标题: Handicapping Future Weapons [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 5-28-2012 12:13 标题: Handicapping Future Weapons (1) What New Technologies Will Change Naval Warfare in the 21st Century. Strategy Page, May 16, 2012 http://strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/articles/20120516.aspx
("All-Electric ships. Coal powered ships appeared in the 19th century, oil powered ones came early in the 20th, along with nuclear power later. But the big revolution now is maximizing the amount of electrical power a ship can generate. That means an all-electric ship (where the engines produce just electricity and all ship equipment is electric powered)")
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(a) smokeless powder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokeless_powder
(i) Poudre B http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poudre_B
(Poudre Blanche: "white powder"; the first practical smokeless gunpowder; perfected between 1882 and 1884 in Paris by Frenchman Paul Vieille; hastily adopted by the French military in 1886, followed by all the major military powers within a few years; section 3 Stability and safety)
(ii) California Powder Works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Powder_Works
(Originally located near Santa Cruz, California; began manufacturing gunpowder in 1864; Peyton Powder was selected by the United States Army in 1893)
(b) The article said, "The modern machine-gun had been invented in 1883."
Priot to that, a machine gun was powered by hand.
(A) Firing 1874 Gatling Gun. YouTube.com, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mad0mZFUXm4
("This is a demonstration firing of a 1874 Gatling Gun. It is a .45 caliber 'Camel Gun' with the shorter 14 in barrels. Seen at Fort Sisseton, SD . This beautiful shiny brass weapon weighed in at 300lbs with its tripod")
(B) Gatlin gun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatling_gun
(known for its use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat; designed by the American inventor Dr Richard J Gatling [living at Indianapolis, Indiana at the time] in 1861 and patented in 1862
(c) telegraphy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy
(section 1 History)
(d) The article stated cavalry in 1892 was "less useful for charging infantry (a trend that began when infantry got muskets with bayonets two centuries earlier)."
Quote: "The arquebus and caliver were phased out in the 17th century as the musket became lighter and more portable, and "musket" thereafter became the generic name for long-barrelled, handheld firearms. The musket went through further evolution in the 17th century, the most important of these changes being the introduction of the flintlock firing mechanism, where the gunpowder in a musket's pan was ignited by a flint suspended on hammer, which struck the pan on pulling the trigger. Sven Åderman is credited with advancing the rapidity of firing and was awarded Halltorps estate by the King of Sweden. The flintlock (which succeeded the similar but more complicated snaphance) was a major advance on the matchlock in safety, accuracy, and loading time. It became standard issue for European infantrymen by 1700. Around the same time came the invention of the bayonet. There was now no need for two types of infantry and the pike disappeared.
(e) The review then said, "Artillery was much more accurate, and capable (due to hydraulic recoil systems)."
(f) radio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio
(section 1 Etymology; In 1893, in St Louis, Missouri, Nikola Tesla addressed the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia)
(g) assault rifle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifles
(The Ribeyrolle 1918 may be the first weapon fitting the definition of an assault rifle)
(h) For portable anti-tank rocket launcher, see bazooka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka
(In service 1942-1957; vague resemblance to the musical instrument called a "bazooka" invented and popularized by 1930s by U.S. comedian Bob Burns; section 1.3 Rocket-borne shaped charge weapons development)
(i) For self-guided torpedo, see torpedo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo#Homing
(section 1 Etymology; section 5 Guidance: Later in the Second World War torpedoes were given acoustic (homing) guidance systems, originally by the Germans in the G7es torpedo)