Summer blockbuster season is switched to a higher gear and big-budget films - "The Avengers," "Battleship" and "Prometheus" - that remind us that we are, and Americans share a common fear of attack by the aliens.
These paintings tell us that mankind will not give up without a fight and not capitulate to intergalactic invaders. No, we all stand together as one, and will repulse the invaders, equipped with advanced weapons for its incredible ... what exactly? Are we really to fight and win our potential alien invaders?
Fortunately, the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Ministry of Defense, better known by its acronym, DARPA, and some of the world's largest arms manufacturers today come up with the weapons of tomorrow. Use everything you can - from lasers and hypersonic aircraft aviation to cloaks invisible - we can fight for Mother Earth as equals. You think we're joking? But why do we have to send to NASA's International Space Station movie "The Avengers," as not to study its astronauts as field manuals? Below is a brief description of some of the fittest for the conduct of space wars inventions that are now being implemented. The high-energy liquid laser HELLADS for territorial defense
Official name sounds a bit unclear and too peaceful, but that should not fool you: the battle of the installation - menacing laser beam. Advanced lasers, currently under development at DARPA, enjoyed increased attention from designers the ability to "conquer the speed and power of the world and confront the many threats." Laser weapons - is today a reality, but the available lasers are too big to be used in a real fight. However, the Advanced Research Projects Agency hopes to soon provide weapons to 150 kilowatts, which is light enough to be mounted on a fighter. It comes in handy when the first batch of attacking UFOs fly out of his mother ship.
Hypersonic aircraft Researchers at the Battle of Yavin, the Galactic Civil War can attest that sometimes the fate of the entire universe may depend on several desperate pilots. But to destroy adversary space need not only piloting skills. We need to be the most modern jet aircraft to repel the alien fleet. And the name of the Falcon HTV-2 (falcon - it falcon - approx. Trans.) Sounds just perfect. Let's pause and evaluate the statistics provided by DARPA.
Falcon HTV-2 - is an unmanned, launch missiles, highly maneuverable aircraft piercing the Earth's atmosphere at extremely high speed (about 20,000 kilometers per hour). At that speed, HTV-2 flies distance from New York to Los Angeles in less than 12 minutes. This aircraft - this is also a car data from multiple sensors, the information gathered in the "ambiguous combat situation." Amazing! How did the designers managed to make such an incredible aircraft work? Well, so far they have. The last test flight, which took place in August last year, ended with the military lost contact with the machine in the 36th minute. Later it was reported that the HTV-2 literally flew out of his own skin. Aviaadaptivnoe management of optical beam
After studying tai fighters and Cylon raiders of intergalactic kinovoyn, we know that small aircraft alien villains can prevail even over our most modern jet aircraft, when the question arises of maneuverability. Therefore, it is hoped that by the time the aggressor Sixpawed aliens attack our pilots (and caps), they will already be equipped with the systems that are currently being developed in the depths of DARPA. The purpose of the system - to "enhance the performance characteristics of high power lasers for military aircraft for use in the rear hemisphere against enemy targets - such as attacking missiles." Well, maybe a victory in the air battle and they do not provide, but it will buy time until the arrival of the main body.
Helicopter rotary wing
Everyone knows that the alien ships do not have to awkwardly run up on the runway to take off - they rise vertically, keeping perfect balance, and then carry them in any desired direction. Our helicopters can also take off vertically, but even the best machine designs can suffer an accident during landing, as demonstrated by the invisible helicopter MH-60 Black Hawk, used in the operation to eliminate Osama bin Laden. Helicopter rotary wing - it's actually kind of a cross between a helicopter and an airplane. He is capable of vertical take-off and landing, but can also shift to a high-speed flight, for which his telescopic blade retracts into the disk of the wing, allowing the machine to fly an aircraft. Will it help in battles with aliens? We hope so.
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T-90AM presented at the VIII International Exhibition of Arms
Nuclear submarines new design
The film "Battleship" recalls that his attack aggressor space can start from anywhere. In case the battle will occur at sea, the U.S. Navy is developing a new submarine, which is to replace the class nuclear-powered ship "Ohio." In the structure of her plan to introduce in 2029. Most of the submarines "Ohio" is on board a submarine-launched ballistic missiles, which can be up to 24 units on each missile carriers. This is - the sea part of the American nuclear arsenal. Price of new boats, called SSBN-X (submarine advanced sample) will be at least 4.9 billion dollars each, although there are estimates and 9 billion. Quite expensive, especially when you consider that the increase in defense spending has been the subject of sharp criticism in terms of austerity measures. But hey, new boats - they will save humanity from destruction! Therefore, they will pay off.Unmanned complex tracking submarines
Anyone who has seen "The Abyss" and "Sphere" (yes, "Sphere", few looked), knows that the aliens may well come not only from space, and under water. Let's hope that soon we will be able to track their preparatory actions in the thickness of the oceans by means of device ACTUV (unmanned complex tracking submarines). This action alone, unmanned surface vessels, possessing the ability to track down even the most silent submarine. When the ship did, he would be different from the existing unmanned surface vessels that can operate independently in the open ocean in isolation from the major surface ships of the fleet. America is ready for the era of sea drones. And the aliens?
System precision sniping (EXACTO)
Detectors sights We do not know with any newcomers face in the ground battle - whether they will be awkward ksenomorfov prawns or quick, but, being armed for machines detection sights, we'll be ready for anything. These plants are equipped with optical and infrared cameras, are designed to "search, locate and destroy the firing system or person, and also to deal with a host of other threats, including bullets, antitank missiles, rockets and mortars, the leading direct fire." That is, the goals can be both fixed and mobile. The idea is to detect and identify threats quickly, so our automatic system or the military in the car could react. Well, Slyme, incident - and get it!
Magnetohydrodynamic bomb
On the ground, our soldiers will have an advantage over the little green men, if they get ammunition, the title for which there is a certain resemblance to the superhero Magneto in "X-Men." They still have a very appropriate for blockbuster abbreviation MAHEM (medley). (What the engineers come up with these names?) These munitions used "generator of compressed electromagnetic flux, which pushes reactive struyugidrodinamicheski formed of metal." Advanced Research strongly deny that this is what it means, but it seems we are talking about using a magnetic field to start the molten metal into the target.
Space-based infrared system SBIRS
When you fight with alien invaders, the battlefield is truly global. Yes, today the SBIRS program is known only to delays in the development and increasing costs. But we are happy to have spent these billions, when we fly rockets aliens. SBIRS, which is given on consecutive Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, will consist of a series of satellites placed in an elliptical orbit and geostationary orbit, as well - from surface data centers. And it is something can pinpoint missile launches and nuclear explosions anywhere in the world. The first SBIRS satellite was launched in 2011, but we hope that the whole system is in working order and ready for battle before Loki will open a portal to the underworld.
Aliens can move quickly, and they will be hard to hit. This is - a serious problem for the sniper-man, but soon it will be resolved. DARPA is developing the world's first controlled bullet that will change its trajectory after a shot. In the Time article in 2009, these bullets are described as follows: "Munitions, which after a shot on goal flies to it, changing its shape." He is very handy when intervener penetrate into us in the form of some of the parasite, and then slowly take advantage of our body as a cocoon for the development, and then break it, appearing to the world in his terrible glory, accompanied by splashes of our blood. Well, in this scenario, the bullet actually will help, but it is better to err on the safe side than sorry.
Adaptive Armor
Newcomers, like the notorious predator, got the opportunity to see in the infrared range. Well, it is - not a problem, thanks to a very strange armor company BAE Systems. Adaptive armor in the form of reflecting elements covers all vehicles, and the principle of its action is that it can quickly change the temperature. Airborne thermal cameras capture the thermal environment and combat vehicle trail that it can not be detected in the infrared. To get away from the enemy, with this armor can even simulate the thermal characteristics of the other vehicle. But if the war machine with adaptive armor at your hand there, you can always hide in the mud, as does Arnold in his movies.
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