What weapons do you think the US military should be building or developing?

8 Comments

1. djack2867 says:

   March 15, 2010 at 10:23 pm

   They’re already doing most of the stuff mentioned above. Join the AF if you want to help. A better bullet proof vest. The ones now weigh 38lbs are not flexible (hard to move in) and hotter than hell. They tested a flexible one, but it didn’t pass. Saw some new stuff under development, but also not good enough yet. Anything to make the soldier load lighter rather than heavier, & comfortable rather than impossible to move or work in.

   They’re also working on smaller bombs they can carry more of. If you got super accurate guidance, you don’t really need to level the whole city block to hit the one house. That should be hurried along if you ask me. Really good stuff gets invented on the fly in wartime adaptation & evolution. The sci-fi stuff is cool, but no substitute for well-trained troops doing their job professionally. Technology is less of an edge than you think.

   For the guy saying cheaper stuff: it does wear out not to mention get blown up. We could have bought a better alternative than the Stryker for 10% of the cost, and we could design something better than the humvees that are not deigned to carry armor & then overloaded with the stuff so they fall apart fast. Just bad management & vision.
2. Cletus says:

   March 15, 2010 at 10:23 pm

   anything robotic
3. extton says:

   March 15, 2010 at 10:23 pm

   Particle beams and railguns. Lasers too, perhaps. Big ones. They’re already doing the railguns, actually…and the lasers.

   Anything very, very long rang, and very destructive. We want weapons that can be used to quickly stop violence, before it becomes a war.
4. MantisR says:

   March 15, 2010 at 10:23 pm

   Focused Lazer…..or…….plasma pulse
   give em about 10 more yrs. by-by bullets
5. mat_wisniewski says:

   March 15, 2010 at 10:23 pm

   I think it’s not the weapons actually. They have enough guns to handle any opponent right now.
   If it were me, I’d put more money and effort into protective technology – better (and lighter) personal armor, better adapted to various climate conditions. Also, vehicles providing better protection to men inside (to keep them safe from light weapons fire and improvised explosive devices… also, light man-portable AT systems like RPGs).
   All to minimize loses.
6. glock509 says:

   March 15, 2010 at 10:23 pm

   x wing fighters
7. retrotrancer says:

   March 15, 2010 at 10:23 pm

   Space based orbital radiation weapons, and lethal robotic vehicles. Anyone remember those "sentry" machine guns in the movie ‘Aliens’? Man, just plant a few of them outside of defended positions (or maybe just north of the U.S./Mexico border) and rock & roll.
8. xirekaj says:

   March 15, 2010 at 10:23 pm

   THigns dont cost us alot so we can atleast stop spending mroe than we take in. For example use what we got right now its better then everything else in the world right now anyway