the battlefields of the future will be more dangerous than ever in the 21st
century there will be threats to our freedom and security like never before
but will we be ready
battles will be fought over land and sea but they will not be won without
supremacy in the air
enter the incredible world of 21st century Common
air power is the dominant strategical it's a power the lets you influence
events and respond to events quickly its air power that lets you find a wall
without putting hundreds of thousands of people on the ground to date Air Force
f15 have one more than 150 dog finals against enemy fighters out a single laws
and the Navy f-18 Hornet is widely recognized as the world's best
carrier-based fighter bomber but in the future
neither the f-15 or the f-18 will be able to survive against deadly enemy
anti-aircraft missiles surface-to-air missiles or Sam's going to represent the
biggest threat
most formidable system developed in Russia or China will have to be taken
out of action very quickly in any future conflict the fighter of the future will
need to be stealthy to slip past enemy radar it must be able to take out
anti-aircraft installations and it must out dogfight any enemy fighters get in
the way that future fighter is already here
the f-22 Raptor the air dominance fighter of the 21st century
developed by lockheed martin this Advanced Tactical Fighter has been
designed to be the first plane to cross enemy lines clearing the way for all
other forces
the f-22 is both an air fighter and an heir to surface fighter so it can drop
precision weapons that means we'll be able to go in early in a conflict knock
out all the air defenses that an enemy has also take out certain ground targets
and open the door for all the US forces whether their ground vehicles or other
aircraft to come in and continue to fight
the development of the f-22 Raptor first began in nineteen eighty-five when the
Air Force requested proposals for an advanced tactical fighter jet to replace
the f-15 air superiority fighter military planners feared that the f-15
would not be able to counter new air and ground threats on the horizon
the result was the creation of the f-22 the capability of the aircraft is a
quantum leap above what exists right now and it's going to take air power and
revolutionize it into a whole new world
in the battles of the future stealth will be critical for all new fighters to
avoid being seen by enemy radar non-self the aircraft just will not survive in
the air battles or tomorrow
stealth technology was created to counter advances in radar radar works by
sending out radio waves and measuring the amount reflected back to determine
the distance speed and course of an object but stealth aircraft are designed
with surfaces that deflect radio waves away making them nearly invisible to
radar the world's first stealth production aircraft was the f-117
Nighthawk reason that airplane is faceted is a limitation of the computer
technology at the time it's easier to model a finite number of flat surfaces
then it has a bunch of curved surfaces and while the aircraft was a
breakthrough at the time the facets limited the plane aerodynamically
but now thanks to more powerful computers engineers can design aircraft
that do not have to sacrifice aerodynamics for stealth the fna 22
aerodynamic slickness allows it to have the lowest drag of almost any aircraft
ever produce the f-22 is aerodynamic superiority combined with its stealth
and firepower make it a far better adversary than any aircraft before it
the f-15 which the f-22 will replace has been
a very successful fighter but it is not stifle the f-117 while stealthy carries
no air-to-air weapons and is not designed for air combat it relies on
stealth and mission planning to protect itself but the f-22 on the other hand is
not only stealthy but comes with a full complement of air-to-air and
air-to-ground weapons the primary our argument is in weapon space underneath
the airplane where we carry six medium-range radar-guided missiles by
carrying the weapons internally it preserves the stealthy shape of the
plane for closer in fighting the f-22 has short-range missiles and guns behind
these two doors right here is the side weapons Bay this where we carry he's
seeking missing
for close-in armament the Raptors equipped with the m60 182 cannon the
muzzles hit right behind this door right here it's hidden because of the stealth
characteristics of the air . can carries 480 rounds is capable of shooting a
hundred rounds second the f-22 is advanced weapons systems will make it a
formidable interceptor as will its unique ability to find enemy aircraft
without revealing its own position when other planes use their radar they become
visible to every other radar system in the area but that's not the case with
the f-22 perhaps the highest tech part of the airplane is the radome itself not
only does ray don't have to be stealthy but it has to be able to transmit and
receive its own radar signals how the f-22 radar achieves that remarkable feat
is classified but what is known is that the f-22 can see enemy aircraft at a
distance while remaining invisible to them
the first time that the bad guys were really noticed an f-22 in years when one
blows up along with its advanced radar system f-22 is the first fighter to have
super cruise ability to travel faster than the speed of sound without using
its afterburners a jets afterburners boostspeed by pouring fuel directly into
the hot blast of the engines adding fiery extra thrust but after burners are
also waste consuming enormous amounts of fuel dramatically affecting the range
and duration of a plane's mission but the f-22 doesn't have that problem
without using after birds it can supercruise at an incredible
one-and-a-half times the speed of sound over 1,000 miles per hour
this is all about our pilots being able to go fast minimize the amount of time
they are exposed to any threat do the mission that we've sent them to do turn
around and come home safely
the f-22 is presently the only fighter in the world with super cruise but it
wouldn't be possible without a very unique set of engines the goals for
pratt whitney were to provide a transformational engine that the air
force needed one that was stealthy maintainable and fast
the f1 19 p w100 was developed by pratt & whitney after years of research it
sets the new standard for jet engines along with its incredible supersonic
ability the f1 19 incorporates thrust vector E
here we are at the rear end of an FA 22 Raptor first thing you'll notice of the
nozzles for the f1 19 engines in flight during maneuvering dogfight they
actually move up and down in vector the thrust of the engine to provide
maneuverability it helps us turn inside any foe maneuver at low or high speeds
to outmaneuver another airplane or potentially an enemy weapon that's
headed towards us
the f-22 stealth supercruise and vector thrusting are impressive breakthroughs
its most outstanding feature maybe its ability to nearly fly itself through
advanced computerized controls it relieves the pilot of all the duties
gives the pilot total freedom to just look out engaged in the combat scenario
in addition to monitoring its own performance the f-22 constantly gathers
data on other aircraft in the combat area and presents the most important
information to the pilot
we're going to have information passed to us from either unmanned vehicles or
from off-board sensors so that we can integrate data and use that information
for targeting and it's the way that we are driving our forces in warfare we are
much more integrated with both other services and with other platforms and
the f-22 fits right into that concept the f-22 Raptors total package of
avionics stealth supercruise thrust vector e make it the most
technologically advanced fighter today
never been in an airplane that accelerates fast its agile the ability
to turn very sharply and just brings a great combination of the speed the
stealth and the avionics to the fight that nobody else is going to be able to
touch but there will be future competitors like the Russian Sukhoi 37
which features thrust vectoring and a radical forward swept wing design and
the fifth-generation mig the 1.2 to which some have nicknamed the f-22 ski
the Russians are still very active aircraft developers they've got a
variety of technologies that they're continuing to improve upon and that can
be made available to our future enemies and so that's why we have to stay on top
of the technology that we are developing and make sure that it is able to take
out anything that other countries develop when you look at the
adoption by China of the su-27 and fact that it will probably be modernized
improved that brings up the need for more advanced fighter aircraft in the US
and that's one of the main reasons in quite the air force's so insistent will
need to have the f-22
in addition to Russia other US allies are producing advanced interceptors for
exploit that are superior to the f-15 such as Sweden's jas 39 gripen
and Francis new Raphael
germany italy in the UK have joined forces to create a Eurofighter the
typhoon if these planes fall into unfriendly hands the US Air Force will
need the f-22 to maintain advantage
we're always going to go into war wanting to have that air dominance and
the f-22 is going to be the big boy on the block that can help us to do that in
future combat the f-22 is to be joined by another still the aircraft the f-35
Joint Strike Fighter the ground attack bomber of the future designed for the US
Air Force Navy Marines and britain's royal native the question is will it
work for every user
rules of war have changed brute force has given way to high-tech and
conventional weapons of the past no longer be effective
in future battles the f-22 will be the first fighter to cross enemy lines
surgically removing air and ground targets
next in the f-35 Joint Strike Fighter the attack bomber of the future it will
assume care of the ground attack roll for the US military the f-35 can carry
heavy weapons externally for maximum effect but when a smaller payload is
carried internally it is nearly as stealthy as the vaunted f-117 Nighthawk
has a significant amount of stealth capability to allow it to be used early
on in the in a campaign and it has a significant amount of weapons carrying
payload capability to be used the later stages of campaign the threat to the
airplanes may not be a significant require the stealth the development of
the f-35 was driven by the armed forces desire to save costs by creating a
ground attack bomber that would meet the needs of the air force navy marines and
britain's royal need airplanes are becoming very expensive these days and
we had to do something get the cost of these airplanes back down to a
reasonable level the f-35 is expected to cost about forty million dollars
one-third the cost of an f-22 raptor
but could one basic airframe being designed to satisfy so many different
military demands each armed service wanted a stealthy ground attack bomber
but the Marines also needed a plane with short takeoff and vertical landing
capability the US Navy required a craft with larger wings heavy-duty landing
gear and an arresting hook for carrier landings and the wings would have to
fold up to save deck space the size and scope of the jsf program is pretty
significant airplane is being designed to replace the f-16 and the a-10 for the
air force navy for the Marine Corps and the FAA team for
unlike the twin-engine f-22 Raptor the f-35 Joint Strike Fighter was designed
around a single engine to keep down not only costs but wait a lighter plane can
carry more weapons for the Joint Strike Fighter one of the keys of its mission
is the ability to handle a large amount of ordnance and bring it to an enemy
site that all works better with single engine
the Air Force version of the Joint Strike Fighter the f-35a made its first
flight attempt on october twenty fourth two thousand Tom Morgan film who had
been a test pilot for the f-22 Raptor was at the controls a million things are
going through your mind
your eyes are everywhere you're listening you're watching your senses
are tuned to an incredible level because you're sensing and feeling the airplane
for the very first time
it flies wonderful it's definitely a pilot's airplane
the Air Force testing went smoothly next a navy version was built with heavy-duty
landing gear and wider wings the slow speeds needed to land on carriers Navy
test pilots flew touch and gos demonstrating the f-35 ability to land
within the space of a carrier's flight but the most difficult challenge still
lay ahead for the f-35 program
the Marine Corps needed a version that could perform short takeoffs and
vertical landings Stovall for short stole capabilities extremely important
to the Marine Corps because the airplane can go just about anywhere that the rest
of the forces can go
it's not limited to needing a large runway doesn't need a really big ship to
operate off of engineers at lockheed martin the designers of the f-35 Joint
Strike Fighter took a hard look at the av-8b harrier Stovall fighter that the
new aircraft would have to improve upon the Harrier is a great airplane if you
look at the fact that it's it's basically nineteen sixties technology
it's achieving all those wondrous total flight sort of maneuvers without the aid
of a lot of computers harriers ability to take off hover and land vertically is
achieved by vectored thrust the powerful force of its jet engine is directed
downwards through four nozzles that can pivot 90 degrees
I was brought in because i'm a Harrier pilot almost 1600 hours in that airplane
so all the lessons learned i have from the Harrier airframe operational
experience i have i was able to bring to the program and use those to help
evaluate the x 35 stole 34 hovering engineers gambled on a radical new
system they planned to supplement the vectored thrust method by harnessing the
jet engine to a drive shaft that would power a fan to blast air downward in
1991 we unveiled as shaft-driven lift fan system to the technical world some
actually said you've got to be kidding me are you guys serious the lift fan
required doors to open behind the pilot on the top and bottom of the plane to
draw in more air fan would blast air down mid ship while the jet nozzle and
back swivel blowing its powerful exhaust down to create a balanced lift force
the shaft driven lift fan system allows you to harness a lot more energy out of
what the engine is producing but harnessing a jet engine to a driveshaft
proved to be extremely difficult the mechanical energy we were dealing with
in the shaft of the fan a system was very large we had twenty thousand
horsepower being transmitted from the drive shaft from the main engine to the
lift fan and that's similar to the power going through a u.s. naval destroyer the
lift fans ability to blend large amounts of cool air with the hot jet exhaust
provided another important benefit one of the things we learned in jsf was to
combine the jet exhaust to get a lower combined temperature than the Harrier
this allowed us to avoid some of the problems with concrete where the
concrete would actually burst and explode under the high temperature and
high jet exhaust from the
at the lockheed martin test facility in palmdale california the revolutionary
lift fan system was put to the ultimate test in the air
the lift fan failed during hover the plane would crash
it made its first flight 2001 and it was complete success and at that time I
didn't hear any more from the people who have been saying for years
this thing will never work it worked now all three versions of the f-35 for the
air force navy and marines are being developed and further tested for mass
production the United States Britain and their allies are expected to order more
than 4,000 Joint Strike Fighters which will replace most american-built
fighter-bombers in use today handling qualities of performance are stunning
really is a pilot's airplane it sort of makes you feel like a little boy you
want to take it home and tuck it under the pillow with United it's just a
pilot's airplane in future air conflicts have twenty-twos will be used to
establish their dominance then waves of stealthy f-35 Joint Strike Fighters will
use their superior weapons carrying abilities to attack other major ground
targets the Joint Strike Fighter it's going to be the backbone airplane for
hauling Freight it is going to be the muscle part of sustained forces
commanders can also alter an f-35 mission in the air as situations change
during the battle there are a variety of ways for the f-35 to bring information
from external platforms other airplanes flying on the battlefield
satellite-based assets ground-based assets all that information can be
presented to the pilot in the cockpit and allowed him to be more of a
tactician and manage the tactics of the game that day instead of worrying about
the nuances of flying the airport the pilots job will be to supervise the
process of identifying the target and then to give consent for weapons release
the Joint Strike Fighter will be able to carry a wide range of weapons to include
the heavier weapons such as the 2,000 pound bunker busters and 2,000 pounds of
last weapons
the Joint Strike Fighters one-ton bunker busters and blast bombs will be guided
to their targets with pinpoint precision by Jay damn tail kits the joint direct
attack munition or JDM is a kit that can be put on any bomb to give it the brains
to know where to go and the movable tail fins to guide it through jdam is a
guidance kit that came after Desert Storm this little round piece on the
side there is an inertial navigation clock now this clock instead of
measuring seconds measures $OPERAND feet if you take the unit and you tell it
where it is right now electronically and then you move it back of foot or you
move it up a foot
it measures every centimeter and every distance the bomb knows the coordinates
of where the airplane is and it also know the coordinates where the target is
and when the weapon is released from the airplane and simply flies from one set
of coordinates to the other and does its thing when it gets there because aj damn
is directed by GPS or Global Positioning satellites it can hit targets regardless
of visibility the way we use it is by employing it against targets that we
cannot normally see visually whether it is due to weather smoke haze or just
some sort of other thing that's obscuring the target
as a jam falls its internal clock keeps track of its position and signals the
tail to make course corrections directing it to the target
accuracy of new weapons like Jay dams will reduce collateral damage
it also makes the f-35 and even more formidable weapon system the new weapons
such as a JDM really reduce the need for the number of sorties and that reduces
our wrists are not exposed to enemy threats as often the f-35 is combination
of advanced weapons avionics and stealth will help ensure its success over the
battlefields of the future US military planners wondered if these same features
could be utilized in a helicopter
they wanted a stealth helicopter but could it be done
over the last 50 years helicopters have evolved from slow-moving multi-purpose
support vehicles to fast-moving front line attack shins but in the high tech
Wars of the future speed alone is not enough information is the key
there's three elements that are critical to warfare the ability for you to know
more than the enemy the ability to maneuver quickly around an enemy and
gather more information about them and the ability to provide precision
firepower at the enemy in future conflicts after the f-22 Raptors and the
f-35 Joint Strike Fighters have cleared the way surveillance and attack
helicopters will support ground troops as they move into secure the area we
like to be down lower the action is and we like to be down low where the threat
can't see it but at such low altitudes helicopters are vulnerable to a wide
assortment of ground-to-air weapons all the simple systems the guns unguided
rockets the surface-to-air missiles gotta deal with all that it's going to
be all of it effectively the Pentagon has responded with a two-pronged
strategy to counter this threat inexpensive expendable unmanned
helicopters and stealthy man helicopters
unmanned helicopters will be primarily used for surveillance and for gathering
targeting information Fire Scout designed by northrop grumman was
specifically developed to take off and land on Navy ships
however the key to creating a successful man helicopter for future combat is to
make it stealthy like the f-22 but the question is can it be done receiving
stealth and a helicopter is different from self in a fixed-wing aircraft you
concerned about different signatures radar reflectivity infrared noise all
things that will give away an aircraft position those signatures like heat
smoke and sound with helicopters and their pilots at serious risk over the
battlefield all the small shoulder-fired missiles which are very effective
against helicopters are heat-seeking infrared systems the challenge for
engineers was to create a quiet helicopter with very few signatures and
a small radar cross-section
and that's exactly what Sikorsky has done with the new rh 66 command
Comanche with all the stealth capabilities we can defeat the radar
threat we can defeat the guy with the shoulder-launched heat-seeking missile
and from the guy popping up in the tree our agility defeats him are small size
are quiet acoustic signature defeats him often the first thing you hear from a
helicopter is the sound of the wake from the main road to getting the weight from
the tail rotor and the Comanche the fantail is shrouded so there is no
interaction between the fan blade tips and the main rotor tips and it's also
candid slate and those all contribute to reducing the acoustic signature
engineers also experimented with the main rotor to find a quieter design if
you look at the Comanche it's got a five-blade rotor and what that does is
it cuts down the normal chop-chop-chop sound from a helicopter into a more
distri twerp that kind of blends into the background
reducing the heat signature of a helicopter is also essential to making
it more survival when you look at the Comanche the first thing you ask
yourself is where the exhaust where does all this whole had get out of the engine
the Comanches exhaust actually escapes through the tail boom where it is
instantly dispersed by cool air from the rotor that missile has to have something
to home in on and that's a heat signature Comanche defeats that by the
engine exhaust being mixed with ambient air and cooling it so that there's no
longer of heat bloom for that missile to home in on to defeat raid on the
Comanche utilized the stealth secrets first developed for the f-117 Nighthawk
there are no radar reflecting right angles on its outer fuselage and all
weapons are carried internally to help keep it stealthy shape
what's interesting about the helicopter some of the things that achieve stealth
actually make the helicopter better things like the retractable landing gear
and the retractable weapons days that also makes it sleeker and faster so once
you've bought into the stealth part of it you get other superior attributes the
main role of the Comanche is to give commanders and overview of the
battlefield by providing up-to-the-minute information calm and
she is going to be basically they're flying cavalrymen it's going to dart in
and out / and cut be a reconnaissance vehicle
as Comanches two pilots gather data their computer shares that data with
other Allied forces when the Comanche finds the enemy
he's going to kind of direct like a quarterback to apply the firepower
defeat that enemy
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engineering advances have also made the Comanche one of the easiest and most
forgiving helicopters to fly one thing that command she brings that other
previous generation helicopters can't bring to the table is the pilot can
maneuver the Comanche and virtually any axis without fear of exceeding any
limits
although it will be used primarily for reconnaissance the Comanche will also be
armed for self-defense the Comanche is capable of carrying a wide array of
weapons all the way from guided missiles using a laser guidance system
heat-seeking missiles which would be more of an air-to-air weapon or unguided
rockets and also the latest cell fires pretty much a fire-and-forget in
addition Comanches pilots can ask Allied aircraft to fire missiles their way and
then take over and guide those missiles to their targets
if the Comanche is hit its computer system can often fix itself by
reassigning vital functions to undamaged computer cards
this is where the computer brain of the command she is
in support of its reconnaissance mission Comanche can control as many as five
unmanned aircraft when the Comanche may be employed it may have little vehicles
that it launches out so it has its own little eyes over the hill so we can see
what's going on without putting itself at risk in addition to launching its own
unmanned air vehicles Comanches may be aided on the battlefield by swarms of
locusts small intelligent missiles with their own computer brains about 31
inches long weighs a little over a hundred pounds carries a single warhead
has a laser radar in other words it has a scanning laser beam to generates
pictures the low-caste also communicate with each other and cooperate in
searches and attacks you can have a swarm of locusts asses each of which has
its own eyes
each of which is thinking but each of which is communicating with each other
send that imagery back to the operators who could either use these as
surveillance probes or in fact as weapons themselves weapons like
low-caste reflect the trend toward electronically linking all Allied forces
and weapons so that information can be shared and used by all
by networking aircraft over the battlefield with surveillance platforms
and other weapons systems commanders can quickly change missions to take
advantage of up-to-the-minute information the key to the battle of the
future is not necessarily stealth speed or firepower it's going to be
information unmanned air vehicles for uavs will provide a large part of that
information while flying long-duration surveillance missions so will the air
force of the future have no pilots since the very first use of airplanes in war
military planners have looked for ways to make aircraft more effective and more
lethal
once so secret their very existence was denied by the government unmanned air
combat vehicles or you can are now poised to take the preeminent role in
21st century air comment
UAVs are certainly going to change air power in the 21st century
you can see it starting to happen today but what we're looking at now is just
the beginning because there's going to be more of them and they're going to be
better unmanned aerial vehicles allow the military to do more with less to put
more aircraft into the air than you otherwise would be able to because of
limited number of pilots that you might have or where it might be too risky
in the future aircraft that have no pilots on board will carry out the most
dangerous combat missions today unmanned air vehicles or UAVs are already taking
over the role of long-duration surveillance UAVs don't have promised
you lose a UAV in combat and nobody bats an eyelid one of the earliest
surveillance UAVs was the predator it was developed in the early nineteen
nineties when you look at predator basically they start off as being
long-endurance systems that can really persist over the battlefield in
Afghanistan predators provided critical real-time intelligence and it was there
that a predator made an amazing transformation from surveillance to
armed aerial attack part to help our missile
I'll Qaeda convoy destroyed one of the vehicles in there at that point across
the line from unmanned aerial vehicle into an unmanned combat aerial vehicle
today the new predator B can carry up to 10 Hellfire missiles of course its
primary mission is still with the military refers to as is our or
information surveillance and reconnaissance it's basically a poor
man's satellite I mean you can bring it in and then and let it dwell an area
UAVs transmit important visual information to battlefield commanders by
a satellite or other data links once targets had been located identified and
catalog these could be disseminated other weapons and weapons systems
reconnaissance UAVs have multiple ways of conducting surveillance on clear days
they use specially stabilized optical lenses that consume too high
magnification at night they use infrared and under adverse conditions they use
synthetic aperture radar to pierce the thickest clouds sandstorms or oilfield
smoke when the radar is reflected back
it can also be used to create a 3d image of objects if the enemy chooses to use
countermeasures are decoys or deception techniques having to beat three systems
a lot harder than one the success of the predator paved the way for the
development of an even more advanced high-altitude jet-powered UAV by
northrop grumman it's called the global hawk and unlike the predator it was
designed to take off fly its pre-programmed mission and land all on
its own
thanks to the gps or global positioning satellite system the Global Hawk is
basically much larger version of the predator it has higher altitude
capabilities increased a load it can carry a lot more sensors a lot more
communication devices and it can loiter over battlefield 4 up to 35 hours the
Global Hawk can stay aloft for a day or more providing constant near real-time
video surveillance over an area the size of Illinois predator and global hawk
give us an up-close view which is something you can't get from a national
asset which would be a satellite type of thing
though still in development the Global Hawk had a dramatic impact during
Operation Iraqi Freedom a single prototype provided information to Allied
forces on fifty-five percent of all time sensitive targets including mobile scud
missile launchers
like the Air Force the Navy wanted its own autonomous UAVs however designing
one to take off and land on an aircraft carrier was a tremendous challenge but
the engineers at northrop grumman were up for it
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in the summer of 2000 they began working on the x 47 Pegasus hardest part of the
Pegasus program was definitely the flight controls getting on and off the
aircraft carrier course is one of the toughest design problems for an aircraft
and doing this with a tailless vehicle like Pegasus certainly was the toughest
probably had that problem was solved by using six innovative services to make
the plane climb descend and turn the surface just rotates up yellow bonnet
course both up and down and then there's another inlay on the lower surface as
well the first flight of Pegasus the demonstration was a very very successful
it lasted approximately 12 minutes
there was no human in the loop but could Pegasus without any human assistance
land within the tiny space between the arresting cables of an aircraft carrier
the engineers came up with an ingenious way to find out and we actually glued a
small paint ball down the bottom of the hook so we can get a clear touchdown .
that was quite an achievement that we're very proud of the Navy will use it
stealthy UAVs to get targeting information for its guns missiles and
fighter aircraft the initial focus has been on information surveillance and
reconnaissance to provide targeting information to the Navy's strike
packages
but many future UAVs such as Boeing's x45 unmanned bomber will be heavily
armed
although flying pre-programmed missions armed UAVs will still need human
permission to fire has to know where friendly forces are on the ground where
civilians might be more collateral damage
I hitting a church or a mosque might be an issue so there is a element that we
always retain where human in the loop is important you can have a weapon it's
doing its own surveillance and has its own ability to engage a target and that
gives you a level of dominance that were just emerging on right now in the
not-so-distant future there will be even more radical aircraft and airborne
weapons systems everything from electromagnetic pulse weapons
two powerful airborne lasers to hypersonic aircraft that can fly to
anywhere in the world in 2 hours or less but how soon will these high-tech
secrets become a reality
the enigmatic f-117 stealth jet flew in secret for 10 years before its existence
was revealed to the public
some of the unclassified projects that are acknowledged by the Pentagon seem
more like science fiction than reality
the military is designing a weapon system designed to neutralize an enemy
encampment or factory without destroying it and scattering nuclear biological or
chemical materials
electromagnetic pulse or EMP weapons will blast highly concentrated magnetic
field towards its target overloading and destroy any electrical components
the small electromagnetic pulse weapons offers a pretty startling capabilities
you can essentially completely destroy an enemy's electronic infrastructure in
a very precise way you can fly over small facility only a couple of acres
fire it it's only another computers work now the weapons work and other
electronics at all for work
researchers are also experimenting with an airborne chemical laser entire
aircraft has been turned into a chemical energy plant that points that laser at
target and burns through missiles this aircraft will fly at higher altitudes
and will primarily be used for scuds or ballistic targets that would be barred
from one country to another
American generals don't want a fair fight they want their equipment to be
the absolute best in the world so that whatever they come up against that can
defeat it quickly and efficiently
the battlefield of the future will continue to be a dangerous place
military planners believe that the key to maintaining the security of the
United States is to develop the weapons systems of tomorrow today
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