left. gas masks. right. the V-1.
left. an A-bomb shelter. so proper. so neat. so clean. so useless. right. nuke armed submarine.
after the list are graphics for the latest weapons.
2. sticks
(clubs) and stones and fire
3.
walled
enclosures
4. spear
and shield, atlal, sling
5.
fire
improves hardness of spear points
6. stone
and bone points
7.
highly
refined chipping of stone points greatly increases effectiveness
8. edged
weapons – wood at first
9.
bow
and arrow
10. some people have horses
11. horse lance – an unstoppable
weapon
12. ships for transport of personnel
– oar and wind power
13. brick and stone used for walls
14. metal vastly improves
pointed/edged weapons
15. horse stirrup – vastly improves
maneuverability and stamina
16. vastly improved bow – laminated
bow of huns and much later english long bow
17. “martial arts” in one part of the
world vastly improves empty hand and hand weapon fighting
18. cross bow – slow but powerful,
less skill needed
19. “machines of war” – basically
throwing big things
20. spreading disease – catapulting
corpses into cities
21. mounted full armor – at first
effective against ground troops
22. modifications of sword to pierce
weak points of armor
23. further modification of sword in
preference for speed over heaviness – very effective
24. guns – useless at first –
destroys the “honor” of personal combat
25. artillery – brings an end to
walled cities and forts – “earth chewers”
26. ships with artillery
27. smaller ships prove more
maneuverable – much later
28. engine powered ships
29. repeating guns – greatly
increases destructive power
30. dynamite
31. metal ships
32. trench warfare – extends wars,
nobody wins, lots of trauma
33. tanks – tracked armored canon
platforms – a big change
34. machine guns – at first
pathetically non-functional, become an impassible wall
35. land mines, sea mines – the first
are anti-personnel horrors that remain for civilians
36. radio – improves coordination
37. second age of bio-weapons begins,
gas masks, becomes a major field still
unchecked – a thousand hideous forms of death
38. aircraft
39. bombs
40. missiles
41. radar
42. proximity fuses – derived from
radar – greatly improves anti-aircraft technology
43. improved optics allow practical
longer range rifles
44. grenades – hand thrown explosives
45. bazooka– personal rockets
46. parachute – quick long range
delivery of ground troops
47. “scuba” personal underwater
survival gear - expands demolition
48. jet aircraft
49. hollow point ammunition – causes
massive trauma – mostly illegal for civilians but commonly available
50. canned food greatly increases
endurance in the field
51. napalm (jellied gasoline that
sticks to flesh) and phosphorous – hideous burning anti-personnel weapons
52. submarines
– at first as very effective anti-ship weapon, slowly becomes a major factor (see below)
53. sonar to detect submarines
54. helicopters – much later become
incredible anti-ground gun/missile platforms
55. amphibious craft – greatly
improves transfer of ground troops from ship to shore
56. aircraft carriers – at first a
revolution, to become sitting ducks with the advent of advanced missiles and
aircraft
57. lasers – little use so far, but
great potential
58. anti-plane/missile high
electronics scrambles guidance systems
59. infra-red and night vision
60. earth orbit satellites – slowly
developed greatly for communications, then critical for spying – potential for absolute world domination
61. nuclear warheads
62. inter-continental ballistic
missiles
63. massive accumulation of previous
two allow the destruction of the
entire world
64. nuclear reactors greatly extend
the underwater time of submarines
65. submarines carrying atomic missiles that can be launched
from under water
66. defoliants – to “deprive the
enemy of supplies and cover” – permanent environmental poison
67. neutron bombs – leaves property intact, kills
people
68. anti-missile
shield – a total failure with not even one successful test – costs tens of billions of dollars
69.
cruise
missiles – very low flying “airplane” missiles with topographic radar are
impossible to detect or intercept, don’t have the range of icbm missiles
70. mega-lasers for an anti-missile
“shield” – employ bizarre chemical reactions and explosions, even atomic – a
total failure
71. “flechet” personal weapons –
shoots ragged disks instead of bullets – massive internal injury with flechets
impossible to find
72. tasers – disabling electrical
shock – mostly civilian use
73. “shock” grenades – burst of light
and sound that disorient – mostly civilian use
74. splinter bombs – one missile
delivers thousands of small bombs or land mines
75. smart bombs - sight and computer
guided to great accuracy
76. electromagnetic bombs – disable
modern computers and communications
77. stealth aircraft – a great simple
idea that however requires computers to make aircraft flyable
78. “metal storm” stacked-ammunition
personal firearms – delivers millions of rounds – effective demonstrations and
secret development
79. intense sound generation – nausea
and disorientation
80. long range acoustic device – said
to be non-lethal – my ass
81. long range microwave device –
ditto - ditto
82. long range tasers – electric
currents using a guide of air ionized by a femto-pulse laser – in very
effective first stages
fun facts about the v- 2 and v- 1
statistics
v-2 killed or serious 10, 626 , less
serious 25,134, total 37,760
v-1 24,165 35,845 60,010
total 97,770
cost
the v-2 cost tens of thousands of dollars
the v-1 cost 500 dollars
* the v-2 approached the from edge of space, and the damage done was originally
thought to be from home gas explosions.
* the v-1 came after v-2, and killed more people. it was an early form of cruise missile. it was called the "buzz bomb" because of the sound made by its new "pulsed" engine.
* 10,000 slaves laborers died making the
v-2, approximately the same number as were seriously injured.
