Military Technology

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Military Technology

• How We Protect Our Soldiers And Defeat Our
  Enemies
• By James Mahoney

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M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank

• Weight 69.54 tons
• Armament 120mm Rheinmetall M256 smoothbore
  cannon, 12.7mm (.50 caliber) Browning M2 machine
  gun, 7.62mm M240 machine gun, 7.62mm M240 machine
  gun mounted coaxially
• Armor Burlington, or Chobham, composite armor
  (exact specifications are still classified)
• Maximum Speed 42 mph

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Abrams tanks on exercise in the field. (1)
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Abrams Main Battle Tanks

• Abrams main battle tanks (MBTs) are the main
  armored vehicle deployed by the U.S. military.
  It has an effective range of almost three (3)
  miles and can accurately shoot while moving at
  its top speed, thanks to a very advanced
  stabilization system.
• Its heavy armor, made of the still-classified
  composite armor called Burlington or Chobham,
  gives it an impressive survivability rate for its
  crew.

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Tomahawk Cruise Missile (BGM-109)

• The Tomahawk is a long-range cruise missile
  designed for both surface and submarine launch
  against surface ship and land targets.
• Weight 2,650 lbs. with a 1,000 lb. Warhead
• Range between 288 and 1,555 miles
• Cruising Altitude 50-100 feet

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The first Tomahawk missile fired at Iraq was
launched from the USS Bunker Hill.
(Photographer's Mate 2nd Class (AW) Richard
Moore/AP Photo) (2)
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A Tomahawk cruise missile is launched from the
battleship USS Wisconsin. (3)
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Optic Camouflage

• Optic camouflage is in its infancy, as the
  picture to the right indicates.
• Optic camouflage bends light around the wearer to
  give the appearance that the wearer is not there.

(4)
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Optic Camouflage would enable soldiersparticularl
y special forcesto sneak in and out of
enemy-held territory more efficiently. The
picture below, a screenshot from the anime movie
Ghost In The Shell, indicates how effective this
technology may be in the future.
(5)
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References

• The Website For Defense Industries. 31 March
  2003. http//www.army-technology.com/projects/abr
  ams/index.html (Back)
• ABC News. 22 March 2003. American Broadcasting
  Corporation. 31 March 2003. http//abcnews.go.com
  /sections/wnt/World/iraq_GPS_030322.html (Back)
• Iowa Class Missile Battery. 29 June 2000. Iowa
  Class Preservation Society. 31 March 2003
  http//www.battleship.org/html/Articles/IowaClass/
  Missile.htm
• Japanese Scientist Invents Invisibility Cloak.
  5 February 2003. Ananova.com. 31 March 2003
  http//www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_747591.html?m
  enu (Back)
• Anime Pictures. Anime Stuff. 31 March 2003.
  http//www.geocities.com/s_e_lain/webpics/Kusanagi
  _fall.jpg (Back)