This is the American Minuteman III silo-based ballistic missile and it is extremely dangerous.
Capable of carrying up to three individually-guided nuclear warheads,
this ballistic missile can hit several targets with only
one shot. Today we will show you 12 of the most powerful weapons in the world in action.
Our list starts with the Russian Uranium-9 multifunctional robotic combat system.
One might even say that the engineers were inspired by the robot from the movie Robocop.
However, the Russians went even further in terms of armament and,
in addition to the automatic cannon, installed four anti-tank missiles
and 12 rocket launchers on their creation. The whole armament complex allows for hitting
large targets at a distance of up to 3.5 miles without direct human intervention.
Guided or smart bombs are a combination of significant warhead power and
a high accuracy in hitting a target. They are equipped with a control and guidance
system that allows for a change of target mid-flight. For example, the KAB-1500 bomb,
which Russia used in the military operation in Syria, can penetrate 10 feet of reinforced
concrete, and its accuracy is up to 13 feet. So hiding from it is impractical, to say the least.
However, there is an even more dangerous type of aviation weapon.
A cluster bomb is a projectile filled with a large number of small bombs.
When the cluster bomb is dropped, a parachute is opened, which causes it to brake and stabilize
in flight. The bombs are then ejected from the carrier. To increase the range, the bombs fall
along a vertical trajectory. A single 990 feet CVU 89 cluster bomb contains 72 anti-tank bombs and 22
anti-personnel mines. One such bomb creates a minefield the size of a baseball field.
The main problem with their use is that the failure rate of these
munitions in recent conflicts has ranged from 10% to 40%.
A lot of discarded bombs are left in the area of their use, which can detonate at any moment,
making the area uninhabitable. Today, cluster bombs are banned
in 108 countries because they are regarded as being among the most inhumane weapons.
The AK-630M-2 DUET is a Russian dual-automatic artillery gun
designed to defeat unmanned and manned airborne weapons. It is the world's fastest firing gun
with a rate of 10,000 rounds per minute. The twin-automatic artillery launcher is capable
of showering a hail of rounds on the enemy at a range of up to 3.5 miles. The visible cannon top
is made of radio-absorbing materials, effectively turning the DUET into a stealth launcher.
This m134 mini-gun is the only machine gun in the world that can be operated remotely without
any human intervention. Thanks to its spectacular appearance, it is very much loved by filmmakers.
If you watched Fast & Furious 7 attentively, you'd probably remember it. However, this mini-gun is
also widely used in various branches of the U.S. military and not only. It can fire up to
6,000 rounds per minute, forming an impenetrable wall of 7.62 millimeter bullets for the enemy.
The Russian Bastion coastal missile system is designed to defeat enemy ships and vessels. Each
Bastion battery consists of four launchers with two P-800 Onyx missiles on each. Four more trucks
carry a double supply of missiles behind them. Due to their mobility, just one Bastion can cover
375 miles of coastline. That is, 33 such vehicles would be needed to fully protect
the entire U.S. coastline. The Onyx supersonic missiles have a top speed of 0.5 miles per second
and can hit targets up to 310 miles away and tear apart enemy ships. It takes only 5
minutes to deploy the ballistic missile and only 2.5 seconds between rocket launches.
The S-400 Triumph is a Russian anti-aircraft missile system designed to destroy aerial targets,
including supersonic stealth aircraft and ballistic missiles. The flight speed of the
launched missiles is an inconceivable 3 miles per second. By comparison,
NASA's X-43 hypersonic drone has a top speed of 2 miles per second. The C-400 needs only
10 seconds to react to a threat up to 375 miles away and strike it with its hypersonic missiles.
The TOS-1A "Solntsepek" is a heavy multiple rocket launcher system based on the T-72 tank.
The undercarriage of the heavy flamethrower system is equipped with rails for 24 rockets,
which can be fired in a full salvo in 7 seconds. The TOS-1A system has a range of 7.5 miles which
is vastly superior to that of conventional main battle tanks with a range of only 330 to
660 feet. The operating principle is as follows. After launching, the munition creates a cloud of
explosive mixture and then detonates it, forcing all the oxygen in the cloud to enter into this
reaction. As a consequence of the instant detonation, the pressure rises sharply and
then falls below atmospheric pressure. This means that even if the enemy survives the explosion,
the pressure drop results in a guaranteed death from the rupture of internal organs.
The Tornado-S multiple launch rocket system is the successor of the famous Russian Smerch air
defense system. It is the longest-range and most dangerous air defense system in the world. And
here's why. Engineers equipped it with new guided missiles and an automated fire control system
that allows each of the missiles to be assigned its own individual coordinates. Interestingly,
in addition to range programming, the missiles can also be given their own flight path,
allowing a single shot to tackle multiple targets simultaneously. A full salvo of the
Tornado-S obliterates everything in an area of 67 hectares! There's no hiding from that!
The Archer Artillery System is a fully automated self-propelled artillery
system that provides highly accurate and versatile fire support to troops in combat.
Mounted on an all-terrain chassis, it can be used in all types of weather
and rugged terrain. The speed at which the Archer can travel is up to 45 mph,
making it one of the fastest self-propelled guns in the world. The 155mm long-range cannon is able
to cover enemy positions in just thirty seconds after receiving all necessary target coordinates.
After firing its first shot, the Archer Artillery System will fire five to seven more
shots and then promptly reposition itself almost a kilometer away to continue firing at the enemy.
Should the battlefield be the ocean, the most powerful weapon
is undoubtedly the nuclear-powered submarine. This is the "Ohio" class submarine,
and it is the deadliest of all submarines of this class. One such sub is capable of carrying 24
Trident II D5 ballistic missiles, each with up to 12 W88 nuclear warheads of 475 kilotons each.
To give you an idea, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima had about the power of a
single warhead. The U.S. Navy currently has fourteen such submarines in service.
One fired missile is capable of hitting twelve different targets at a distance
of up to 7,020 miles. Just imagine what would happen if all 336 missiles with 4,032 warheads
were launched simultaneously. No air defense system in the world would withstand that.
Now let's move on to the deadliest weapons on the planet.
The RS-28 "Sarmat" is the longest-range and most dangerous missile on earth.
It weighs 200 tons, which is more than the weight of an empty Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, and has a payload
of 10 tons, which is more than the weight of the F-16 Fighting Falcon. Scared already? Hang on,
because there's more. A single RS-28 "Sarmat" ICBM is capable of delivering 7.5 nuclear megatons,
enough to leave the state of California in ruins. In addition, the Sarmat can fly around missile
defense zones on unpredictable trajectories, even through the South Pole. It can maneuver at Mach
15, which makes it impossible to intercept. It is frightening to imagine what would happen if 10
of these missiles were launched simultaneously. We sincerely hope that this will never happen.
Well, that's all for today. Let us know in the comments which weapon impressed you the most.
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