Sunday, August 28, 2011

Theoretical space weaponry


Even if space weapons so far are reserved for the most part by dumping payload space and sending rockets into orbit for satellites. But lets face it that is not as fresh as it should be. When you think of space think laser and boarding actions between Giant spaceships and to put it simply, which is as it should be, and fortunately there war a lot of scientists out there who disagree with us. So far very little of this technology is far from theoretical, but that doesn't make it any less cool.

First lets talk about some more realistic space war and the history of space war. Space war originally was going to be nothing more than an extension of the nuclear war. Basically we were going to nuke from space that would make it more difficult to detect and intercept. However, in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty was made and signed by the majority of the world. It was one of the things that was banned by the Treaty, Outer Space storing tests or using nuclear weapons in space. During the cold war has meant a lot of technology and a lot of it has been tested. A lot of technology including rail guns and lasers that were mostly even if up to shoot down incoming missiles.

Today the most cutting edge technology that is currently being tested and developed small satellites is called Micro-sats as a Micro-satellite is the size of a refrigerator and Pico-sats. Pico-satellite is also smaller, being only a little bigger then one cubic foot. These mini-satellites are designed to manipulate and interact with other orbiting machines to repair the sabotage to hijack or sometimes just collide with.

A theoretical space war is kinetic bombardment. This form of arms takes the most advanced technology available to humanity and bends to one of the most rough and primitive styles of ancient warfare used in medieval times. Basically the kinetic bombardment is where you take a rock and dropped from orbit sounds simple? It is good there is much more then that except for how we can make the stone survive re-entry. So if the rock survives the return could be extremely effective. Basically, it would become a meteorite.

Then of course there are directed-energy weapons. Most likely when you think of futuristic weapons you are thinking of this. This category includes weapons which use laser and plasma radiation. Basic energy weapons are more effective in a vacuum environment. Only now we are starting to use laser technology in the war, but the most developed in the field of basic energy weapons is a particle beam. This is where you take the bunch of neutral particles and fire them into a stream against an enemy or destination incredibly high speeds.







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