INSANELY Futuristic Military Weapons And Tech

for as long as we've existed humans have been hell-bent on destroying one another with weapons ranging from clubs to cannons in more recent times however militaries across the globe have developed much more destructive Firearms to Trump their foes from tank toppling Terrors to 20 000 mile an hour projectiles here are the most unbelievable missiles and artillery systems deployed by the most powerful militaries in the world oh before we start I want to shout out today's video sponsor conflict of N

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free available for 30 days from this video's upload now that we're battle ready let's take a look at some awesome artillery FGM 148 javelin at almost four feet long and weighing a hefty 49 pounds the FGM 148 Javelin is certainly one Hefty firearm now you're probably wondering why any handheld weapon needs to be that chunky well the javelin isn't any old handheld Weapon It's a portable anti-tank missile this bad boy designed for the US Army by rathon and Lockheed Martin first came into service i

n 1996. the javelin uses infrared guidance to fix on targets by tracking their heat signatures as a result it's known as a fire and forget missile system meaning that operators can shoot their shot and then move for cover all while the missile is fixed on the target foreign projectile the javelin needs to work fast when it's in the field and considering the launcher can fire a javelin missile over 1.5 miles at speeds over 300 miles per hour it certainly does that if that wasn't enough the javeli

n can use a top attack flight profile when attempting to take down tanks this sends the missile up to Heights of 490 feet before crashing down on the tank from above where the armor is weakest tank armor at its thickest can exceed 13 inches but while its blast yield is considered classified information it's estimated that the javelin's 19 pound Warhead has a blast yield penetration of 30 inches on rolled homogeneous armor but you didn't hear that from me unsurprisingly this wicked weapon don't c

ome cheap in all the javelin is said to cost around 178 thousand dollars per unit but consider during the Kick-Ass capabilities of this thing I think it sounds like a bargain don't you dong Feng 41. now if you thought that Javelin was bulky then you've seen nothing yet introducing the dongfeng 41 otherwise known as df-41 this intercontinental ballistic missile or mycbm developed in China weighs a whopping 88 tons and is 72 feet long making it similar in size to an adult Sperm whale in case you w

ere wondering an ICBM is a missile that can be launched across the world with a minimum range of 3400 miles in all the df-41 has a range of some 8100 miles making it one of the world's longest ranged weapons for some context that's further than the distance between Shanghai and New York so the df-41 is huge and it can whiz around the world but what exactly is this thing packing well while these specifics are classified it's believed to contain 10 10 multiple independently targetable re-entry veh

icles or mervs a Merv is a type of ballistic missile that contains several nuclear warheads Each of which are independently targeted to different locations so in regards to the df-41 this missile has the capacity to drop 10 independently targeted nuclear warheads all around the world and considering the potential power of this weapon you don't want one dropping near you Chinese military analyst Shi ajao claimed that one df-41 could hit and Destroy mega cities such as New York without a problem m

an a whale-sized missile that can travel the world and munches on mega cities for breakfast anyone else fancy a trip to well I don't know Mars Hua song 17. across the border China's Infamous neighbor North Korea is best known for the dynastic dictatorship of its supreme leader Kim Jong-un but aside from that this country has also become notorious for its military Obsession in 2022 alone North Korea launched at least 95 missiles which averages out at one missile launch every four days and accordi

ng to the U.S state Department's World military expenditures and arms transfers report North Korea spent about four billion dollars on defense in 2019 a staggering 26 of its GDP clearly these guys like their weapons yet there's one particular Armament that's adored even more than the rest the hwasong 17. this missile takes the title for North Korea's most powerful weapon it's an ICBM first unveiled in October 22 20 that's 85 feet long and is believed to weigh up to 165 tons making it twice as he

avy as the imperious df-41 the exact capabilities of the missile aren't yet confirmed however the Japanese Ministry of Defense estimated that the range of this weapon could be even greater than the df-41 reaching a mind-blowing 9 300 miles if that wasn't terrifying enough the missile is also believed to have the capacity to carry between three or four mervs allowing this ICBM to attack several locations simultaneously much is still unknown about the capabilities of North Korea's hwa song 17 bein

g developed by a country that is shrouded in secrecy but any projectile that weighs 165 tons and can travel close to 10 000 miles it's my vote for being up there with the world's most unbelievable missiles Astra mark 1. as we've seen with the df-41 and the Hua song 17 modern missile technology is pretty mind-blowing but what's one way to make it even more metal well to have it launched from a plane of course turns out that's exactly what happens with the Astra Mark 1 an air-to-air missile launch

ed from aircraft with the goal of taking out enemy planes India's defense research and development organization unveiled the Astra Mark 1 in 2017. in all their incredible creation costing over nine hundred thousand dollars per unit is 12 feet long and weighs 340 pounds making it light enough to be carried on an aircraft without hindering its maneuverability but despite its size you shouldn't take this missile lightly with a firing range of up to 68 miles the Astra Mark 1 is capable of taking out

aerial targets far and wide this missile also uses Active Radar homing a guidance system that relies on the radar transmitter in the missile that emits a signal towards the target the signal bounces off the target before being directed by a receiver on the missile allowing it to track enemy aircraft oh and if being tracked by one of these while flying through the air wasn't enough the Astra Mark 1 is also capable of traveling at speeds of Mach 4.5 which is close to 3 500 miles per hour and the

final piece de resistance this missile carries a 33 pound high explosive Warhead so anything this fearsome flyer crashes into can expect to be obliterated that's okay I never wanted to fly anywhere ever again anyway Gustav Wicked weapons aren't something the world's most powerful militaries have just recently discovered though in fact to find the heaviest artillery piece ever built you've got to go all the way back to 1937. nearly 100 years ago it was at this time that the German manufacturer Kr

upp devised the shiverr Gustav a 155 foot long killing machine that weighed an unreal 1490 tons for perspective that's more than six times the weight of the Statue of Liberty in total this machine set Germany back 7 million reichsmark equivalent to about 30 million dollars today but it's not hard to see why the shurer Gustav was so large that aside from occasionally being mistaken from Mountain to reach the battlefield it had to be broken down and transported on 25 Railway seconds the question i

s who needs such a whopping weapon well as World War II Drew closer Germany was determined to invade France by destroying the French magnoline the strongest fortification that had ever existed the schwer Gustav seemed the perfect candidate for the job as it happened this big boy wasn't completed until 1942 at which point Germany had already invaded France so the gigantic Gustav was wheeled to Crimea on the Eastern Front instead it was here at the siege of sevastopol the awesome artillery would f

inally be tested in all it took four thousand men some five weeks to get the gun ready but eventually by June 1942 the schwer Gustav was good to go which was bad news for the city of Sebastopol this metal monster had 2 two Sinister shell types that it peppered the city with firstly seven ton concrete piercing shells that could fly 24 miles through the air one such projectile was reported to have penetrated 100 feet into the ground destroying a Russian underground ammunition store alongside that

this artillery could also unleash five ton shells packed with over 1500 pounds of explosives some 30 miles into the air although this Mega machine blew Sebastopol to Pieces the Germans ended up destroying the schwer Gustav just a few years later to prevent its seizure by the Allies anyone else thank their lucky stars that they'll never get blown to bits by this nightmare fuel Paris gun surprising as it sounds there's one piece of mobile artillery that comes close to rivaling the shurer Gustav in

terms of sheer size at first glance this may look like a half-completed bridge but what you're looking at is the Paris gun a long-range Siege weapon that was used in 1918 at the end of World War One in total this colossal Cannon was over 110 feet long with a barrel length close to 70 feet for reference the barrel alone was over twice the length of a standard School Bus despite the name France didn't have the honor of owning this gun it was a German weapon the Paris gun got its pretty apt nickna

me when the Germans used it to bombard the City of Paris the artillery's projectile was a three foot long shell composed of thick steel to make matters more grisly each shell was packed with around 15 pounds of TNT that would explode when they crash landed when the gun was first deployed parisians believed they were being bombed by a high altitude Zeppelin plane as the sound of neither a plane nor gun could be heard that's because the shells were coming from crepey the site where the Paris gun w

as based some 80 miles north of Paris around 350 shells were fired in total and they caused some serious Carnage however in 1918 when Germany lost the gun was destroyed to prevent the Allies from getting their hands on it well you know what they say what goes around comes around shrapnel shell 130 years before the Paris guns invention another piece of awesome artillery was created well an artillery munition to be precise Henry shrapnel this is the British Lieutenant responsible for devising the

shrapnel shell way back in 1784. an artillery munition packed with individual bullets inside its casing when fired a timed fuse inside the shell ignites an explosive charge causing the case to burst open in midair with that metal bullets spray outwards creating an arrow of deadly shrapnel that descends towards the enemy during World War One shrapnel shells like this British one were fired against troops in the open as the fragments could cover a wide area inflicting casualties on a large number

of soldiers the Gunners set the Shell's fuse time so that it would burst as it was angling back towards the ground around 450 feet before it reached the enemy a trained gun team could fire 20 shrapnel shells every minute and with each shell containing around 300 lead pellets that'd result in the Enemy being sprayed by 6 000 individual shrapnel balls per minute terrifying as endless waves of shrapnel bullet sound they weren't a constant in the war new weapons and tactics were quickly deployed min

imizing the effect of these Terrors which were eventually phased out in favor of more explosive shells hmm I must say I'm not sure if being riddled Head To Toe with sharp shrapnel sounds that much better than being blown to Pieces which do you think sounds worse for shrapnel hit that like button and for explosive endings hit subscribe all done great what have we got next thank you s 550. right let's bring things back to the 21st century and what better way to do that than with this air defense s

ystem whose development was completed in Russia back in 2021 the S550 as it's known is an air defense missile capable of hitting spacecraft with a maximum altitude to be in the thousands of miles as the projectile is still in its testing stage not too much is known about its full capabilities however by looking at its predecessor the s-500 we can get an insight into the potential power of this projectile essentially the s-500 is a Grizzly guard dog of a defense missile this thing can intercept a

nd Destroy icbms on top of that it can intercept and Destroy missiles as far as 370 miles away and Destroy aerial targets traveling at speeds higher than Mach 5. more than 3 800 miles per hour basically you don't want to mess with this thing now considering that the S550 has been described as a more specialized derivative of the s-500 chances are that this shiny new toy will be able to intercept and Destroy even faster missiles at an even greater range than its ancestor safe to say that all icbm

s out there are getting a sweat on Archer artillery system hailing from Sweden the Archer artillery system is every bit as badass as it looks today the Swedish army owns 26 Archers first developed by BAE Systems in 1995. and let me tell you it's not a bad weapon to have in your Arsenal the Archer costing around 4.5 million per unit is designed for high strategic operational and tactical Mobility so it helps that the system's fully automated 155 millimeter gun Howitzer and weapon station are moun

ted on a 6x6 chassis that can travel at speeds up to 56 miles per hour but the archers super speed doesn't end there this gun system is capable of firing eight rounds per minute making it the fastest firing artillery system of its caliber if that wasn't enough just 20 seconds after the final shot is fired this artillery system can be on the move again on top of that the Howitzer can be loaded with m982 Excalibur rounds giving the gun a roomy range of 31 miles the Excalibur shells are also correc

ted in Flight towards a pre-programmed Target by using a GPS guidance system allowing the Archer to accurately hit targets at long ranges is there anything the system can't do well considering it's Swedish it's probably flat pack as well m142 High Mars across the Atlantic in the U.S Lockheed Martin began developing their own awesome artillery system in the late 1990s say hello to the m142 high Mobility artillery rocket system better known as the m142 highmars this 4 million dollar artillery syst

em consists of a light multiple rocket launcher that's mounted onto a 5-ton truck chassis sounds impressive but what actually makes this such a formidable artillery system well the high Mars Only carries one pod which is capable of fitting two different missile configurations six guided multiple launch rocket system known as GM lrs or one Army tactical missile system or ATA CMS firstly the GM lrs Rockets have an extended range hitting targets up to 93 miles away yet despite the distance these Ro

ckets hit their targets with accuracy thanks to their GPS based guidance system ATA CMS on the other hand is a 13 foot long two ton Mega missile yet even with its chunky size this thing can be launched some 190 miles more than twice as far as gmlrs like the gmlrs the ATA CMS system is also GPS aided allowing it to strike precisely where it's needed talk about a killer combo anti-tank missile not all artillery systems have made it off the production line however take this mind-blowing military co

ncept conceived by futuristic design company Tahir in chat known only as item one these strange looking devices would be dropped onto the battlefield by a cargo plane flying overhead in midair a parachute opens up allowing the devices to safely touch down on the ground now here's where things start to heat up after the devices make their Landing they become camouflaged by a grass-like screen blending perfectly into their surroundings you might be wondering what these things need to hide from wel

l it turns out these devices are in fact anti-tank artillery systems so in an unsuspecting tank approaches each system is triggered into action by a watching drone at this point the device activates spraying enemy tanks with what looks to be one anti-tank Miss every second with a double-ended arm able to Fire and reload their munition simultaneously being a concept design nothing else is known about the firing rate or force of the munition but would you really want to cross that thing yet as coo

l as it looks the concepts far from Flawless with the amount of time money and planning that can go into modern day Wars there's virtually no chance that a huge cargo plane will get a free ride over the top of a battle-prone airspace so none of these devices would ever get the chance to be dropped onto the battlefield in the first place but who knows maybe we'll soon see a tweaked version of to hear inshot's invention in the coming years I mean I hope I don't because that'll mean they've dropped

it outside my house smart 155. now one munition that's more than just a concept is the Smart 155 otherwise known as the sensor fused munition for artillery this 155 millimeter artillery round was first developed in 1989 by German company deal bgt defense before starting full rate production for the German Army in 1998 the 104 pound Heavy Artillery projectile is designed to be fire from the Panzer habitsa 2000 a self-propelled German Howitzer when fired you'd think the weight alone of the smart

155 shell could do some damage however the true power of this weapon doesn't come from its weight in mid-flight a timer fuse inside the shell ignites an ejector in the weapon dragging two submunitions out of the shell once they've escaped the shell case the submunitions drop downwards Falling Towards whatever Target they were fired at now here's where the smart 155 comes into a league of its own as the submunitions descend they open a parachute then while slowly descending the submunitions rotat

e scanning the area below with an infrared sensor and a millimeter wave radar each submunition's internal Electronics use a multi-mode sensor system allowing them to detect targets and reject false threats then once they've detected a Target beneath them the submunitions detonate their explosive payload in close proximity to the Target this creates a high velocity explosion striking the target vehicle from above where the armor is typically much weaker fair to say the smart 155 certainly lives u

p to its name phalanx ciws 20 years before the smart 155 was developed American company General Dynamics designed what is now one of the most fearsome defense systems the world's ever seen the Phalanx ciws is a 5.6 million dollar defensive weapon system used to protect military vessels against aircraft missile and Naval threats this defense system consists of a Vulcan Cannon fitted onto a swiveling base many other Mandalorian fans think this looks a bit like the long-lost brother of ig-11 anyway

not only does this defense system look intimidating it's also capable of firing up to 4 500 rounds per minute and to make it even more metal the Phalanx ciws has a muzzle velocity close to 2500 miles per hour making this Killer's firing speed over three times the speed of sound if that wasn't enough the Vulcan Cannon is radar guided allowing the gun to move at rapid speeds and take down targets with pinpoint Precision in all it's believed that it takes just two seconds for the phalanx's gun to

react to any threat detection by 2007 around 900 failing systems were built and 22 countries had these defense systems deployed in their navies I can't say I'm surprised I mean what nation wouldn't want a laser-guided death machine version of ig-11 in their Arsenal 3m-22 zircon and badasses the Phalanx ciws sounds and it have its work cut out for it if it were to come up against this next missile introducing the 3m-22 Zircon an anti-ship Hypersonic missile produced in 2021 for the Russian Navy b

ut what is a Hypersonic missile well first off these things travel at well you guessed it Hypersonic speeds flying between speeds of Mach 5 to 10 or 4 000 to 7600 miles per hour in comparison the supersonic missiles like the HD1 here can reach speeds up to Mach 3.5 or 2 700 miles per hour anyway Hypersonic lesson over let's get back to the Zircon this missile can travel at speeds up to 6900 miles per hour allowing it to reach Macha 9. unsurprisingly this super speed makes the Zircon extremely di

fficult to intercept and defend against even for ig-11 over there the high velocity that the missile travels at also causes air pressure to form a plasma cloud in front of the Zircon as it moves This Cloud absorbs radio waves making the missile practically invisible to enemy radar systems I'm startling as that is you probably won't be surprised to know that this missile don't come cheap while currently classified information experts believe the Zircon May cost an eye-watering 211 million dollars

per missile at such a steep price this Hypersonic missile needs more than speed to justify its price and rest assured it's worth it the Zircon also has a lengthy range capable of hitting targets 625 miles away that means this projectile could almost reach Oslo from St Petersburg oh and the trip would take all of five minutes hey Elon what when are we going to Mars again is it is it soon please tell me it's soon real railgun turns out it's not just Hypersonic missiles that have a fast and furiou

s reputation railguns are also known for their super speed and before the gaming contingent asks no I'm not talking about the weapon that you can pick up in GTA 5. I'm talking about the linear motor device that uses electromagnetic force to help fire projectiles faster than any other weapon on the planet this munition monster consists of two parallel metal rails along which an electric current is passed the current creates a strong magnetic field that propels a metal slug projectile along the ra

ils at super speed recently a U.S Navy prototype railgun launched a projectile at Mach 6 around 4 600 miles per hour considering that explosive powered military guns can't achieve a muzzle velocity greater than Mach 5.9 Braille guns are believed to be the fast firing weapon on Earth and if brisk bullets weren't enough railguns with Mach 6 capabilities are also believed to be capable of firing projectiles close to 110 nautical miles recent reports indicate that China are in the process of develop

ing their own fully fledged electrical destruction machine their prototype was said to have launched a projectile well-passed Mach 7 at a speed close to 5500 miles per hour if that wasn't crazy enough the projectile was also said to hit targets 155 miles away yeah despite the capabilities of this weapon the railgun isn't Flawless the powerful electric currents generate significant heat damaging the rails and other components of the weapon making the railgun useless after a few rounds on top of t

hat railguns require significant power to operate a 1947 report theorized these B used enough energy upon firing a single shot to light up half of Chicago unsurprisingly so much power isn't cheap with the estimated costs of the U.S Navy's prototype railgun hitting 500 million dollars who knows if we'll see a breakthrough in the railgun World soon not that I'm desperate to coexist with weapons flinging projectiles seven times the speed of sound anyway before I go I want to say thanks to conflict

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