Six high-tech weapons, such as rail guns and sound weapons, that only existed in fiction for a while ago

Sometimes the senses are paralyzed because weapons such as fully autonomous unmanned fighter jets and portable laser guns that have only appeared in science fiction novels a while ago are being put to practical use. Eh? This is such a great thing? ' I tried to collect such high-tech weapons in various ways.

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6 Weapon Technologies That Were Once Considered SciFi [[furiousfanboys.com

■ Part 1: Taser gun

In 1974, NASA's engineer Jack Cover developed a Taesar gun that shoots an electrode with a wire and paralyzes it with a high-voltage current. By the way, 'Taser (TASER)' word that is the fantasy adventure novel series liked Jack hero, Tom Swift the first letter of put the name of the 'electric rifle of Tom Swift' (Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle) It was taken.

■ Part 2: Railgun

A railgun that can accelerate metal bullets with high-voltage current and electromagnetic induction force using magnets and strike at ultra-high speed has the impression that it is often used in near-future science fiction movies that want to avoid images of the future of laser guns There is. In the US Navy, experiments are being repeated for practical use.

■ Part 3: Acoustic weapons

Speaking of acoustic weapons, it seems that there are many people who will remember Dorian 's secret tool ' Amazon Sonic Oscillator ' and some meaning Gyan which can not be called 'Human Acoustic Weapon', but as a non-killing weapon Actually, it is widely used in Japan, and the whaling research vessel of the Ministry of Fisheries has succeeded in using this to move the sea shepherd protest ship away.

■ Part 4: Caseless gun

Caseless guns that do not require a cartridge, such as the pulse rifles that the Marine Corps had in the movie 'Alien 2', equipped with a powered suit with old 'Hairin's Space Warrior', 'shoot and metal' It was a useful tool to give the work a near futuristic atmosphere, with the common sense of the gun being 'the drug cartridge being discharged'. As a matter of fact, there are various problems and it can not be said that mobile weapons have become common . It is also used in the machine gun ' Metal Storm ' that can fire one million shots continuously in one minute to increase the firing speed on the mechanism. In addition, the thing close to the caseless that the case is made of the material which burns out with the shell for tanks is put to practical use.

■ Part 5: Whole body scanner

There is a popular manga expression that the bones of the body can be seen through the electric shock ... but it is quite recent that it has become possible to scan the whole body like that. I think that many technical aspects of whole body scanning are taken up in the work of the science fiction, but in the real world, it seems that social aspects such as privacy issues are often discussed .

■ The sixth: Air car

The ideal air car has not yet come out, so that it runs like an anti-gravitational energy such as an unknown force and floats and slides without sound, but the hovercraft that floats and runs with high pressure air is quite It is close to an air car.