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Military Technologies

This document provides an overview of military technologies used in conflicts, both current and future. It begins with introducing the Institute of Defence Technologies at Kaunas University of Technology and their focus on analyzing military technologies. The document then discusses how war has historically driven innovation in science and technology. Several current and emerging military technologies are surveyed, including battlefield reconnaissance using drones and satellites, enemy detection radar systems, advances in firearms and soldier equipment, the growing role of military robots, anti-missile defense systems, virtual reality training simulations, and potential future projects like electromagnetic guns and chemical lasers. The document stresses that progress in all areas of science and engineering contributes to developing new military technologies.

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Military Technologies

This document provides an overview of military technologies used in conflicts, both current and future. It begins with introducing the Institute of Defence Technologies at Kaunas University of Technology and their focus on analyzing military technologies. The document then discusses how war has historically driven innovation in science and technology. Several current and emerging military technologies are surveyed, including battlefield reconnaissance using drones and satellites, enemy detection radar systems, advances in firearms and soldier equipment, the growing role of military robots, anti-missile defense systems, virtual reality training simulations, and potential future projects like electromagnetic guns and chemical lasers. The document stresses that progress in all areas of science and engineering contributes to developing new military technologies.

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KAUNAS

UNIVERSITY
OF TECHNOLOGY

INSTITUTE
OF DEFENCE
TECHNOLOGIES

MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES IN
FUTURE CONFLICTS

Tel.:
+ 370 37 223 023
Fax :
+ 370 37 300 405
E-mail : gti@ktu.lt
Kestucio str. 27, LT 44312 Kaunas, Lithuania

CONTENT

Introduction

Classification of military technologies

Survey of some military technologies of today and the future

Battlefield reconnaissance

Enemy detection systems

Firearms

Soldier equipment

Military robots

Anti-missile shield

Military training equipment

Future armament projects

INTRODUCTION
War is an organized armed conflict that is carried out by states, nations, national and
social groups.
REASONS AND AIMES OF THE WAR:
Aggressiveness of a human and human society;
The struggle for power territory treasures resources (including natural resources);
Political domination;
Ideological and religion contradictions;
Sovereignty aspiration.

WAR IS THE ENGINE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:


War is the father or all things (Heraclites)
War is the strife for power (Plato, Aristotle)
War is the natural state of mankind (Thomas Hobbes)

ALL MODERN AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGIES


WERE BORN BY WAR NEEDS:
Chemistry - explosive materials;
Astronomy - navigation for captains of military ships;
Metallurgy - weapon casting;
Mathematic exterior ballistics of bullets and shells.

FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES THE ACHIEVEMENTS IN


ALL AREAS AND FIELDS OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ARE APPLIED:
social humanities,
biology,

mechanical engineering and mechatronics,


material science,

medicine,
physics (all areas),

information technologies,
electronics,

aeronautics,
optical electronics,

telecommunications,
transport engineering.

MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES

Intelligence and counterintelligence security methods

Enemy detection systems

State border protection


systems

Psychotropic weapons

Anti-missile shield

Non-lethal weapons

Firearms

Soldier equipage

Space weaponry technologies

Electromagnetic pulse
weapons

Mines and demining


technologies

Amours and their technologies

Tectonic weapon

Laser weapons

Plasma weapons

Military medicine

Cybernetic technologies in an
army

Communications and information encryption in warfare

Anti radar materials

Future weapons

Energy sources in an army

Military positioning and


navigation systems

Military electronics

Military positioning and


navigation systems

Reactive materials in warfare

Military training facilities

Weapon manufacturing
technologies

BATTLEFIELD RECONNAISSANCE

The aim:
the exploration of the future battlefield;
receiving the information on the enemy's force
structure, its location, and potential.
Means:
unmanned air vehicles;
radars;
sonars;
space satellites.

ENEMY DETECTION SYSTEMS


Enemy detection systems for the reconnaissance of mortar and
rocket fire positions in a battlefield are effectively used.
The radar systems scan the horizon and determines the positioning
of mortars or rockets at the moment of their firing.
Advantages:
mobility - the radars are mounted in off-road vehicles;
operative - the system is prepared for operation in a few
minutes;
large area of operation - the system covers the area of a
20 -75 km radius.

FIREARMS

Basic aims:
to increase shooting precision;
to improve ballistic parameters;
to increase the firing rate;
to apply nontraditional principles for firearms.

SOLDIER EQUIPMENT
Today, soldiers are involved in all military conflicts. The soldiers combat
spirit and effectiveness on the battlefield is highly dependent on technical
supply, weaponry, personal satisfaction and even comfort conditions.
Therefore, huge attention is paid to the soldiers equipage and medical
assistance, the monitoring of his physical and psychological state. This not
only helps to raise the combat spirit of soldiers, but also to reduce the
manpower losses in the battlefield.

MILITARY ROBOTS
Robots play a constantly increasing role in
warfare

they
are
unmanned
aerial
reconnaissance and combat vehicles, demining
robots, (e.g. SPIKER, RASP), universal military
robots capable of substituting soldiers (Warrior
700), robots making corridors in mine fields etc.
Nevertheless, the ethical issues on the
applications of robots in warfare and the problems
of the latters consistency with Geneva
conventions appear already.

ANTI-MISSILE SHIELD
In case of global military conflict, the role of antimissile defence becomes very important.
Although anti-missile defence with a hundred
percent reliability was not reached by any
country, huge efforts are put into this area. For
this purpose early attack detection systems,
controllable rockets, high power lasers are used.

MILITARY TRAINING EQUIPMENT

At all times, an army has been and currently is a structure having the
capability of self-learning. In modern armed forces of the developed countries
for soldier training, combat shooting more and more widely is substituted by
computerized appliances or semi natural shooting simulators.
A lot of different simulators for training pilots, skippers and other persons
performing combat operations have been developed.

FUTURE ARMAMENT PROJECTS


Futuristic armament projects:
God rods;
Metal storm;
Powerful electromagnetic guns;
High power chemical laser;
Cavitation torpedo.

This was only a few examples of futuristic projects. Some of them will be
implemented and others probably not, but in general their ideas are actual
not only for warfare. We would like to believe that such technologies will
never be used according to their direct destination, but will be applied by
mankind for peaceful purposes.

Thank You for Your attention!

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