The most powerful weapon - the arms race continues

Paraphrasing an American architect,we can say that the war will always be in vogue. Or wars will disappear, or - people. Therefore, as development progresses, states, companies and individuals seek to create the most powerful weapons in a particular category, using new technologies. For example, such an ancient weapon as a crossbow today is a mechanism capable of killing an elephant (the American model of Stryker), because The arrow, fired from it, flies with an initial velocity of 123 meters per second and has a kinetic energy of 210 joules (for an elephant, 125 joules are enough).

The most powerful weapon in the category of pistolsis represented by several models. The first of these is the "Thunder 50 bmg", firing a cartridge of 99x12.7 mm. The second is Pfeiffer Tselinski, which weighs 6 kg, has a trunk of 20 (40.6 cm). The gun drum holds 5 cartridges weighing 33 grams and costing $ 40 each (the gun costs more than $ 17,000). The weapon shoots at a speed of 2.1 thousand kmh and has a blast energy of more than 4.3 thousand joules. The return is more than 40 J, which indicates that this "toy" is not only for the rich, but also for very strong people. The above models are produced serially. But the most powerful pistol in the world at the moment is made in Poland in one copy. The creation of Richard Tobis has a caliber of a bullet 28 mm and weighs 45 kilograms.

The most powerful weapon in the tank troops for thisthe moment is represented by the domestic tank T-90. This giant weighs more than 46 tons, is equipped with a 125-millimeter gun with an ammunition for 43 rounds, a coupled machine gun (ammunition for two thousand cartridges), an anti-aircraft gun. A distinctive feature of Russian military products is that the tank fires 2-2.5 times farther than its foreign counterparts, which allows it to hit targets without getting hit by tank fire.

However, tanks are far from missiles. In this group, Russia again has the most powerful weapon. This is the ballistic Satan complex of the ground-air class. It is a 34-meter long rocket with a diameter of about 3 meters and weighing 211 tons. The range is 16 thousand kilometers, and the nuclear charge capacity is from 8 to 20 megatons. Equipment for start-up can be ready for action in 1 minute.

We can say that Russia is a country wheremore than 50 years ago, the most powerful weapons in the world were tested. It happened on the Lesser Land on the nuclear test site. There was blown up "Kuz'kina mother" - a thermonuclear "Tsar-bomb" with a capacity of 57 megatons (in TNT equivalent). The explosion was so strong that the shock wave went around the globe three times, which fixed special devices.

But on a smaller scale we are inferior to othersStates where excellent examples of civilian weapons are being developed. For example, America leads the production of hunting rifles, including the "Kuakenbush" model, which is the most powerful pneumatic weapon. This gun is produced by a man who himself is a hunter, for rifle bullets of standard caliber (usually .458). When a 32-gram bullet is fired, the charge exit rate is more than 200 meters per second with an energy of about 650 Joules.

It can not be discounted that the United States, whichare the main opposing side of the Russian Federation, have never cut their military budget. In this country high-tech aircraft of the fifth generation, anti-aircraft complexes ("Patriot"), new tanks, anti-missile defense system have been developed. Therefore, it can be argued that the arms race is continuing today.