When many people hear the name DARPA which stands for the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, most think of secret military development work, the sort of place it would come up with a Terminator-style robot and the Skynet control system that would allow it to try and take over the …
The Device that Won WW2 – The Cavity Magnetron
It was called “the most valuable cargo ever brought to the US shores” and in many ways brought about many technological aspects of the world we live in today and yet this device had a chequered beginning and appears to have been independently invented several times in different countries. A …
If Oppenheimer Didn’t Invent the Atomic Bomb, Who Did?
Did Oppenheimer invent the atomic bomb?. I was listening to the radio the other day to an interview with Cillian Murphy, the actor who plays Robert Oppenheimer in the new film of the same name and the interviewer started by saying, “what’s it like to play the man who invented …
Can the U.S. Stop Russian and Chinese Hypersonic Missiles?
Hypersonic weapons have been under development for decades and have taken on an almost mythical quality because their main selling points of speed and manoeuvrability make them seem unstoppable. Recently, Russian president Vladimir Putin has been the man putting the hype into hypersonic, claiming that Russia has perfected the Avangard …
Can Iran Stop U.S. Bunker Buster Bombs?
Ever since we learned to fight we have striven to protect our most important places but with modern weapons is there a safe place anymore? The most secure places we could build, hardened secure and even nuclear bunkers are now vulnerable to bunker-busting weapons that can go clean through 20 …
The Wild Weasels – When Electronic Warfare Became Real
They had probably the most dangerous missions in the USAF and were the first into an air attack and the last out and had a greater number of losses during the early part of the Vietnam war for their squadron size than any others. But they developed a technique to …
Proximity Fuze – The 3rd Most Crucial Development of WW2
In the realms of top-secret projects of world war 2 there are a couple which most people will have heard of, the development of the Atomic bomb and Radar but there was another that was ranked as equally secret and important and its effect on the war could be said …
Will Directed Energy Weapons be the Future?
They have been seen in science fiction for a hundred years and go by many names, heat rays, death rays, lasers, masers, phasers, disrupters and e-bombs, but they are all effectively directed energy weapons and in theory they could be the ideal weapon that works at near the speed of …
Hypersonic Missiles vs ICBM’s – Which is better?
Over the last 60 years or so, intercontinental Ballistic missiles or ICBM’s have become the ultimate deterrent in the defence arsenals of the US, UK, Russia, China, France and other countries. This produced the doctrine of M.A.D or Mutually Assured Destruction where if there was a nuclear conflict, no one …
Nuking the moon – The Secret USAF Project A119
Probably one of the most inspirational moments in human history was the landing on the moon by Apollo 11 and Niel Armstrong’s first steps on the surface but maybe if project A119 had gone ahead almost 10 years earlier, things might not have looked quite so rosy knowing that the …
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