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Armour-piercing rounds
Anti-tank rounds which contain extremely dense materials to help penetrate armour plating. Typically the dense material is depleted uranium
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Countermeasures
The term used to describe any technology to repel an incoming threat. For example aircraft now eject chaff – bits of foil – to confuse radar seeking missiles, while flares can distract heat-seekers. A [..]
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Directed energy weapons
About the closest thing you get to a ray gun. This class of weapon directs electromagnetic energy
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Fire-and-forget
This is the concept of launching missiles that cannot be re-directed afterwards. But after countless examples of these missiles hitting the wrong target, the military is developing missiles with commu [..]
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Force fields
An experimental technology which aims to deflect armour piercing (or anti-tank) rounds. These munitions fragment on impact with armoured vehicles, creating clouds of superheated metal dust which helps [..]
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