Pushka
12-03-2005, 21:52
"Another press conferenss is in affect, a round room has a huge television screen on its eastern wall. On the screen an elderly scientist prepares himself for the video-conferenss. One of the reporters gets up from her sit and asks a question"
Reporter: Proffesor Fedorov, what can you tell us about this new artillery shell that will supposedly greatly improve our military might.
Fedorov: This is a great baby of mine. I came about these idea then i ran into some files regarding the united, computerized military system which is being designed for Pushkan ground forces as we speak. You heard about it in the last week's press conferenss there my colleagues did a great job of explaining our advancements. As you already know in near future all of Pushka's military forces will be controlled through computerized links connected to the headquarters, the information will be shared instantly, each individual soldier, member of a tank crew, jet fighter pilot and others, would be able to visually view whats going on on the battelfield. This has been explained very well in last week's press conferenss so i am not going to go farther in it.
My idea goes even farther, beyond simply allowing our soldiers to know the location of the enemy, i propose to let our weapons know that as well, and act upon it.
I have worked with designing a perfect shell with maneuvering capabilities for several years before i ran into those fateful files. I was nearing the completio of my project but then i extended it. As of now i present to you a prototype of an artillery shell that will once fired be able to maneuver into the enemy with a starteling precision.
"The screen shows an artillery shell, it comes in to parts with thick metal strings connecting the upper, regular-shell shaped part with the lower circular shaped one. The shell is winged, but its wings are packed tightly to its sides."
Fedorov, the chemicals that will explode to cause the shell to move are contained in the lower half of the shell, the maximum range is 30 killometers.
It doesn't not seem much but let me tell you more. Once the chemicals explode it flies out of the gun and into the air, once its in the air, the satelite automatically establishes a link with it and gives it a target which is specified by the artillery post from which the shell was fired, the process takes less then 12 seconds. The link doesn't just input the coordinates of an object into the shell's computer it also imputs the heat signature and other features that would allow for the shell to recognize the target even if its moving, tracking it down with a stunning precision of 0.3 m.
After the computer has began tracking the object it computes distance to it and if the distance is greater then the original maximum range of 30 killometers a second chemical reaction occurs, increasing the shell's maximum range to 90 killometers, after that it opens up its wings and glides into the target with the speed of 370 killometers per hour. It can do 360 degree turns and other things, according to the testing we have done on moving objects the computer's calculations are flawless, it will measure everything from the time it will take to get to the object to the best possible angle at which to impact the object.
This is only the beggining, in the next decade we expect computers to become small enough to fit in a regular size bullet, then we will have bullets that would be able to track their target, we have a great void of possibilities ahead of us.
"The press conferenss is over."
Reporter: Proffesor Fedorov, what can you tell us about this new artillery shell that will supposedly greatly improve our military might.
Fedorov: This is a great baby of mine. I came about these idea then i ran into some files regarding the united, computerized military system which is being designed for Pushkan ground forces as we speak. You heard about it in the last week's press conferenss there my colleagues did a great job of explaining our advancements. As you already know in near future all of Pushka's military forces will be controlled through computerized links connected to the headquarters, the information will be shared instantly, each individual soldier, member of a tank crew, jet fighter pilot and others, would be able to visually view whats going on on the battelfield. This has been explained very well in last week's press conferenss so i am not going to go farther in it.
My idea goes even farther, beyond simply allowing our soldiers to know the location of the enemy, i propose to let our weapons know that as well, and act upon it.
I have worked with designing a perfect shell with maneuvering capabilities for several years before i ran into those fateful files. I was nearing the completio of my project but then i extended it. As of now i present to you a prototype of an artillery shell that will once fired be able to maneuver into the enemy with a starteling precision.
"The screen shows an artillery shell, it comes in to parts with thick metal strings connecting the upper, regular-shell shaped part with the lower circular shaped one. The shell is winged, but its wings are packed tightly to its sides."
Fedorov, the chemicals that will explode to cause the shell to move are contained in the lower half of the shell, the maximum range is 30 killometers.
It doesn't not seem much but let me tell you more. Once the chemicals explode it flies out of the gun and into the air, once its in the air, the satelite automatically establishes a link with it and gives it a target which is specified by the artillery post from which the shell was fired, the process takes less then 12 seconds. The link doesn't just input the coordinates of an object into the shell's computer it also imputs the heat signature and other features that would allow for the shell to recognize the target even if its moving, tracking it down with a stunning precision of 0.3 m.
After the computer has began tracking the object it computes distance to it and if the distance is greater then the original maximum range of 30 killometers a second chemical reaction occurs, increasing the shell's maximum range to 90 killometers, after that it opens up its wings and glides into the target with the speed of 370 killometers per hour. It can do 360 degree turns and other things, according to the testing we have done on moving objects the computer's calculations are flawless, it will measure everything from the time it will take to get to the object to the best possible angle at which to impact the object.
This is only the beggining, in the next decade we expect computers to become small enough to fit in a regular size bullet, then we will have bullets that would be able to track their target, we have a great void of possibilities ahead of us.
"The press conferenss is over."