It may very well be that pretty soon a soldier will go to war, among other luggage, with a plastic suitcase weighing no more than five kilograms in his hand. It will have four lifting plastic tubes, each of which will house a 750-gram (the weight of a 1914 Russian offensive grenade) grenade loaded with a CL-20 explosive, which is 20 times more powerful than TNT. That is, 100 grams of warhead in this grenade will be equal to two kilograms of this standard explosive for today. Enclosure made of plastic or recycled paper. The shards are ready-made, from pressed wood or cast basalt - this is already being done, moreover, even basalt fiber is being made. So the level of environmental friendliness of such ammunition will be the highest! In the head part there is a portable video camera, and behind a small jet engine and a cruciform rudder control system, and the transmission of commands is carried out through wires made of magnesium alloy wire and burned out after use. The firing range is in the range from 50 to 1500 meters, that is, it is a kind of analogue of the 50-mm mortar of the last war, but incomparably more powerful.
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The "suitcase" itself is at the same time a base plate, and potassium nitrate is pressed into the plastic from which it is made, so that if you set it on fire with a special red button, it will all burn out without a trace. Guidance is carried out from a control panel with a joystick and is controlled by the display screen. Additional communication with the drone is possible, so it will be very difficult to hide from such ammunition. They can be fired according to the principle - one grenade - one enemy, and in this case neither a helmet nor the most modern bulletproof vest will save him in case of a direct hit. Or - one grenade - several opponents, since the radius of destruction by shrapnel is 25 meters, the action on an area target is quite possible. That is, one soldier, armed with one such "suitcase", will be able to guaranteed to destroy or disable at least four enemy fighters! That's more than enough for a 10-man unit! Moreover, transport drones will be able to quickly replenish their ammunition.
And this despite the fact that the same drones will again be able to provide fire support to their unit, dropping cylindrical mines from a height onto the line of contact, screwed into the ground and containing a television system or … a missile system, or a rifle installation, as well as a device for self-detonation. Naturally, the system of inquiry "friend or foe". It will be extremely difficult to break through a chain of such mines, since their part protruding above the surface of the earth can be well camouflaged. Each mine can again have its own operator or the simplest "brain" connected to motion sensors. Moreover, they can be dropped in the deep rear of the enemy. For example, by the road. True, in Western Europe, lattice fences are installed along the roads, which will prevent a shot from a missile system. However, the shelling of transport on the road in the deep rear from automatic weapons is a very unpleasant thing, since even today even one killed soldier is a serious loss.
Of course, all such and similar combat systems will require considerable expenses. However, it is on this path that developed countries will be able to obtain real military advantages over less developed ones in the fight against international terrorism and for a cleaner environment!
Thus, what other small arms does a soldier need with such a weapon in his hands? Only a pistol or a submachine gun in case of a completely unexpected attack. And what could it be? Well, let's say a pistol or a submachine gun that shoots bullets in the shape of … a ring! Let's imagine for a moment that we cut an ordinary bullet in half, turned the resulting part into a plane, and bent this plane into a ring. Depending on how we bend it, we will end up with a ring with either a tapered outer surface or a smooth one. Well, if it is smooth on the outside, then it will be cone-shaped on the inside. In any case, the edge of such a ring will be blunt on one side, but very sharp on the other! And it will still be a bullet with all its properties.
Let's look at the picture with the diagram of a 10-mm 30-mm pistol that shoots just such bullets. It again has no moving parts other than the "mobile phone" in the grip and the touch trigger. The magazine is both a barrel and a chamber. Inside the barrel of the store there is a threaded guide, on which bullet rings are put one after the other, and the powder charges and initiator chips are located between them in the recesses in the bullets themselves. The outer shell of the bullets is smooth, just like the surface of the magazine barrel.
Since the distance from the muzzle is different for each bullet, all the warheads are also different, "numbered", of different power, which ensures the stability of ballistic characteristics. When fired, the microwave radiation of the control "mobile phone" in the handle initiates the desired chip, which ignites the propellant charge. The bullet slides along the rifling and, spinning, flies out of the barrel. Due to their caliber and sharp edge, such bullets can inflict very serious damage. In addition, they will not give ricochets, since when it comes into contact with an inclined surface with its edge, it will simply turn over and stand perpendicular to it. We must not forget about the purely psychological effect of a weapon of this caliber: it will be enough to look at the hole in the barrel bore for your hands to rise up by themselves! Moreover, it can be either a pistol or a submachine gun with an ammunition capacity of 30 rounds, designed exclusively for self-defense, as well as … police and special forces, for example, bank security.
Even more original is a fundamentally new ammunition for small arms, the bullet of which is in the form of a disk with a sharp cutting edge. It consists of a flat brass sleeve and a steel bullet in the form of a flat or diamond-shaped disc in cross-section, through the middle of which passes a tompak toothed gear, protruding 2 mm on each side of the disc, having a thickness of 5 mm. Thus, the total thickness of the "bullet-disk", that is, the "vertical caliber", will be 9 mm, as in modern pistols and submachine guns.
The barrel for this bullet has a corresponding section of the barrel bore, but its "highlight" is the device of vertical grooves for the passage of gears. On the one hand, the groove is serrated, on the other hand, it is completely smooth. When fired, the gas pressure makes the bullet-disk move forward and, on one side, scroll along the toothed groove, and slide along the opposite smooth wall! Thus, the disk begins to rotate, like an ordinary round bullet, and becomes a flywheel-gyroscope. It is also possible to use smooth protrusions without cutting, which will occur already during the movement of the bullet in the bore. This is where experimentation is needed to find out which is best.
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The peculiarity of the movement of such a "flywheel" is that during sudden braking (the well-known effect of a child's top or whirligig!), It begins to move in a chaotic manner. That is, if it hits an object, such a bullet will "take away" from the trajectory, and it will inflict extremely heavy damage on it. The sharp cutting edge contributes to the destruction of Kevlar protective equipment and also causes cutting injuries to soft tissues. The bullet diameter can be 20 mm for a pistol, and for submachine guns 20, 30 and even 40 mm! The production of such bullets will not meet any difficulties - this is stamping and knurling. And the number of parts - only 2, makes it easier to assemble them on the conveyor. The case is a traditional brass flat case without a rim, which makes it easier to extract and fill small arms magazines with such ammunition. Attention should also be paid to the psychological aspect. Such a weapon is unusual, it is natural that human rumor and the media will immediately spread the most incredible rumors about it, and many years will pass before it becomes familiar to everyone. Until then, people will be frightened of only one flat trunk with a cruciform hole pointed at them! The barrel itself can be made by stamping from two halves that can be opened for cleaning. That is, the very design of the parts of such a weapon is traditional.
