The Army Is Testing Handheld Ray Guns
Apr 6, 2016 14:52:40 GMT -6
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Post by Rickster on Apr 6, 2016 14:52:40 GMT -6
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Colt M4 with ACOG sight and forward
The image posted above this one shows a handgun so I thought it appropriate to show a real M4 although it doesn't come with a ACOG sight or the forward grip extension when issued to the soldier. The ACOG sight cost more than the rifle.
So basically what we are talking about is a EMP rifle that looks like a regular duty rifle. So many times movies preview weapons, future events, and space technology long before it ever happens. It is getting to be a very strange coincidence. Look to Arnold Schwarzenegger and the movie Eraser for a previous mention of a EMP rifle, this one was done in 1996. To me that's a hell of a heads up for the movie industry.
"Pew! Pew! Soldiers with handheld energy blasters are the stuff of G.I. Joe, not real life … until now. The U.S Army is currently testing electricity guns for possible use against electronics on the battlefield. They don’t look like props from the popular cartoon show but, rather like regular standard-issue M4 rifles with a pair of antennas that shoot out from the barrel and then spread, giving the front end of the gun a musket-like shape."
The image posted above this one shows a handgun so I thought it appropriate to show a real M4 although it doesn't come with a ACOG sight or the forward grip extension when issued to the soldier. The ACOG sight cost more than the rifle.
"Soldiers “already carry rifles. Why not use something that every soldier already carries,” said James E. Burke, an electronics engineer with the U.S. Army’s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, or ARDEC. Burke spoke with Defense One at a National Defense Industry Association event in Baltimore on Tuesday.
Burke’s apparatus, which he’s named the “Burke Pulser,” consists of two wide antennas, a piezoelectric generator and a few other small bits and pieces. It has a blast shield to protect the user from electricity levels that the inventor describes as “hazardous.”
The Pulser takes the explosive energy released when the gun fires and converts it into pulses of electrical energy. This is done via the piezoelectric effect, which derives an electric charge when pressure is exerted on crystalline materials such as quartz, changing the balance of positive and negative ions.
The Pulser isn’t the first electricity gun ever invented. One of the more interesting prototypes that have emerged over the last several years came from, Seattle-based hacker Rob Flickenger, who cast a Nerf gun in aluminum and rigged it to shoot 20,000 volts of electricity a short distance.
Burke’s apparatus, which he’s named the “Burke Pulser,” consists of two wide antennas, a piezoelectric generator and a few other small bits and pieces. It has a blast shield to protect the user from electricity levels that the inventor describes as “hazardous.”
The Pulser takes the explosive energy released when the gun fires and converts it into pulses of electrical energy. This is done via the piezoelectric effect, which derives an electric charge when pressure is exerted on crystalline materials such as quartz, changing the balance of positive and negative ions.
The Pulser isn’t the first electricity gun ever invented. One of the more interesting prototypes that have emerged over the last several years came from, Seattle-based hacker Rob Flickenger, who cast a Nerf gun in aluminum and rigged it to shoot 20,000 volts of electricity a short distance.
So basically what we are talking about is a EMP rifle that looks like a regular duty rifle. So many times movies preview weapons, future events, and space technology long before it ever happens. It is getting to be a very strange coincidence. Look to Arnold Schwarzenegger and the movie Eraser for a previous mention of a EMP rifle, this one was done in 1996. To me that's a hell of a heads up for the movie industry.
