Article author? reserve officer, formerly in the missile units strategic purpose, and then worked for many years at defense enterprises of the military-industrial complex. Currently? inventor, scientist, author of over a hundred publications and monographs published both in our country and abroad.
Area of scientific interests? generation and transformation of energy in various natural structures.
Neither chemical nor bacteriological weapon, much less civilian airliners will not become the main weapon in the future. They will be replaced by weapons based on new physical principles. This weapon will finally change the balance of power in the world and lead to the escalation of regional military conflicts into a new full-scale world war.
Work on these weapons began in the days of President Reagan. Was it within the framework of the strategic defense initiative that the image of the ideal new weapon was created? it is a beam weapon based on new physical principles.
However, at that time it was mistakenly believed that powerful lasers would become the main element of the defensive system. In Russia, work was also carried out in this direction, and even a combat laser was tested on American space shuttles.
In the town of Sary-Shagan, a powerful laser installation "Terra-3" was built, the radiation of which was experienced by the members of the crew of the "Challenger" in 1984 when flying over the region of Lake Balkhash. The laser beam disrupted the operation of electronic equipment and caused severe ailments to the astronauts. As noted in the newspaper The New York Times (September 1, 1997), American scientists have also been actively working on the creation of effective laser anti-satellite systems.
Work on beam weapons continues into the third millennium. According to New Scientist magazine (October 24, 2001), microwave radiation generators have already been created, designed to remotely influence crowds of people.
According to the magazine, the emitter affects the human body with a narrow microwave beam. The waves penetrate the skin and quickly "heat" the affected area to a temperature of 45 degrees Celsius and above. This inevitably causes pain shock and even loss of consciousness in people exposed to these weapons.
Unfortunately, all emitters developed so far still very little correspond to the image of an ideal beam weapon. This is to blame for the extremely low efficiency of any emitter, including laser devices.
In them, only an insignificant fraction of the pump energy is transformed into the energy of a light beam, which is completely insufficient for the destruction of distant objects. No modifications help, ranging from the excimer laser to the nuclear-pumped laser.
It is necessary to create new energy sources that would be no less powerful than nuclear and have accuracy. laser weapons, but at the same time would be environmentally friendly and easily manageable over a wide range of energy values.
This would make it possible to master even such a promising theater of military operations as outer space. Such a new source of energy can only be artificial proton decay (IPD). This physical process releases thousands of times more energy than even a thermonuclear explosion.
modern science has already come close to the possibility of complete release of intraproton energy. The use of IPR will make it possible to make the transition to new revolutionary military technologies. Unlike the nuclear fission reaction, proton decays do not require any critical masses or fixed values of other parameters. Only a certain combination of them is important.
This allows you to create generators of any power and use their various modifications to a wide range types of weapons. From an individual emitter to strategic planetary complexes, power plants and transport systems. The opening possibilities for creating technical devices based on proton decay reactions are endless.
In Russia, work is also being intensively carried out to create a new generation of weapons based on the IPR, and, as noted in the Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper (No. 22, 2001), industrial designs will be ready within the next few years. The long-awaited moment is already approaching when individual successes in this direction turn into a technological breakthrough.
A critical mass of knowledge about the internal energy of protons and methods for its release in the form of radiation has been accumulated. The emergence of such technologies will certainly stimulate the creation of a new generation of weapons and disrupt the existing balance of power in the world. This weapon will become the main type of weapon in the Third World War and its use will lead to universal genocide on a planetary scale.
The power of beam weapons based on the use of IPR reaction energy theoretically has no limits. It would be more correct to say that when a certain threshold is exceeded, this weapon turns into a space weapon on a planetary scale with any necessary accuracy of action.
Any substance can be used for the IPR reaction, although, of course, there are technological features when using various elements. The main thing? choose the right parameters to start the proton decay reaction, work out the correct design of the focusing system and apply the appropriate materials.
This is the kind of weapon America dreamed of during the Reagan administration. With the introduction of combat emitters based on the reaction of proton decay, the methods of warfare will change. Military campaigns will become fleeting, and troops will no longer depend on supply lines, since proton decay is a very economical process.
The fuel for the radiation generator can be any substance that will first turn into plasma before use. Just two hundred milligrams of any substance contains the energy equivalent of twenty kilotons of TNT. This energy is equal to the power atomic bombs dropped by the Americans on Japanese cities during World War II.
The weapons of the Third World War will have to correspond to new tactics and strategies for conducting military operations. The results of specific military operations will become clear within seconds. With proper preparation, the first blow will be the last.
The use of at least a small number of properties of a new weapon opens up a huge number of new possibilities, both in terms of its modifications and in the use of its fundamentally new properties.
The most fantastic methods of warfare will become a reality, ranging from the use of kinetic versions of new weapons to environmental and even tectonic wars.
With the advent of the new beam weapon, all existing weapons limitation treaties mass destruction cease to have any strategic value.
Third World War will become a kind of purgatory of mankind. The use in this war of a new beam weapon based on the use of the IPR reaction will change the entire course of the development of human society. It will be thrown back for many years into the cave era of troglodytes. The real prize is waiting for international terrorists. Sooner or later, the new beam weapons will surely fall into their hands, and the results of their use will be terrible. When, in a few years, terrorists use these weapons to destroy European and North American nuclear power plants and nuclear fuel processing plants, the developed countries will turn into a radioactive desert.
The use of ray weapons will also radically change the entire course of the development of earthly civilization, as well as the appearance of firearms. Many countries will be wiped off the face of the Earth, entire nations will disappear, and megacities will become a desert.
The few surviving inhabitants of the planet will regret that they did not suffer a common fate. The world will plunge into the chaos of global terror. No security systems will be able to protect against new terrorist attacks. Chaos will reign everywhere and the world economy will collapse.
The modern era occupies an exceptional position in the history of mankind. It is difficult to decide when modern civilization arose, but its decline was already clearly marked. The grandeur of this historic moment is simply breathtaking. The last generations of the inhabitants of our planet live in civilized conditions, ? the era of troglodytes and cannibals is approaching.
World War III will be the apotheosis of modern civilization, its last beautiful and tragic cry. It is very important in these conditions to meet the approaching apocalypse with dignity and without unnecessary hysterics. So better first in time to develop new military technologies than to engage in sanctimonious incantations about the universal humanism of the modern era.
Novikov V.P.
Work on these weapons began in the days of President Reagan. It was within the framework of the strategic defense initiative that the image of perfect weapon a new generation - beam weapons based on new physical principles. At that time, American scientists were actively working on the creation of efficient laser systems. They mistakenly believed that powerful lasers would become the main element of the defensive system. In Russia, work was also carried out in this direction, and even a combat laser was tested on American space shuttles. A powerful laser system "Terra-3" was built at the Sary-Shagan training ground, the radiation of which was tested by the members of the Challenger crew in 1984 when flying over the area of Lake Balkhash. The laser beam disrupted the operation of electronic equipment and caused severe ailments to the astronauts.
Work on beam weapons continues into the third millennium. According to New Scientist magazine (October 24, 2001), microwave radiation generators have already been created, designed to remotely influence crowds of people. According to the magazine, the emitter affects the human body with a narrow microwave beam. The waves penetrate the skin and quickly "heat" the affected area to a temperature of 45 degrees Celsius and above. This inevitably causes pain shock and even loss of consciousness in people exposed to these weapons.
Unfortunately, all the emitters developed so far still very little correspond to the image of an ideal beam weapon. This is to blame for the extremely low efficiency of any emitter, including laser devices. In them, only an insignificant fraction of the pump energy is transformed into the energy of a light beam, which is completely insufficient for the destruction of distant objects. No modifications help, ranging from the excimer laser to the nuclear-pumped laser.
It is necessary to create new energy sources that would be no less powerful than nuclear ones and have the accuracy of laser weapons, but at the same time would be environmentally friendly and easily controllable over a wide range of energy values. This would make it possible to master even such a promising theater of military operations as outer space. Such a new source of energy can only be artificial proton decay (IRD). In this physical process, almost a hundred times more energy is released than even in a thermonuclear explosion.
Modern science has already come close to the possibility of complete release of intraproton energy. The use of the IRP will make it possible to make the transition to new revolutionary military technologies. Unlike the nuclear fission reaction, proton decays do not require any critical masses or fixed values of other parameters. Only a certain combination of them is important.
This allows you to create generators of any power and use their various modifications for a wide range of weapons. From an individual emitter to strategic planetary complexes, power plants and transport systems. The opening possibilities for creating technical devices based on proton decay reactions are endless.
In Russia, work is also underway to create a new generation of weapons based on the IRP, and, as noted in the newspaper Moskovskie Novosti (# 22, 2001), industrial designs will be ready within the next few years. The long-awaited moment is already approaching when individual successes in this direction turn into a technological breakthrough.
A critical mass of knowledge about the internal energy of protons and methods for its release in the form of radiation has been accumulated. The emergence of such technologies will certainly stimulate the creation of a new generation of weapons and disrupt the existing balance of power in the world. This weapon will become the main type of weapon in the Third World War and its use will lead to universal genocide on a planetary scale.
The power of beam weapons based on the use of the reaction energy of the IRP theoretically has no limits. It would be more correct to say that when a certain threshold is exceeded, this weapon turns into a space weapon on a planetary scale with any necessary accuracy of action.
Any substance can be used for the IRP reaction, although, of course, there are technological features when using various elements. The main thing is to choose the right parameters to start the proton decay reaction, work out the correct design of the focusing system and use the appropriate materials.
This is the kind of weapon America dreamed of during the Reagan administration. With the introduction of combat emitters based on the reaction of proton decay, the methods of warfare will change. Military companies will become fleeting, and troops will no longer depend on supply lines, since proton decay is a very economical process. The fuel for the radiation generator can be any substance that will first turn into plasma before use. Just two hundred milligrams of any substance contains the energy equivalent of twenty kilotons of TNT. This energy is equal to the power of the atomic bombs dropped by the Americans on Japanese cities during World War II.
The weapons of the Third World War will have to correspond to new tactics and strategies for conducting military operations. The results of specific military operations will become clear within seconds. With proper preparation, the first blow will be the last. The use of at least a small number of properties of a new weapon opens up a huge number of new possibilities, both in terms of its modifications and in the use of its fundamentally new properties.
The most fantastic methods of warfare will become a reality, ranging from the use of kinetic versions of new weapons to environmental and even tectonic wars. With the advent of new beam weapons, all existing treaties on the limitation of weapons of mass destruction will cease to have any strategic significance. The third world war will become a kind of purgatory for humanity. The use in this war of a new beam weapon based on the use of the IRP reaction will change the entire course of the development of human society. It will be thrown back for many years into the cave era of troglodytes.
The real prize awaits international terrorists. Sooner or later, the new beam weapons will surely fall into their hands, and the results of their use will be terrible. When, in a few years, terrorists use these weapons to destroy European and North American nuclear power plants and nuclear fuel processing plants, the developed countries will turn into a radioactive desert.
The use of beam weapons will also radically change the entire course of the development of earthly civilization, as well as the appearance of firearms in due time. Many countries will be wiped off the face of the earth, entire nations will disappear, and megacities will become a desert. The few surviving inhabitants of the planet will regret that they did not suffer a common fate. The world will plunge into the abyss of global terror. No security systems will be able to protect against new terrorist attacks. Chaos will reign everywhere and the world economy will collapse.
The modern era occupies an exceptional position in the history of mankind. It is difficult to decide when modern civilization arose, but its decline was already clearly marked. The grandeur of this historic moment is simply breathtaking. The last generations of the inhabitants of our planet live in civilized conditions - the era of troglodytes and cannibals is approaching.
World War III will be the apotheosis of modern civilization, its last beautiful and tragic cry. It is very important in these conditions to meet the approaching apocalypse with dignity and without unnecessary hysterics. Therefore, it is better to be the first to develop new military technologies in time than to engage in sanctimonious incantations about the universal humanism of the modern era.
Weapons of the third world warWork on these weapons began in the days of President Reagan. It was within the framework of the strategic defense initiative that the image of an ideal weapon of a new generation was created - a beam weapon based on new physical principles. At that time, American scientists were actively working on the creation of efficient laser systems. They mistakenly believed that powerful lasers would become the main element of the defensive system. In Russia, work was also carried out in this direction, and even a combat laser was tested on American space shuttles. A powerful laser system "Terra-3" was built at the Sary-Shagan training ground, the radiation of which was tested by the members of the Challenger crew in 1984 when flying over the area of Lake Balkhash. The laser beam disrupted the operation of electronic equipment and caused severe ailments to the astronauts.
Work on beam weapons continues into the third millennium. According to New Scientist magazine (October 24, 2001), microwave radiation generators have already been created, designed to remotely influence crowds of people. According to the magazine, the emitter affects the human body with a narrow microwave beam. The waves penetrate the skin and quickly "heat" the affected area to a temperature of 45 degrees Celsius and above. This inevitably causes pain shock and even loss of consciousness in people exposed to these weapons.
Unfortunately, all the emitters developed so far still very little correspond to the image of an ideal beam weapon. This is to blame for the extremely low efficiency of any emitter, including laser devices. In them, only an insignificant fraction of the pump energy is transformed into the energy of a light beam, which is completely insufficient for the destruction of distant objects. No modifications help, ranging from the excimer laser to the nuclear-pumped laser.
It is necessary to create new energy sources that would be no less powerful than nuclear ones and have the accuracy of laser weapons, but at the same time would be environmentally friendly and easily controllable over a wide range of energy values. This would make it possible to master even such a promising theater of military operations as outer space. Such a new source of energy can only be artificial proton decay (IRD). In this physical process, almost a hundred times more energy is released than even in a thermonuclear explosion.
Modern science has already come close to the possibility of complete release of intraproton energy. The use of the IRP will make it possible to make the transition to new revolutionary military technologies. Unlike the nuclear fission reaction, proton decays do not require any critical masses or fixed values of other parameters. Only a certain combination of them is important.
This allows you to create generators of any power and use their various modifications for a wide range of weapons. From an individual emitter to strategic planetary complexes, power plants and transport systems. The opening possibilities for creating technical devices based on proton decay reactions are endless.
In Russia, work is also underway to create a new generation of weapons based on the IRP, and, as noted in the newspaper Moskovskie Novosti (# 22, 2001), industrial designs will be ready within the next few years. The long-awaited moment is already approaching when individual successes in this direction turn into a technological breakthrough.
A critical mass of knowledge about the internal energy of protons and methods for its release in the form of radiation has been accumulated. The emergence of such technologies will certainly stimulate the creation of a new generation of weapons and disrupt the existing balance of power in the world. This weapon will become the main type of weapon in the Third World War and its use will lead to universal genocide on a planetary scale.
The power of beam weapons based on the use of the reaction energy of the IRP theoretically has no limits. It would be more correct to say that when a certain threshold is exceeded, this weapon turns into a space weapon on a planetary scale with any necessary accuracy of action.
Any substance can be used for the IRP reaction, although, of course, there are technological features when using various elements. The main thing is to choose the right parameters to start the proton decay reaction, work out the correct design of the focusing system and use the appropriate materials.
This is the kind of weapon America dreamed of during the Reagan administration. With the introduction of combat emitters based on the reaction of proton decay, the methods of warfare will change. Military companies will become fleeting, and troops will no longer depend on supply lines, since proton decay is a very economical process. The fuel for the radiation generator can be any substance that will first turn into plasma before use. Just two hundred milligrams of any substance contains the energy equivalent of twenty kilotons of TNT. This energy is equal to the power of the atomic bombs dropped by the Americans on Japanese cities during World War II.
The weapons of the Third World War will have to correspond to new tactics and strategies for conducting military operations. The results of specific military operations will become clear within seconds. With proper preparation, the first blow will be the last. The use of at least a small number of properties of a new weapon opens up a huge number of new possibilities, both in terms of its modifications and in the use of its fundamentally new properties.
The most fantastic methods of warfare will become a reality, ranging from the use of kinetic versions of new weapons to environmental and even tectonic wars. With the advent of new beam weapons, all existing treaties on the limitation of weapons of mass destruction will cease to have any strategic significance. The third world war will become a kind of purgatory for humanity. The use in this war of a new beam weapon based on the use of the IRP reaction will change the entire course of the development of human society. It will be thrown back for many years into the cave era of troglodytes.
The real prize awaits international terrorists. Sooner or later, the new beam weapons will surely fall into their hands, and the results of their use will be terrible. When, in a few years, terrorists use these weapons to destroy European and North American nuclear power plants and nuclear fuel processing plants, the developed countries will turn into a radioactive desert.
The use of beam weapons will also radically change the entire course of the development of earthly civilization, as well as the appearance of firearms in due time. Many countries will be wiped off the face of the earth, entire nations will disappear, and megacities will become a desert. The few surviving inhabitants of the planet will regret that they did not suffer a common fate. The world will plunge into the abyss of global terror. No security systems will be able to protect against new terrorist attacks. Chaos will reign everywhere and the world economy will collapse.
The modern era occupies an exceptional position in the history of mankind. It is difficult to decide when modern civilization arose, but its decline was already clearly marked. The grandeur of this historic moment is simply breathtaking. The last generations of the inhabitants of our planet live in civilized conditions - the era of troglodytes and cannibals is approaching.
World War III will be the apotheosis of modern civilization, its last beautiful and tragic cry. It is very important in these conditions to meet the approaching apocalypse with dignity and without unnecessary hysterics. Therefore, it is better to be the first to develop new military technologies in time than to engage in sanctimonious incantations about the universal humanism of the modern era.
Part of the impending technological leap will be another "military revolution" - promising developments that have been progressing sluggishly since the late 1960s are unexpectedly quickly becoming practical.
Among the key technologies, first of all, it is worth mentioning weapons based on new physical principles (ONFP) - combat lasers, microwave emitters and electromagnetic rail guns (railguns).
Tactical combat lasers with a power of 100-150 kilowatts and a range of about 20 km are already close to real use. For a decade and a half, stationary structures weighing almost two hundred tons have shrunk to the size that allows you to install such a "tool" on an ordinary truck, armored personnel carrier, drone or fighter. Chemical lasers, using super-aggressive fluorine and expensive deuterium, have been replaced by solid-state systems, the needs of which are limited to diesel fuel for diesel generators. Solid-state lasers of the megawatt class are a matter of a more distant future, but the reincarnation of the American "laser carrier" ABL at a new technical level is almost inevitable.
In other words, a very effective weapon will soon be in the hands of the military - the laser energy is sent to the target almost instantly and in a straight line, which ensures "surgical" accuracy. This opens up fundamentally new opportunities for intercepting high-speed and/or small-sized targets - aircraft, missiles, MLRS rockets and cannon artillery shells. From this it follows, for example, that key objects on land (command posts, positions of anti-aircraft missiles and artillery) will be covered by a laser "shield", and aviation will be able to actively defend against air defense. In addition, tactical lasers can operate in the "giant" mode. sniper rifle".
The development of "microwave ovens" is also quite successful. The best-known weapon of this kind is ADS, a non-lethal system that creates unbearable pain in politically disloyal citizens at a distance of up to half a kilometer. However, the main purpose of microwave weapons is to disable electronics. Rayteon already offers a microwave defense system for airports from MANPADS, next in line is "large" air defense. "Microwaves" rightly claim the title of "radar killers", both ground and aviation. The same emitters can be effectively used to combat high-precision "smart" weapons.
Electromagnetic artillery is also developing. BAE Systems and General Atomics have already presented workable models of guns, having managed to solve the key problem of EM guns - the monstrous wear of the “barrel”. By 2020, the US Navy should receive a rail gun with a capacity of 32 megajoules and a range of 180 km; in perspective we are talking about 64 megajoules and a four hundred kilometer range ..
Thus, artillery approaches the range of missiles, but at the same time retains its traditional advantages. Firstly, high fire performance - an electromagnetic gun is capable of unleashing a hail of "blanks" on the enemy. Secondly, the cheapness of ammunition - even "advanced" shells cost hundreds of times less than missiles. Thirdly, a huge ammunition load. Fourthly, safety (instead of highly explosive powder and rocket magazines, the "railgun carrier" manages with a mass of metal). Fifthly, the extreme difficulty of intercepting the projectile.
So far, the fleet claims to be the main user of electromagnetic weapons. However, BAE Systems is also considering an option with a ground-based self-propelled gun equipped with a 32-megajoule gun. At the same time, electromagnetic guns can also become ideal "anti-aircraft guns" capable of destroying even highly protected air targets like ICBM warheads.
Another important innovation is hypersonic technology. They develop in two main directions. The first is the creation of devices with a hypersonic ramjet engine (scramjet), theoretically allowing to obtain up to seventeen speeds of sound (17M). The most famous machines of this type are X-51 and X-43. Kh-51 is a prototype hypersonic cruise missile capable of flying 1,600 km at a speed of 7 times the speed of sound on conventional hydrocarbon fuel. The apparatus has one relatively successful test (the engine worked for about 200 seconds, five times the speed of sound was reached) and one failure. The X-43 is a purely experimental machine, equipped with a hydrogen scramjet. At the beginning of the 2000s, two successful tests were carried out, the speed was 9.6 M.
The second direction is the creation of non-motorized "ballistic gliders" that receive a one-time "impulse" from rocket boosters or a hypersonic aircraft, and then move by inertia "bounces" from the atmosphere. Now these are two projects: AHW and Falcon HTV-2. The HTV-2 was marked by two unsuccessful tests, but managed to reach a speed of 22 times the speed of sound. The planned range is about 20 thousand km. AHW is less ambitious - the test was carried out at a speed of 5M with a range of 3.5 thousand km and was successful.
Obviously, intercontinental-range hypersonic weapons will have to wait, but medium-range missiles and ballistic gliders are already realistic. At the same time, the Kh-51 and AHW have approximately the same speed as medium-range ballistic missiles, and the HTV-2 already corresponds in this sense to a full-fledged intercontinental missile. In fact, we have vehicles that have both options for ballistic and cruise missiles. High speed is inherited from the former; from the second - the ability to maneuver and a relatively low flight profile (20-30 km - for ballistic missiles at apogee up to 1 thousand km), which makes it possible not to light up on missile defense radars. This makes hypersonics an extremely problematic target: speed allows you to ignore conventional air defense, and maneuvering - anti-missiles. The latter are designed to intercept "passive" ballistic targets and have very dubious maneuverability at high speeds. Thus, modern air defense / missile defense will be practically useless against hypersonic weapons.
Meanwhile, the energy of a projectile accelerated to five to eight speeds of sound is enough to destroy very highly protected targets - from a bunker and pillbox to a tank. High speed allows you to deal very successfully with "fast" targets. At the same time, not only a kinetic penetrator or an explosive charge can act as a payload, but also a set of "smart" homing ammunition, or a kind of "shrapnel" to destroy manpower, or, finally, an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. Apparently, in the future, hypersonic vehicles will replace ballistic missiles as a delivery vehicle. nuclear weapons.
Finally, the third key innovation is the surge in military robotics activity. Unmanned aircraft have long become mainstream and in the foreseeable future will make up the majority of the flying "livestock". Sea and land robots are still more exotic, but progress is noticeable here too. At the same time, not only quantitative, but also qualitative growth is taking place - unmanned vehicles are becoming more and more autonomous. fighting will be built around the interaction of manned and unmanned platforms - so, together with tanks and infantry, a swarm of different-sized (ground and air) robots will go into battle.
Visual stealth technologies are also rapidly developing. First of all, we are talking about metamaterials - composites with a negative refractive index that can hide an object, forcing light rays to bypass it, or create optical illusions, reducing, enlarging or shifting the image. However, the results achieved here are still far from real application. A more conservative technology is coatings that "project" an image of the surrounding "landscape" or other objects that are less attractive to the enemy onto the surface of an object. Classic example- the Adaptiv system, which allows you to effectively deceive thermal imagers, "turning" a tank into a boulder, an SUV, a cow, or simply helping it blend into the surroundings in the infrared.
Military equipment will become a "blurred spot", and in a successful scenario, we will talk about the appearance of "partially invisible" fighters. A related direction is the creation of "combat phantoms", "ghostly" holographic objects, distracting and disorienting the "adversary".
The first samples of fully functional exoskeletons, walking machines, and means for effective manipulation of the minds of soldiers are also appearing (read more about this here).
The introduction of this set of technologies will mean a radical "mutation" military equipment. For example, the materializing concept of the sixth generation fighter differs from its predecessors in much the same way that jet aircraft differ from piston aircraft.
We are talking about an optionally manned, that is, capable of operating in UAV mode, a machine with a speed of about five times the speed of sound, equipped with laser and microwave weapons, plus hypersonic missiles. An additional option is multispectral stealth - in other words, the aircraft will be poorly visible not only on radars. In the future, the creation of reusable hypersonic bombers with speeds up to Mach 17 is also likely. When equipped with additional rocket boosters, we can already talk about suborbital or low-orbital flights: 17M is more than 2/3 of the first space speed, despite the fact that scramjet engines are 2.5-10 times more economical than rocket engines.
At sea, the reincarnation of neolinkors is possible: ships whose main weapon will again be artillery, supplemented by hypersonic missiles, and the main defense will be laser and microwave anti-missile systems.
In other words, the battlefield will change radically. It is rather difficult to say how technologies will interact, but in general terms, the shape of the war of the future is already visible.
The first strike is a "volley" of long-range hypersonic missiles that destroy the most important stationary enemy targets (air defense command posts, communication centers, airfields, etc.) and attacks by hypersonic bombers. At the same time, hypersonic strikers will inevitably collide with hypersonic interceptors - air battles in the upper atmosphere, smoothly flowing into orbital ones, can become a harsh reality.
Then comes the turn of tactical "atmospheric" aircraft (mostly unmanned), carrying out a more detailed "cleansing" of air defense with intensive use of tactical hypersonic missiles and microwave emitters. In response, the Earth will bristle with the same "microwaves", hypersonic anti-aircraft missiles, lasers and electromagnetic guns. Over the theater of operations, battles will unfold between aircraft of new generations. Hypersonic air-to-air missiles will become the main means of hitting targets at long and ultra-long distances, but their carriers will have to face an extremely inconspicuous enemy armed with laser and microwave self-defense systems. As a result, relatively close air combat will also be preserved, but it will look fundamentally different from the current "dog dump" with the use of guns - a fight between aircraft equipped with laser weapons can last a matter of seconds.
Ground forces will go on the offensive with the support of ultra-long-range electromagnetic artillery - it is she who, pushing aviation into the background, will take over the function " long arm". Battle formations will be closed from artillery and missile strikes laser and electromagnetic defense systems. Heavy armored vehicles will retain their dominant role, but will act in the "company" of a swarm of unmanned "vehicles" ranging in size from a full-fledged armored vehicle to an "insect" and will be able to deliver over-the-horizon strikes with hypersonic weapons. However, advanced systems to intercept the entire attacker and increased stealth will retain a significant role for close combat. The zone of application of relatively heavy equipment will expand - walking mechanisms will pass where tanks are unable to pass, bypassing the flanks and penetrating the rear.
The infantry will not go anywhere from the battlefield either - but it will be another infantry, armored, inconspicuous and fighting in a team with military robots and mini-drones. At the same time, as in other cases, high security and stealth will keep the role of close combat at a high level. In general, in the long term, the role of numerous ground forces will even increase.
"Old" technologies, such as a single information field, will also be further developed - in particular, the command will be able to track and correct the emotional state of soldiers (for example, using transcranial ultrasound stimulation). The warring army will become a deeply integrated and controlled system.
In other words, one should expect radical changes in the field of military equipment and combat tactics.
Evgeny Pozhidaev
Work on these weapons began in the days of President Reagan. It was within the framework of the strategic defense initiative that the image of an ideal weapon of a new generation was created - a beam weapon based on new physical principles. At that time, American scientists were actively working on the creation of efficient laser systems. They mistakenly believed that powerful lasers would become the main element of the defensive system. In Russia, work was also carried out in this direction, and even a combat laser was tested on American space shuttles. A powerful laser system "Terra-3" was built at the Sary-Shagan training ground, the radiation of which was tested by the members of the Challenger crew in 1984 when flying over the area of Lake Balkhash. The laser beam disrupted the operation of electronic equipment and caused severe ailments to the astronauts.
Work on beam weapons continues into the third millennium. According to New Scientist magazine (October 24, 2001), microwave radiation generators have already been created, designed to remotely influence crowds of people. According to the magazine, the emitter affects the human body with a narrow microwave beam. The waves penetrate the skin and quickly "heat" the affected area to a temperature of 45 degrees Celsius and above. This inevitably causes pain shock and even loss of consciousness in people exposed to these weapons.
Unfortunately, all the emitters developed so far still very little correspond to the image of an ideal beam weapon. This is to blame for the extremely low efficiency of any emitter, including laser devices. In them, only an insignificant fraction of the pump energy is transformed into the energy of a light beam, which is completely insufficient for the destruction of distant objects. No modifications help, ranging from the excimer laser to the nuclear-pumped laser.
It is necessary to create new energy sources that would be no less powerful than nuclear ones and have the accuracy of laser weapons, but at the same time would be environmentally friendly and easily controllable over a wide range of energy values. This would make it possible to master even such a promising theater of military operations as outer space. Such a new source of energy can only be artificial proton decay (IRD). In this physical process, almost a hundred times more energy is released than even in a thermonuclear explosion.
Modern science has already come close to the possibility of complete release of intraproton energy. The use of the IRP will make it possible to make the transition to new revolutionary military technologies. Unlike the nuclear fission reaction, proton decays do not require any critical masses or fixed values of other parameters. Only a certain combination of them is important.
This allows you to create generators of any power and use their various modifications for a wide range of weapons. From an individual emitter to strategic planetary complexes, power plants and transport systems. The opening possibilities for creating technical devices based on proton decay reactions are endless.
In Russia, work is also underway to create a new generation of weapons based on the IRP, and, as noted in the newspaper Moskovskie Novosti (# 22, 2001), industrial designs will be ready within the next few years. The long-awaited moment is already approaching when individual successes in this direction turn into a technological breakthrough.
A critical mass of knowledge about the internal energy of protons and methods for its release in the form of radiation has been accumulated. The emergence of such technologies will certainly stimulate the creation of a new generation of weapons and disrupt the existing balance of power in the world. This weapon will become the main type of weapon in the Third World War and its use will lead to universal genocide on a planetary scale.
