetic gun and a laser machine on a combat vehicle. The idea has critics. Let them offer how otherwise to massively introduce into the battle formations of troops that are in direct contact with the enemy laser installations. In addition to blinding an object, the use of a TPC will “cut off” attachments from an enemy tank, heat the locations of the fuel tanks in order to cause a fuel to ignite. Using a laser, you can initiate the undermining of dynamic protection blocks.

And now let's imagine a company armed with 10 tank and electromagnetic guns, laser systems, and estimate the combat potential of this military unit. So in what direction to develop? The answer is obvious.
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  1. +5
    April 8 2017 07: 51
    And now let's imagine a company armed with 10 tank and electromagnetic guns, laser systems, and estimate the combat potential of this military unit. So in what direction to develop? The answer is obvious.

    Of course! In the field of science fiction and genetic engineering.
    1. +14
      April 8 2017 07: 57
      Quote: Amurets
      Of course! In the field of science fiction and genetic engineering.

      The article is clearly not drawn to the level of VO. negative
      Some statements are generally “masterpieces”, for example:
      neutrons can propagate over long distances and, freely penetrating into nuclear warheads, can cause a chain reaction without critical mass.
      A new word in nuclear physics is a chain reaction in a nuclear warhead without reaching a critical mass. lol The author clearly does not understand what he is writing about. No.
      1. +4
        April 8 2017 08: 15
        Quote: Bongo
        A new word in nuclear physics is a chain reaction in a nuclear warhead without reaching a critical mass.

        Sergei! It's like a same-sex conception, without genetic engineering, in mammals
      2. +2
        April 8 2017 08: 31
        chain reaction in a nuclear warhead without reaching a critical mass

        There will be no explosion, but you can get a pop.
        1. +2
          April 8 2017 09: 14
          Quote: spech
          There will be no explosion, but you can get a pop.

          But this is not a chain reaction ... request
          1. 0
            April 8 2017 10: 41

            0
            Bongo Today, 09: 14 ↑
            Quote: spech
            There will be no explosion, but you can get a pop.

            But this is not a chain reaction ...

            Just chain, but "self-extinguishing"
            without external neutrons "fade" hi
            1. +3
              April 8 2017 12: 14
              Quote: spech
              Just chain, but "self-extinguishing"
              without external neutrons "fade"

              CHAIN ​​REACTION, self-sustaining the process of nuclear Fission, in which one reaction leads to the beginning of the second, the second to the third and so on. To start the reaction, critical conditions are necessary, that is, the mass of material capable of cleavage must exceed a certain CRITICAL MASS. hi
              1. 0
                April 8 2017 13: 03
                Okay, I’ll write easier, why is uranium 238 used in thermonuclear weapons? and why it was replaced with lead in the "Kuzkin mother"
                ps
                that is, the mass of material capable of splitting must exceed a certain CRITICAL MASS.

                the definition is not accurate, the geometry of the material also plays a huge role.
              2. +2
                April 8 2017 17: 32
                Quote: Bongo
                CHAIN ​​REACTION, a self-sustaining nuclear fission process in which one reaction leads to the start of the second, second to the third and so on.

                A simplified and strictly speaking incorrect definition. One reaction can initiate, on average, more or less than one second, or (almost) strictly one. In the first case, the broads will happen. In the second, it will fade. In the third, there will be constant heat generation, this is how nuclear reactors work.
                To start the reaction, critical conditions are necessary, that is, the mass of material capable of cleavage must exceed a certain CRITICAL MASS.

                This is also a simplified and incorrect definition. Just as an example, the mass (taking into account the geometry) can be strictly equal to the critical mass.
      3. +10
        April 8 2017 12: 11
        Dear site administration!
        There is a suggestion that the article tag should be changed to "opinions", or where you usually have addictive fantasy hanging there.

        Separately, I note to the author that f * cking pictures with J. Lucas and inserting them into such a trip is not good.
      4. +2
        April 8 2017 16: 28
        Quote: Bongo
        A new word in nuclear physics is a chain reaction in a nuclear warhead without reaching a critical mass. The author clearly does not understand what he is writing about.

        Duc, where does the author? the author is not to blame! They fed him info:
        This issue was especially relevant in the development of missile defense systems. The idea that a ballistic missile (or its warhead) can be shot down by detonating a nuclear charge next to it is almost as old as a nuclear weapon itself: the first missile defense concepts appeared in the US Army as early as the 1946 year.
        The problem is that a warhead is a point target, small-sized, and even very fast moving, and usually very resistant to the damaging factors of a nuclear explosion. Moreover, the number of such in the vacuum of Space is rapidly decreasing. At first, a neutron flux was considered as such, which, penetrating the fissile material of the warhead, should provoke a chain reaction without reaching a critical mass, heating the fissile material and its explosive destruction without significant energy release - the so-called "pop effect". This method was not ideal, but with the advent of “boosted” nuclear charges — in which the plutonium or uranium charge does not reach a critical mass, and an additional neutron yield is provided (upon detonation) by exciting the fusion reaction in a capsule with a deuterium-tritium mixture — it generally disappears ; boosted pop immune boosts.
        An alternative - optimal - was to use an X-ray flux as a damaging factor. Those. simply - bring down such a powerful x-ray stream onto the warhead that the upper layers of its shell, evaporating instantly, simply explode, tearing the warhead into pieces. It was on this principle that the most powerful neutron (formally) munition — the W71 warhead for the Sprint missile — worked. However ... with all its power (5 megatons is a record for ammunition with enhanced radiation output!), The radius of destruction even of such a warhead was no more than 40 kilometers in an ideal situation, and 10-20 kilometers in a realistic one. The problem was the same: the energy of the explosion propagated spherically, decreasing in full accordance with the law of inverse squares.
        https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BA%
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        .... And he swallowed it without chewing ....
      5. 0
        April 12 2017 11: 38
        Quote: Bongo
        A new word in nuclear physics is a chain reaction in a nuclear warhead without reaching a critical mass. lol The author clearly does not understand what he is writing about

        Physicists I knew for a long time told me how the fuse of a hydrogen warhead is arranged, so there is no critical mass of plutonium, there is a particle accelerator, it irradiates plutonium at the time of the explosion and transfers it to a supercritical state - much smaller in mass and many times safe, and then the undermining system is triggered. Apparently this moment was what the author had in mind.
        1. 0
          5 June 2017 20: 17
          Only that is all in vain. Without political will, even the most sophisticated weapons will not go into action. Personally, I believe that to end all this confrontation and, accordingly, to establish peace, the best step is to lay down arms. To voluntarily admit defeated oneself. To sacrifice ambitions and conceit for the sake of an absolute goal - peace in the whole galaxy.
  2. 0
    April 8 2017 08: 32
    Baby talk.
    1. +6
      April 8 2017 13: 07
      yeah
      annihilation weapons, for example, can engage the outside world in a reaction and a wave of processes of division and synthesis of matter will sweep across the planet

      I have not seen such a heresy in the Armaments section for a long time ...
      Kaptsov and his armadillos are better, he writes interestingly.
  3. +2
    April 8 2017 09: 04
    In the future, the Ground Forces will receive more advanced lasers, both portable and portable, with improved combat characteristics.

    But the author did not specify in what perspective and how far it is from reality? Today, the army needs re-equipment for already created samples of weapons and b / equipment. But let scientists and narrow specialists do this for now if such a task is set for them.
    1. 0
      April 8 2017 10: 20
      There are a lot of laser devices ready for arming. But they are not bought. For some strange reason.
      1. +1
        April 8 2017 10: 26
        And the reasons are the simplest - dimensions and energy component.
        1. +2
          April 8 2017 10: 35
          Quote: rotmistr60
          dimensions and energy component.

          ?
          1. 0
            April 8 2017 10: 37
            Dear, what are you talking about? We are talking about laser weapons for infantry and armored vehicles.
            1. +5
              April 8 2017 10: 51
              Isn't that a weapon?
              PAPV was officially in service with the Soviet Army, then it was removed from the troops under far-fetched pretext under Gorbachev
              There is a "Spider" - a small-sized complex of optical counteraction. There are complexes of detection and glare optics LS-101, MLS-101, "Leader"
              These are only those devices that can actually be bought. Security organizations
              1. 0
                April 9 2017 21: 07
                Quote: Spade
                Isn't that a weapon?
                PAPV was officially in service with the Soviet Army, then it was removed from the troops under far-fetched pretext under Gorbachev
                There is a "Spider" - a small-sized complex of optical counteraction. There are complexes of detection and glare optics LS-101, MLS-101, "Leader"
                These are only those devices that can actually be bought. Security organizations

                This is not a weapon. You can’t kill. These are countermeasures. Article about lethal weapons. Which is not. From the word completely
  4. 0
    April 8 2017 09: 57
    Star Wars part 7 .....!
  5. +2
    April 8 2017 15: 47
    M-d-ah! Nostalgia is a contagious thing! As soon as I read the article, I "ran into" memories .... about the "SOI program"! What colorful pictures filled the pages of popular (and not so) print media! And cartoons! That's really a "funny" little time was Oh! Now, of course, it’s more boring, but wait, the author promises!
    1. +2
      April 8 2017 22: 40
      Quote: Nikolaevich I
      Now, of course, it’s more boring, but wait, the author promises!

      Do not wait. A spring exacerbation will take place, or the patient (author) will be put to the hospital (PNI).
  6. +2
    April 8 2017 16: 34
    In the future, the BSU concept may gain new “interpretations” with the creation of “clean” thermonuclear munitions (without plutonium fuse).
  7. 0
    April 8 2017 17: 37
    as well as partial blinding of operators and gunners

    One of the conventions prohibits weapons, the main purpose of which is to blind people.
  8. +1
    April 8 2017 18: 34
    Quote: Nikolaevich I
    “clean” thermonuclear munitions

    they are not entirely clean - with an air explosion at a height of a shorter neutron path, the activation of ground structures and soil occurs. After the explosion, a small induced radioactivity remains in the epicenter due to neutron absorption.
    1. +2
      April 9 2017 00: 21
      Quote: Svetlana
      they are not entirely clean - with an air explosion at a height of a shorter neutron path, the activation of ground structures and soil occurs. After the explosion, a small induced radioactivity remains in the epicenter due to neutron absorption.

      What can you do about shoahs? Not just finding perfection in the world! However, the military believes that already after 48 hours after the explosion of the "neutron" ammunition, troops can operate in the territory affected by the explosion ...
  9. +1
    April 8 2017 22: 34
    Quote: “Now imagine a company armed with 10 tank and electromagnetic cannons, laser systems, and estimate the combat potential of this military unit. So, in what direction should we develop? The answer is obvious. ..."
    Obvious - that's for sure. The author of the laurels of Rudolf Erich Raspe ("Baron Munchausen") or A. Tolstoy ("Engineer Hyperboloid Garin") is not allowed to sleep. I haven’t seen such wild game for a long time. And therefore the most polite answer: the author, hungover .... Less polite: the author, repeat the course of SCHOOL physics. Impolite: author, take galaperidol, you have a seasonal exacerbation ....
  10. 0
    April 10 2017 20: 12
    For example, in the 60s they created a blaster for Soviet cosmonauts, in the 70s they created a laser rifle designed to blind soldiers, heat injure manpower, and disable optical systems of the enemy. Devices based on this principle became widespread at the end of the XNUMXth century - for location, navigation, reconnaissance, communications, in other areas. They occupied an important place in weapon control systems and targeting bombs, missiles, shells, and other striking elements.

    Hmmm ... "Comrade does not understand ..." Location systems or functional defeats are one thing, and systems of force destruction are quite another. Information for consideration: you can knock out an eye for a person by properly poking a finger into this same eye. And now we’ll try to poke a finger (even very hard) on the opponent’s torso, on which, moreover, a bulletproof vest is worn ... I mean that nobody canceled the energy conservation law. And if we want to make a hole in the enemy, then the amount of energy invested in the projectile should be appropriate, regardless of where we get this energy from - the powder charge, or from the laser pump system. And if we recall that the efficiency of lasers is about 20 times less than the efficiency of conventional firearms, then the prospect of "laser-pumped infantry" becomes very sad ... "May the force be with us!" Amen!

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