Showing posts with label military equipment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label military equipment. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

About 3D-printed weapons


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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The United States Of America has legalized the 3D-printed weapons. Manufacturing the 3D-printed weapons is quite expensive, and there is needed 3D-printer, what can produce steel parts. That thing is a modified MIG-welding machine, and it's quite expensive. Also, the system needs the CAD-models of every single part of the gun, and then the system must be sharp enough, that the parts would be fitted together. This is why normal people must not be worried about this technology, and that kind of systems are actually so expensive, that lone gunmaker would not have change or willing to pay the prize about that machine.


When we are thinking about the tests, where the guns are made by using 3D-printers, the parts of the weapon have been scanned by using laser scanners for taking precise right form and dimensions of every part of that weapon. So this is the very expensive project, and that's why would be easier to produce illegal weapons by using conventional methods. That's why those weapons, what are made by using 3D-printers  are not very common in the hands of hobbyists and other persons.


But those expensive manufacturing tools can be bought by the actors like drug cartels and Mafia, but those organizations have their channels, where they can get weapons. And also some motorcycle clubs may have the interest to buy the 3D-printing system, what can manufacture weapons. As you see, manufacturing the machine parts is not so easy, as people normally believe. The dimensions and form of the part must be made exactly right, or the gun or another machine would not work. Of course is possible that somebody would draw the gun parts by using CAD-programs or scans them to the net by using laser-scanners.


And there is an application for the mobile telephone, what can be used for that thing, but the scanning must happen in the right way, and the telephone should not shake during the process. Of course, there is need the model, what can be used for that action. This is the question of the 3D-printed weapons. If somebody would want this stuff, that person would get it, but that would need highly professionalism to make working weapons or other machines. But there are organizations, what are willing to pay for those skills.

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Sunday, May 20, 2018

A little tale about Rhodesia and forgotten wars in Africa (Mercenaries never die, they just go to hell to regroup)

Cessna A337 (Minuguns  are not in the picture)
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

There are many conflicts in the world, what are ever mentioned in public media. Those conflicts are financed by illegal diamonds, what are dug from the Democratic Republic of Congo and other countries, where corrupted governments don't do anything for ordinary people. That's why the real power in those areas is in the hands of warlords, what are actually the bosses of some gangs.


Those gangs seem like some "Hells Angels" but their action is open and those gangs have even combat helicopters in their arsenal. In that case, those gangs have millions of dollar incoming fund if somebody wants to buy those diamonds. And even if the trade of those diamonds is illegal, the problem of that trade is criminal organizations like Mafia, what would change those diamonds to drugs like amphetamine and medical equipment, what are also needed in those places. And of course, Kalashnikovs and other weapons are very wanted products in that sector of illegal trade of diamonds. Many warlords of that area use mercenaries to support their organizations.


Have you ever heard about so-called "Rhodesian bush-war", what ended the era of white government in that area, and raised Robert Mugabe to the power in Zimbabwe, what is actually former Rhodesia, what changed it's named to Zimbabwe when that country returned as the British colony in 1979, but then after year later this country re-independent as the named Zimbabwe. The returning as the colony was everywhere seemed as the possibility to get support for the civil war from Great Britain. The reason, why I write about this country, is that in this civil war were fought many mercenary-soldiers, who are often mentioned in some cases of political assassinations. There are films about that war on YouTube, and there is very well seen, what kind of equipment is used in that war. And similar weapons and equipment are in use with many anti-guerilla operations and the way to operate those systems is normally similar in almost every case, where the aircraft is used.


First, the high flying jet aircraft would make the recon flights to some area, because they can cover very large areas in short time. This is very important because of those guerrillas would not be allowed to see those recon planes, what are taking photographs of that area. Then the strike-team arrives, and in those operations is used some quite slow and common aircraft and helicopters. Normally in the operations are used by Cessnas, what is equipped with rocket launchers and GAU-2 "Miniguns". Those  Cessnas might also have one minigun under their body, what gives extra firepower to that simple war machine. Similar equipment is used in Gazelle combat helicopters, where is twin machine guns in the side of the helicopter and miniguns in the middle, or there might be also rocket cassettes, what gives them high firepower.


Those systems are easy to install in any aircraft, and for that action, the installer doesn't need to have any NASA skills. And selling any airplane in conflict area might cause, that is used for military actions. The use of electric cannons makes easy to operate them, and it is needed only to put there one circuit switcher, and the pilot can operate them. Some AC-3 Dakota-gunships have similar systems and those gunships are also equipped with infrared cameras and in those aircraft is only needed for one man, who operates that minigun. Those gunships can also take paratroopers in the cargo bay, and the miniguns can be turned away from the doors.


When we are looking at the marching footage, we would see that some of those warriors use liquefication bags and internal droplet for surviving in that very hot place. In Africa finds many wars and conflicts, what normal people would ever hear. Rhodesian bush war is one of them, even that conflict ended years ago. But it is still school example of anti-guerrilla operations and many mercenaries, who worked in 1980's and 1990's began their career in that conflict. And many things, what happened there are still hidden in those bushes of that country. In that film is a part, where fly "Huey" helicopters, what was well known from Vietnam war.


Sometimes I have thought that the photographing that equipment had the purpose, was suggest the USA would give support for the government of Rhodesia, what was taken military support mainly from South Africa. Normally mercenaries work in two lines. They might give training to some organizations, and in this case, they would not take part in strikes, but sometimes those men want to see how their customers work in those situations, that this mercenary would know how to give right kind of training for those persons. This means that they make SWOT or necessity analyses about their customers, what are sometimes very feared and brutal men. Also, mercenaries are used in specific killing missions, where they might fly thousands of kilometers to combat zone, jump straight near them to the target, and then assassinate the leaders of opposite force or make some other things like destroying some important weapon cargo.


But sometimes those men are making war crimes and some of them are selling their services to some mafia-men. Those men are normally hired by some "security companies", what are giving jobs for those "dogs of war". There are claims that the official companies of war have no problems with the law in the Western countries, but there might be some unofficial companies, what would deliver also assassination jobs for their clients. And those companies claim that their workers are making some mining or forest work, and there are rumors that some of those people have very long and heavy criminal registrations.


They are good targets for recruiters of mercenaries because many of those people have no contact with their homes and families, and they might be also unemployed, and loss of money makes them sometimes allowed to take those contracts. That means nobody notices if they are sometimes out from their home. Also, some mining companies are hiring mercenaries for the security operators, what might mean ethnic clearances in some areas. Nobody ever convicted about those actions, but as we know that there must be persons, who have some problems with their moral. And as we know it, very easy to hide those men to work as the hired killers in the western countries.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesian_Bush_War

The film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41-dLH5YqeU

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http://i.imgur.com/asP0gll.jpg

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Thursday, January 25, 2018

Chinese scientists are creating the 10 petawatt laser-system


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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Chinese scientists are creating the 10 petawatts laser system, what might have also the military purposes. Those lasers can create the beam, what takes only one-millionth part of the second, but they are very powerful. So this kind of equipment can destroy any satellite in the orbiter, and the short period of the pulse will make the location of that system very hard to locate.

Ultrapowerful lasers have one thing, what makes them so devastating, that nobody could ever think about that. Those lasers can whip the molecules away from its route, and make the tube kind of empty hole in the atmosphere, and the ion cannons can use this tunnel to send the ions thru this tunnel to the target. And this makes possible to make the most devastating weapon, what the mankind has ever created.


The antimatter ions can shoot thru this empty tunnel to the target, and this will make possible to make the annihilation cannon. The problem with the ion cannon has been that the particles what are shooting thru it will disperse because the electric charge makes those particles repel together. The solution for that problem is that ion cannon has two accelerators what is one inside other, and that makes possible to shoot the particles with opposite electric charge in the same direction, what helps to keep the shower of ions together.


Another problem with those ion cannons is that those particles will hit the air molecules, and that is the reason, why use of this weapon is predicted be only outside of the atmosphere because if that thing shoots in the Earth atmosphere, would they will impact the atoms, and that's why the range of that weapon could be the only couple of meters. Ion cannons are predicted to use as powerful "stun lights" in hostage rescue situations because when those particles will hit another atom, would be the result of those impacts seen as the powerful light.



But if the laser could open the empty tunnel thru the gas, could that make the annihilation cannon possible. The annihilation cannon is actually an ion cannon, what shoots the antimatter ions to the target. The production of antimatter is not difficult in theory. The particle accelerators can produce that "mirror material" very easily, but the costs of the production are very high.


And the energy of the antimatter is extremely high, and only a gram of that thing can destroy the entire planet. The antimatter has same physical shape than the normal material, and when those things will touch together, they will transfer to energy. Antimatter can be ionized same way as the normal material, and the ion cannon can shoot it to the target. If that tunnel is not created, the antimatter will explode near the ion cannon, and destroy also the vehicle, what uses it.


But if there would be opened the "tunnel" thru the air, that weapon can revolutionize the warfare. Antimatter could be useful to use for destroying the nano bugs and every other target, but the problem could be the devastating force of that thing. So the use of this thing could be compiled as the use of the nuclear weapons. And the results of using this thing would be more horrifying than the use of the nuclear weapons.

Sources

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Sunday, January 21, 2018

Reselling the weapons is the problem in the international weapons trade

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Legal weapons trade is very controlled thing, and selling weapons to the countries, what are in the war, is strictly prohibited by the international law. The problem of the selling weapons is not actually, that manufacturers of the weapons are breaking those rules. Many weapons will be sold to the legal customers like Saudi-Arabia, and that country is not in the war, but then we must realize, that some of those weapons might be resold to some other country, what is in the war.


Here I must say, that Saudi-Arabia officially follows the international law, but there is a phrase in those countries, what goes that "what the man speaks is not mean that man even knows what the other men do".  So there might be little difference between the truth and speech. The problem is that is those illegal weapons trade would uncover, there will be found some corrupted officials, who get the punishments. In those cases, there would be no evidence, that the government would systematically break the international law. But as I mentioned, the weapon reselling is the big problem.


This system would go like this, first, the western nation will sell the weapons to some legal customer, what will resell some of those weapons to some other country, what will resell them to some other nation, and this is the very big problem. When there is the concatenated sell process in the front of the user, those weapons are very difficult to trace, because that stuff might be marked as the metal trash, what goes to the steel factories. When those containers would open, there would be weapons and other military stuff.


And of course, those customers of those productions would remove the marks of the tanks and armored personnel carriers (APC:s), what would make difficult to recognize that military equipment as the Piranha or AMV (Armoured Modular Vehicle) APC:s. This means that the type shields of that vehicle will be removed, and the shape of those vehicles will try to change by installing the canvas and equipment baskets on the roof of those vehicles. The purpose of this action is to make the vehicle more difficult to recognize if they are visible on the TV or Internet.

Source

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http://www.army-technology.com/features/featurethe-worlds-best-armoured-personnel-carriers-4142101/

Friday, January 12, 2018

Jetpacks can be the great opportunity, but they can be very big danger for the common security



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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The jetpack flights are now quite common, but do you know that those equipment has planned also the civil- and military use. In the civil duties, that equipment can get the rescue operators in the forests, and if those flying machines would be remote controlled, they can get the personnel out of the burning houses, and help the situation in the accident area, by bringing the medicines and the medical staff in the areas, what are too risky for the helicopters. Or this is what some futurologists see the use of this equipment.


Major problems with motorized hand gliders are that those equipment are suitable for terror-attack. The motorized hand gliders can use as to make the air-strike against any target, and those operators can be extremely dangerous because they can equip with the hand grenades, grenade launchers, and assault rifles, and even the heavily protected targets can be treated by those things. The special forces are also very interested to use jetpacks in their operations.


One of the realistic use for the jetpacks is to use them with the DARPA:s new human-like "Atlas"-robot, what could be sent to the combat zone with the jetpacks. The robots might deliver from C-130 Hercules or any other cargo plane to the operational area, and those combat robots, what have used this thing, might have the limited air-combat capacity. In some most imaginal visions, those robots can shoot to the operational area by ballistic missile, what returning capsule is that robot.


The vision is like straight from some "Terminator"-movie, where the combat robot will be sent for the assassination mission by the intercontinental ballistic missile. Those jet gliders can be used to drop the operators far away from the target, and they can fly to the target area. The jetpacks are actually quite difficult to see because they are very small sized. And the modern electronics allow making the autopilot-controlled jetpack, what leaves the operator in the right place, and then this thing will fly away.

Also, these little aircraft are probably planned to use as the carriers of small guided bombs. In this scenario, the jetpack is equipped with the GBU:s or "Stinger" missiles, and the remote-controlled glider can also use the miniaturized combat aircraft. Those things can also support the special forces combatants in their missions by delivering the combat equipment to those combatants, who operate far away from enemy lines.

Sources:

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https://naomimercer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/jet-pack-man-Dubai1.png

Saturday, January 6, 2018

The science and technology in the wrong hands is extremely dangerous weapon



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Kimmo Huosionmaa


The series X-files will be started soon in the television, and I must say that this particular TV-series will bring the people's mind one thing. The thing is that science in the most dangerous weapon in the world. If some person, who has the right resources wants to make murder,  this person can take the example the victims own cells and then give them radioactive radiation, that will turn them as the cancer cells. After that, this person might inject those cells into the victim's body. Another way is to take the snake's poison and give it as the injection to the victim.



I read from one novel a story of the clever murderer, who gave the victim the trip to India as a gift. In India, this brutal murderer took the Efa-snakes poison to the injection nail and then gave the lethal injection to the victim. Even if this story was fiction, I must say that it brought the questions in my mind, and one of them was, is someone done this somewhere? People mind is the horrible place if some person wants to be really bad for another people. The man is the most intelligent species on the Earth.



And that makes human so dangerous. If the criminal is clever, nobody will able to stop this person. The modern computer technology has brought new kind of threats in the people mind. One of the most dangerous things is computer viruses, what can be used to take some cars under the control. In some scenarios, the assassin will put the computer virus to the car's central computer, and then this person will cause the accident by locking the one wheel in the middle of the road.  Or the hackers can take a control of some killer drones, and use them against something, what was not mentioned as the target. This can be done in some military exercises. 



The miniature helicopters will cause many threats to people. One of those threats is that criminals can use them to search the weapons and other interesting stuff from people's departments. And of course, the narcotics dealers can use them to search police near their site. Another way the drones can be used as the patrolling some areas like warehouses, where is the danger that someone steals the stuff from the buildings.



But those little helicopters can be used as the weapons. In the little X-helicopter can be equipped the remotely controlled winch, what will pull the UZI- or MAC-10 sub-machine gun's trigger back, when the operator pushes button. That kind of equipment is very lethal in the wrong hands. Big size UAV:s are also the very big threat if they will go into wrong hands. Those toys can be filled with the explosives and used as the missile. And those RPV:s can also fly in the passenger-planes motor, where they will cause the bad situation.



USAF has tested independently working for drone swarms in the Dugway test area, and those intelligent weapon systems are very capable to operate against any target in the world. Those drones can search the armed personnel and tanks, and they can be equipped with HEAT or anti personnel-ammunition. They are more lethal than any smart bomb in the world ever can be. They can deliver from the cluster bombs, and if we are honest, nothing is safe from that equipment. They can slip into the buildings and take the snipers or equipment out.



Or they can deliver information of enemy troops from very large areas, and they can sit on the service vehicles roof, what will go to the airbase. Then the operators can fly those drones to the fighter's service hangar, and drop the weapons in the cockpits of those planes. Even the small size of explosive can make bad damages if they explode in the ammunition or fuel dump.



And the modern bug like intelligence equipment can also use as the sabotage missions. Those little bugs can equip with the small explosives, and then they can fly on the micro chip-circuits, and then they can damage the microcircuits very badly.If only one of the wires on the micro-circuit board will cut, it will make the computer useless. Or those mosquito-looking drones can inject the targets ricin or some other poison or if the operator wants to be very unseen, this controller might use the malaria amoebas to exterminate the person. Malaria is very dangerous illness, and it can be used as the Stealth-elimination operations. That equipment can be the clear and present danger to the national security.  

Sources 

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New autonomous task units are entering service.

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