Unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, or have been successful in completely ignoring the news, you probably know that the US has started to become confrontationally active recently. President Trump threw a quick jab at Syria after they massacred their citizens with gas exposure and gave ISIS a little hat tip last week with a MOAB as well.
Since we’ve decided to actually back up our words with actions, the Army is exploring some new ways to get a message across to our enemies. Their newest advancement in military tech is going to strike some fear into the hearts of anyone who might be on the receiving end of it.
Via Defense One:
“The Kinetic Energy Projectile would be a tungsten warhead that moves at three times the speed of sound, destroying anything in its path
“Think of it as a big shotgun shell,” Maj. Gen. William Hix, the Army’s director of strategy, plans & policy, said a few weeks ago at the Booz Allen Hamilton Direct Energy Summit. But unlike a shotgun shell, Hix said, the KEP moves at incredible speeds of “Mach 3 to Mach 6.”
Randy Simpson, a weapons programs manager at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, explains that kinetic energy projectiles are warheads that ‘take advantage of high terminal speeds to deliver much more energy onto a target than the chemical explosives they carry would deliver alone.’
Said Hix: ‘The way that they [Lawrence Livermore] have designed it is quite devastating. I would not want to be around it. Not much can survive it. If you are in a main battle tank, if you’re a crew member, you might survive but the vehicle will be non-mission capable, and everything below that will level of protection will be dead. That’s what I am talking about.’
America may not want to go to war with anyone, but I wouldn’t say that we’ve ruled it out completely, and when we do, we do not plan on losing.
(H/T: World Net Daily)