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Say you really want to wipe something the gently caress off the planet, but don't want all that pesky radiation that comes from nuclear explosions. Kinetic Bombardment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment Essentially, you take a rod of tungsten the same side as a telegraph pole, you put it on a satellite, and you drop it, from orbit, on whatever you want dead. No explosion, no radiation, just a giant log of hugely dense metal making contact with the earth while travelling at Mach 10.
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The Obrez. A WW2 invention by Russian troops. During city fighting, they realized their Mosin Nagant rifles were too long for the enclosed areas cityfighting takes place in. Their solution? Take a hacksaw to the Mosin Nagant and chop it into something you could use one handed. The power was such that if you fired it within a few feet of the target, there was a decent chance you'd not only shoot them, but burn them with the muzzle flash too.
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Apr 11, 2015 22:19
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Yeah, from what I understand, the Hwacha wasn't to actually kill people, it was to force them to break formation so they're easier to charge.
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Apr 18, 2015 20:20
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Son of Rodney posted:Dude, you literally say armspan in your own sentence. As in, the amount of space between your fingertips when you put your arms out to your side. Your armspan and height are directly connected.
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May 18, 2015 23:23
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KillHour posted:It's pretty telling how DARPA went from "We're funding robots to help troops on the battlefield carry heavy poo poo" to "We're funding robots to pull people out of collapsed buildings" in just a few years. "Yeah, we're funding robots so we can avoid any more human deaths in warfare!" "But wouldn't that make every soldier in the armed forces redundant?" "I MEAN, ROBOTS PILOTED BY HUMANS TO SAVE OTHER HUMANS. PLENTY OF HUMANS."
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