Silver bullets!
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The book "Defending the lion city" by Tim Huxley says something about the SAF having silver bullets to be used during the emergencies. He have said something about the Russian SS-21 surface to surface missile with a range of 12okm. I was wondering if we have chemical weapons to be used in these missiles as we definitely have the technology,money and political will to do so. Another thing is about the MRLS from USA. Seems very capable and much needed by our artillery to counter the Malaysian missile launchers. Comments?
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I know of someone in the military who told mi straight in the face that the silver bullets in our armed force are to be use agaisnt very extreme enemies........
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is silver bullet very powerful?
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Well....They will be extremely effective against those who try to sink their teeth into SG neckOriginally posted by BrUtUs:is silver bullet very powerful?
Didn't you know?....Our new water is actually holy water too....
( Must be watching too much vampire movies
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Silver bullets to be used in emergencies? What kind of emergencies??? Werewolf or vampire invasion?
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Any specific scenarios other that water and outright invasion, when SG will use them? Anyone heard any programmes?
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I believe the possible existence of SS-21 was discussed before in some other thread. We all agreed that the probability of SAF acquiring such weapon was almost nil given that:
1. it is too high profile (Russian made), plus the first tactical ballistic missiles in the region will cause neighbours up north and south to scream!
2. Cost effectiveness in the battlefield is dubious. It will provide psychological fear that will lead to uncontrollable arm race.
3. Such weapons are hard to hide and we would have seen it by now.
Thus, this silver bullet theory is just bulls**t.
Singapore does have silver bullets though... in different form... many are the direct products of extensive R&D from DSTA and DSO. Will not eleborate further
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What silver bullet? No... we do not have silver bullets such as 15 storey tall gundam assault suits with particle beam cannons and laser swords... " I have no information about this and cannot discuss about it."
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Joe Black, you seems to know alot!
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Current technologies that can be acquired by the SAF, will be the new ammo type - 'Silver Bullets' that ride on a laser beam, after being fired, and can change trajectory path mid-flight to the target.
No more 'wash out' target practises, and the short-sighted NSF soldier can hit any target from the safety of his foxhole, with the targetted picture beamed into a hand held Palm device from platoon or section level UAVs. -
Hard to image such a bullet can be achieved even with current Nano technology. Given that a bullet does not have any propulsion system plus it practically relies on the kinetic energy generated at the ignition of the gun power, while it doesn't have any aerodynamic "wings" to change course and direction, I can't see how the above can be achieved.Originally posted by Atobe:Current technologies that can be acquired by the SAF, will be the new ammo type - 'Silver Bullets' that ride on a laser beam, after being fired, and can change trajectory path mid-flight to the target.
No more 'wash out' target practises, and the short-sighted NSF soldier can hit any target from the safety of his foxhole, with the targetted picture beamed into a hand held Palm device from platoon or section level UAVs.
However, I would suggest that a new electronically fired infantry weapon could be developed in the future where the future bullets will have miniture IR seeker and deploy "wings" to do minor flight adjustments. The weapon will have a IR imager that locks onto the target, pass the target and environmental information (distance, temperature, humidity, IR signature strength, etc) to the bullet before being fired. The fired bullet will do all the necessary calculation and necessary flight adjustment and guide its remaining energy to the target. Of course the cavet is that the flight adjustment won't be big, thus, the original target position cannot be too far off from the initial calculated point.
Alternatively, if the weapon is size up to fire a bullet that contains minitual propulsion system, then we have an assault weapon like the one they used in the movie "The Fifth element" where the bullet will wizz towards the target... too sci fi for me though.
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Hmm... kinda reminds me of the cartoon bullets in "Who shot Roger Rabbit?" The bullets argue among themselves about where to go and eventually go the wrong way. So much for 'smart bullets'...Originally posted by Atobe:Current technologies that can be acquired by the SAF, will be the new ammo type - 'Silver Bullets' that ride on a laser beam, after being fired, and can change trajectory path mid-flight to the target.
No more 'wash out' target practises, and the short-sighted NSF soldier can hit any target from the safety of his foxhole, with the targetted picture beamed into a hand held Palm device from platoon or section level UAVs.