What do you do if you are a soldier and all of a sudden a huge cloud or swarm of insects approaches? Picture a bunch of killer bees in a swarm times ten or a hundred? And picture them moving at about 30-40 miles per hour? Scared yet? Well maybe you should be as this will be part of the future battlespace and as we design these weapons so to will our future enemies. As nations change sides from allies to enemies in the never-ending game of Machiavellian Chess, who knows who will have such weapons like this? As the swarm gets closer you see these are not bees, wasps, yellow jackets, locusts or any known organic swarming insect but rather micro-mechanical devices made by man to come and get you? Picture the Movie; Prey. When being attacked by a swarm of insects or micro-mechanical replicas, well there is not a lot you can do but run and really fast unless you have a high-powered directional stun gun to shoot at them. We currently have stun guns and the military researchers have a few tricks up their sleeves, which they are trying out. Directional stun guns in the future maybe the best answer to stop either organic swarms controlled by and enemy or robotic incoming swarms trying to overwhelm our troops. We need to continue to push for more break-thrus in this area of science to protect us from such threats we will be seeing in the battlespace within the next decade or two. Consider all this in 2006. |
