10 Most Insane Weapons In The World

since the dawn of warfare man has always strived to invent the perfect weapon to defeat his enemies and it really is amazing how far we've come since then with some organizations inventing some unreal weapons from a fully automatic 12-gauge shotgun to a crazy gun that fires over 1 million rounds per minute check out these 10 insane military technologies auto assault 12 the aa-12 Auto assault shotgun is one of the rarest and most sought-after shotguns in the world it was originally developed by Maxwell Atchison during his time at military armaments corporation in the early 70s production rights were then sold to Gerry Weber of military police systems in 1987 who released his improved model in 2004 and a year later it entered production after having no less than 200 changes and improvements over the original blueprint the aa12 is a fully automatic gas operated API blowback shotgun chambered for two three-quarter inch 12-gauge shells including buckshot flares slugs stun batons and high-explosive fragmenting it can use two types of magazines a detachable eight round box magazine or a drum with capacity ranging from 20 to 32 rounds it has a cyclic rate of 300 rounds per minute with a muzzle velocity of 1,050 feet per second the slow rate of fire makes single shots or bursts very easy to achieve by briefly pulling the trigger despite the fact that it fires in full auto only expanding bullet it's interesting to know that even war has rules when it comes to using certain kinds of ammunition during the first world war German newspapers began accusing the French along with mythical Belgian free shooters of using what was called a dum-dum or expanding bullets an official German complaint showed that the British were issuing this ammunition to its army the bullet 0.45 5 MK 4 round was a flat nosed unjacketed man stopper type of ammunition it was quickly withdrawn from front-line service because it was outlawed by the 1907 Hague Convention because they could cause terrible wounds and unnecessary suffering it was the Indian army that developed the hollow nose expanding bullet and dum-dum an industrial municipality outside of Calcutta and where the round got its name from bullets with pointed tips were then designed for use in the early 1900's to improve ballistic performance but these had a tendency to tumble upon entering the human body and sometimes causing far more damage than gum dumps the interesting thing is that hollow-point ammunition is widely used by police forces in the USA because of its stopping power along with the argument that restricting them would harm innocent bystanders nerve agent VX when it comes to being the most insane and deadly weapons of all time VX or venomous Agent X should be at the top of the list stockpiles of the stuff have been continually destroyed since the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1997 outlawed their use classified by the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction and defined by the CDC as the most potent of all nerve agents VX is an incredibly potent and rapid acting poison that cripples the nervous system and causes total paralysis and eventually the victim suffocates it is fatal after breathing in just 25 to 30 milligrams or just 10 milligrams if it comes into contact with the skin once in the body it works rapidly by acting on a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine which neurons rely on to send signals to muscles ordering them to move once the signals are sent acetylcholine breaks down ending the line of communication VX prevents acetylcholine from breaking down resulting in an overabundance of communication the muscles get overstimulated and the brain can no longer control the body's movements symptoms include blurred vision drooling and sweating rapid breathing and irregular heart rate it is when the muscles that guide the chests rise and fall during breathing are affected that it becomes a major problem and when they are paralyzed breathing becomes impossible and it all happens within minutes no wonder this terrible weapon is outlawed hydrogen bomb the hydrogen bomb or thermonuclear bomb is more powerful than atomic or fission bombs like the ones that were used to devastate the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War two those bombs exploded with a yield of 15 and 20 kilotons of TNT respectively in contrast the first test of a hydrogen bomb in the United States happened in November 1952 which yielded an explosion of 10,000 kilotons of TNT and by 1954 the United States detonated a bomb in nuclear test Castle Bravo which had a yield of 15 megatons of TNT 2.5 times more than the predicted 6.0 megatons which was the result of using lithium deuteride resulting in a tritium bonus where cascading neutrons transformed it into tritium and helium and tritium causes extremely energetic fusion at 6:45 a.m. local time on March 1st 1954 the device was detonated and many observers knew something had gone spectacularly wrong in the first seconds the flash from the bomb was so great that men saw their bones appear as shadows through their flesh and streams of light shone through the smallest cracks and pinholes and secure doors and hatches more than 30 miles away aboard Navy ships sailors said the heat was like having a blowtorch aimed at their bodies the shock wave was incredible almost knocking observation aircraft from the sky and then there was the fireball stretching for miles in diameter and hotter than the surface of the Sun it was the biggest explosion in history at the time but later the Soviet Union would drop something much bigger metal storm if a name ever fit a weapon perfectly then it would be the metal storm this thing is an Australian made u.s. funded weapon and has 36 barrels put together in a box configuration that can reportedly fire 1.6 two million rounds per minute and fires 180 rounds in a 0.01 second burst and at its peak it can send a wall of 24,000 9-millimeter rounds moving at Mach 5 the fastest mechanical weapons system can only spit out around 6,000 rounds per minute but the Metal Storm ammunition cartridge is special and has no shell casing and no primer in fact the gun itself has no trigger hammer or breech block the craziest thing is that the only moving part is the bullets which are stacked up nose-to-tail in each barrel and are fired electronically one at a time from front to rear although it's really insane the cost and the weight not to mention the set-up time for single-use keep the application of this weapon very circumstantial like when you need to shoot something 1 million times in just 60 seconds plague bomb located in Harbin China unit 731 was created with legitimate intentions by the Japanese government to promote public health and conduct research that would benefit Japanese soldiers including how long someone could survive hunger thirst and certain diseases but as the war went on the Japanese turned to using prisoners of war as test subjects and at least 250,000 people perished at the hands of experimentation the most terrible things you can imagine were done here so terrible we can't speak about them on this video but one of the things they tested was releasing rats infected with bubonic plague with the intention of infecting the prisoners so they could be studied this led to the plague bomb and in China's eastern province of Xinjiang and central Hunan Province from 1940 to 1942 rats were air-dropped and people who lived in these areas describes how people dropped like flies in hours or days their bodies swollen and black luckily for the United States the Japanese surrender on September 2 1945 stopped a plan for kamikaze pilots to attack San Diego with planes filled with plague infected fleas & Seek three laser weapon system thanks to some early science-fiction stories laser weapons have always fascinated many people for a while many people thought such weapons would be impossible to create or would be powerful enough to do serious damage so that it could be used in warfare but the future has arrived the antique three laser weapon system or more easily called the X and one laws is a directed-energy laser weapon developed by the United States Navy the first prototype was installed on the USS Ponce for testing in 2014 where it worked perfectly against low-end threats and took out a UAV and a simulated small boat attacker laws uses an infrared beam with a solid-state laser array which can be tuned to destroy a target using 30,000 watts of power to fry sensors burn out motors or detonate explosive materials such as rockets or bombs mounted on war planes or helicopters neutron bomb another weapon sounding like it's right out of a science fiction novel is the neutron bomb it's also called an enhanced radiation warhead and is a specialized nuclear weapon that doesn't produce as large a blast as a conventional nuclear warhead and instead releases large amounts of lethal radiation it's actually a small thermonuclear bomb with a few kilograms of plutonium or uranium ignited by a conventional explosive which creates a fission trigger to ignite a fusion explosion in a capsule containing several grams of deuterium tritium still with us good this bomb might have only a 1 kiloton yield but in a 1.2 mile radius the fusion reaction would throw off a powerful wave of neutron and gamma radiation penetrating through armor several feet of earth and through living tissue electromagnetic railgun a theoretical dream for ages the railgun is unlike any other weapon used in warfare it's faster cheaper and more lethal than a conventional type of gun or cannon conventional guns or cannons use an explosive propellant to send a projectile and its target but the railgun uses a heavy solid slug that relies on its mass and velocity to do heavy damage in a railgun the two rails act like wires with a magnetic field circulating around each rail it takes two minutes to charge the weapon and only a fraction of a second to fire upon impact the slug projectile super heats which result in a hypersonic sphere of slag capable of penetrating armor melting steel and burning everything else in its path such a round could be designed to fragment before impact showering its target with high-velocity molten metal compared with missiles that can cost from $500,000 to 1.5 million dollars each the railgun offers a much more economical means of engaging the enemy project for this project has been looked at for many years and the interesting thing is that the US military has looked at it again as recently as 2017 also called rods from God project Thor was supposed to be some kind of satellite or launcher vehicle that would be launched into orbit with 20 foot long by 1 foot diameter tungsten rods it would then move over its intended target and launched its projectiles using kinetic energy the tungsten rods could end up traveling at over Mach 10 with an explosive impact of 11.5 tons of TNT it is said that the US has the technology to deploy this weapon at will but the biggest drawback is the cost and also the concern that non tungsten components of the projectile would melt if exceeded Mach 10 whatever the case is project Thor would certainly be a terrifying weapon that concludes our list of 10 insane military technologies we hope you enjoyed the video and want to know which one of these was your favorite let us know in the comments and if you liked the video then don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications so you'll be the first to know when a new video arrives thanks for watching and we'll see you next time

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Length: 13min 8sec (788 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 15 2020

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[u/theonlydiego1]

I was expecting a Neanderthal with a spear ngl.