In the beginning of the war: modern, sophisticated, technologically advanced weapons.<br>
At the end of the war: clubs, maces, bows and arrows.. <p></p><i></i>
I would also imagine that in a serious global war in this era, you would likely see a lot of "classified" weapons being used by the US...I'd love to see what they have hidden away from our prying eyes.<br>
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I think the war would still be conventional, and a country would likely only use weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, biological or chemical) as a last ditch resort perhaps. Unless you have some yahoo like Hussein in power, then who knows? <p>Tiberius Lantanius Magnus<BR>
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Or Dubya <p><i>Unless the Persians fly away like birds, hide in the earth like mice, or leap into a lake like frogs, they will never see their homes again, but will die under our arrows</i></p><i></i>
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Assuming the conflict remains conventional, one of the weapons that will be employed is an EMP bomb. This device duplicates the EMP effect of a nuclear detonation (but on a smaller scale) without actually using a nuclear blast.<br>
Other conventional weapons used will improved versions of the J-SOW (Joint Stand-off Weapon) and J-DAM (Joint Direct-Attack Munition). Armed RPVs (like the Predator UAV used in Afghanistan) will be extensively employed.<br>
Unless the enemy is astoundingly stupid (as in Iraq), there will be no opportunity to build up masses of armor, artillery and infantry.<br>
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I wouldn't like to spoil the fun, but I kinda suspect WWIII has already started. Weapons used were cutters and a few civilian jets..<br>
It isn't a full scale war. Yet.<br>
As usual no one knows into what kind of monstruous thing it's going to mutate. <p></p><i></i>
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Yep, Casca, I'm afraid so..<br>
And you don't even need all this sophisiticated hardware, actually.<br>
In Rwanda, some one million people were slaughtered during intertribal warfare.<br>
It took only four weeks. They only had machetes and assault rifles.<br>
It took the nazis five years to murder six million people. With an operational plan, special trains, gas chambers and the like.<br>
That put things into perspective doesn't it? <p></p><i></i>
They made the Rwandans sit down and watch episodes of Friends... <p><BR><p align=center><font color=gold><font size=2>
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Adam,<br>
EMP means electro-magnetic pulse. Nuclear explosion will produce such a pulse which basically shorts electronic systems. The modern military computers are armoured against EMP.<br>
And about Rwanda, on the contrary, I stressed that with only primitive machetes and basic assault rifle they managed to kill people far more quickly than the nazis did with all their technology of assassination.<br>
Precisely, they did not need NBC weapons in Rwanda...<br>
I don't really know what it mean. It just scares me.<br>
And Friends is a nice show actually. What it lacks is an H bomb every once in a while.. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showLocalUserPublicProfile?login=antoninuslucretius>Antoninus Lucretius</A> at: 5/5/02 3:59:23 pm<br></i>
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Essentially, an EMP bomb is a one-shot generator that produces an omindirectional electrical pulse identical in all respects to the one produced ay a nuclear detonation. The energy needed to produce the pulse is provided by a large charge of conventional high explosive.<br>
Another weapon that might see use is the neutron bomb. This deivce is a small thermonuclear bomb without the U-238 casing. The intense neutron radiation which would otherwise cause the U-238 to fission escapes and fries anything within a certain distance. N-weapons are known as "landlord bombs"; as in they evict the tenants (with extreme prejudice) and leave the domus standing.<br>
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What mutation Adam?<br>
Well, the last big one started with a austrian madman sitting in a bavarian gasthaus and talking nonsense with a bunch of gorilla types stoned on beer 24 hours a day. It ended in Hiroshima. That's some mutation.<br>
So, If this is WW numero three, it started with cutters and civilian airplanes...<br>
...And I really don't know where it will lead. And I am not sure I want to know, but I am sure I will.<br>
I am also sure of another thing, BTW: whichever way it mutates, the West will win. <p></p><i></i>
<b><i>Quote:</i></b><hr> And Friends is a nice show actually. What it lacks is an H bomb every once in a while..<hr><br>
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It's still the most horrifying of <b> NBC</b> weapons. <p><BR><p align=center><font color=gold><font size=2>
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