The most powerful weapon - the arms race continues

Paraphrasing an American architect, we can say that the war will always be in vogue. Or wars will disappear, or - people. Therefore, as development progresses, states, companies and individuals seek to create the most powerful weapons in a particular category, using new technologies. For example, such an ancient weapon as a crossbow today is a mechanism capable of killing an elephant (the American model of Stryker), because The arrow, fired from it, flies with an initial velocity of 123 meters per second and has a kinetic energy of 210 joules (for the elephant, 125 joules are enough).

The most powerful weapon in the category of pistols is represented by several models. The first of these is the "Thunder 50 bmg", firing a cartridge of 99x12.7 mm. The second - Pfeiffer Tselinski, which weighs 6 kg, has a trunk of 20 (40.6 cm). The gun drum holds 5 cartridges weighing 33 grams and costing $ 40 each (the gun costs more than $ 17,000). The weapon shoots at a speed of 2.1 thousand km / h and has a blast energy of more than 4.3 thousand joules. The return is more than 40 J, which indicates that this is a "toy" not only for the rich, but also for very strong people. The above models are produced serially. But the most powerful pistol in the world at the moment is made in Poland in one copy. The creation of Richard Tobis has a caliber of a bullet 28 mm and weighs 45 kilograms.

The most powerful weapon in the tank troops at the moment is represented by the domestic T-90 tank. This giant weighs more than 46 tons, is equipped with a 125-millimeter cannon with an ammunition for 43 rounds, a coupled machine gun (ammunition for two thousand cartridges), an anti-aircraft gun. A distinctive feature of Russian military products is that the tank shoots 2-2.5 times farther than its foreign counterparts, which makes it possible to hit targets without getting hit by tank fire.

However, tanks are far from missiles. In this group, Russia again has the most powerful weapon. This is a ballistic complex "Satan" of the "ground-air" class. It is a 34-meter long rocket with a diameter of about 3 meters and weighing 211 tons. The range is 16 thousand kilometers, and the nuclear charge capacity is from 8 to 20 megatons. The start-up equipment can be ready for action in 1 minute.

We can say that Russia is a country where over 50 years ago the most powerful weapon in the world was tested. This happened on the Lesser Land on a nuclear test site. There was blown up "Kuz'kina mother" - a thermonuclear "Tsar-bomb" with a capacity of 57 megatons (in TNT equivalent). The explosion was so strong that the shock wave went around the globe three times, which fixed special devices.

But on a smaller scale, we are inferior to other states where fine examples of civilian weapons are being developed. For example, America leads the production of hunting rifles, including the "Kuakenbush" model, which is the most powerful pneumatic weapon. This gun is produced by a man who himself is a hunter, for rifle bullets of standard caliber (most often 0.458). When a 32-gram bullet is fired, the charge exit rate is more than 200 meters per second with an energy of about 650 Joules.

It can not be discounted that the United States, which is the main opposing party to the Russian Federation, has never cut its military budget. In this country high-tech aircraft of the fifth generation, anti-aircraft complexes ("Patriot"), new tanks, anti-missile defense system have been developed. Therefore, it can be argued that the arms race continues today.