Is disabling weapon one of the development trends of biological weapons in the new era?

After the end of the Cold War, low-intensity conflicts, terrorist incidents and drug trafficking frequently occurred, which brought the world no less anxiety than war. To deal with the above situation, powerful weapons such as airplanes, tanks, cannons, machine guns, etc. are often useless, while non-lethal soft weapons are of great use. Therefore, many countries in the world are actively carrying out research work on non-lethal weapons, making non-lethal weapons (also known as disabling weapons) suddenly emerge. At present, the non-lethal weapons that have been successfully developed and are being developed in the world have different functions, and their disabling mechanisms and targets are also different. The typical ones are: chemical disabling agents, stimulants, hallucination weapons, infrasound weapons, low-energy laser blinding weapons, omni-directional irradiation weapons and so on.

pest bomb

"pest bomb" will infect enemy soldiers with a unique smell-a very attractive sex hormone. When annoying bumblebees or mice smell this smell, they will mistake them for the opposite sex and harass them unbearable. Once the pest bomb is launched into the enemy camp, this chemical weapon can attract thousands of bumblebees and mice in the shortest time, and the enemy position will immediately become "the most unsuitable place for human habitation on earth". In this way, the chaotic enemy can't concentrate on defense at all.

bad breath bomb

American air force scientists have also come up with a "bad breath bomb". Once this chemical agent is sprayed on the enemy, they will immediately produce a "severe and lasting bad breath". Through this method, enemy soldiers can suspect that their comrades-in-arms fart or have bad breath, which will affect their mood; At the same time, it will be more difficult for enemy guerrillas or spies after the "trick" to "commit crimes" among civilians. As long as they speak, they stink, so that the enemy can't dress up and blend in with ordinary people. However, some military scientists pointed out that this kind of bomb does not work at all for many poor countries. Because people in these countries have poor living environment and often smell excrement, it seems that they are not so sensitive to odor, and it is difficult for this bomb to play its expected role.

Blood-sucking zombie bomb

The greatest beauty of "Blood-sucking zombie bomb" is that it can make the skin of the poisoned enemy react to sunlight in a short time, and once this allergic symptom occurs, the patient will have a kind of pain of "life is worse than death" or even "rolling all over the floor". If a "vampire bomb" is fired over enemy positions, an irritating substance will immediately diffuse, poisoning the enemy's skin quickly, and the enemy can't go in and out in the daytime because of fear of light, let alone fight with guns.

carbon fiber bomb

This kind of bomb has been successfully developed by the US military and applied in the Kosovo War and the Iraq War. At the beginning of the war against Iraq, the US military fired multiple carbon fiber bombs at Baghdad. A large number of carbon fiber filaments drifted to power plants and power stations like cobwebs, causing power outages in Baghdad and burning many electrical appliances.

sticky bomb

This kind of chemical bomb is sprayed on the enemy or the target through the launcher, and then it quickly solidifies under the condition of contact with air, forming a very sticky gelatinous substance, which can firmly stick people and make them lose their mobility.

Disabled mines

With the development of international arms control, traditional mines have become more and more difficult to be used in the battlefield, so countries all over the world, especially western developed countries, have stepped up their efforts to develop disabled mines. At present, there are several kinds of disabled mines that have been developed successfully or nearly successfully: XM-93 wide-area mine specially used to attack tank top armor and ERAM long-range anti-armor mine. This kind of mine is an air-dropped mine, which is mainly used to attack the tank top armor, kill the occupants in the car, destroy the facilities in the car and make the tank lose its combat effectiveness.

plasma disabling weapon

after years of efforts, Russia has successfully developed a new concept disabling weapon that can destroy missiles in flight. It is composed of UHF generator, guiding antenna and power supply, which integrates searching for targets, finding targets and attacking targets. Its biggest feature is that the emitted high-energy beam is not focused on the target, but on the front and sides of the target, which can be destroyed instantly when the aircraft passes by. It is said that the weapon can prevent the threat of missiles with nuclear warheads and destroy various flying targets such as aircraft and missiles flying near sonic or supersonic speed. It has the characteristics of non-danger, simple operation and low cost, so the plasma disabling weapon will become a new concept weapon with great development potential.

New concept electronic disability rifle

The so-called new concept disability rifle is a microcomputer-controlled electronic rifle successfully developed by Britain. This rifle does not adopt the shooting method of the previous mechanical rifle, but adopts a brand-new shooting principle. It uses a switch device instead of a trigger, and the strong electric spark generated after the switch is started triggers a chain reaction, which provides power for the bullet launch. The gun shaft of the electronic rifle is thick, and there are several sets of barrels in the gun. Different barrels can fire different bullets. By acting as the switch of the trigger, the firepower can be selected between different bullets. The electronic rifle shoots bullets twice as fast as the mechanical rifle, and it also has a miniature camera system, which can display the observed images of the surrounding environment on a miniature display screen arranged in the user's helmet, so that the operator can shoot beyond the line of sight.

RF disabling weapon

This weapon is a device called "high current electron accelerator", which can excite laser, X-rays, broadband antenna waves and high-power microwaves, stop the engine of the enemy car, destroy the electronic equipment and ignition circuit in the bomb, and also destroy any kind of computer system around it, whether it is computers installed on fighter planes or computers in network centers, banks, power plants and military command centers. Its effective destruction range is about 5 to hundreds of meters, and it is completely silent. It is worth noting that the weapon is light, about 8 kilograms; Small in size, it can be put in a briefcase. It is reported that this weapon has not yet been put into use, but several countries have made plans to develop it.

disabled foam plastic

It is a kind of foam made of polyurethane material. When it is sprayed on the minefield, it can become hard plastic, and it can open the way for troops in the minefield without demining. It has a wide range of applications, and can be sprayed not only on land, but also on the beach, and has a good preventive effect on many kinds of mines; The molding speed is fast. As long as the foam is sprayed on the ground or beach in a minefield, it can become hard plastic in a few minutes, laying a "safe passage" for tanks, vehicles and personnel. Polyurethane is a kind of cheap material, and the appearance of this kind of foamed plastic has important military significance, economic value and political influence.

smart disabled bullet

"smart disabled bullet" is an adaptive bullet fired by barrel, and its firing is controlled by voltage ceramic brake and guidance device. Compared with ordinary bullets, it has incomparable advantages such as high hit accuracy and long effective range. On the one hand, the long range can make the shooter shoot outside the range of enemy infantry firepower and even tank artillery, and can kill the enemy without the enemy knowing it; On the other hand, the flying speed of the "smart disabled bullet" is several times the speed of sound, and the time from launching to hitting the target is extremely short. Before the enemy makes an effective response, the shooter has calmly completed the shooting task.

super corrosive agents

At present, there are two main types. One is a corrosive agent hundreds of times stronger than hydrofluoric acid, which can destroy enemy railways, planes, tanks and other heavy equipment or optical instruments; The other kind is a substance that corrodes and melts tires, which can quickly scrap the tires of cars and planes.

electromagnetic pulse bomb

It is a large-area pulse weapon that explodes outside the atmosphere, mainly causing the electronic equipment of the other side to be destroyed in an instant and completely out of order. (autumn wind blog will have more detailed learning materials posted. )

Microwave weapon

It is a directed energy weapon. Mainly uses the strong microwave generator and the high-gain directional antenna to emit the microwave beam, burns down the enemy's communication, reconnaissance, navigation and other photoelectric facilities.