Since ancient times, war is something that always terrorized human civilization. Therefore, as the development of technology, many countries continue to compete to make the most sophisticated weapons in the world. It, too, really been able to take place with the emergence of a variety of deadly weapons that are still used today. Here are the 10 most lethal weapons still used today's modern era.
10. Barbed Wire
Deadly weapon shaped barbed wire was first discovered by a cattle rancher named Joseph Glidden in 1874. Initially barbed wire used by Glidden to keep the cow to keep it out of the cage. But in the eyes of others, the barbed wire is considered to have more potential on the battlefield. Barbed wire is starting to change the role as a tool to protect points of strategic importance. In today's world the use of barbed wire is more frequent and have a more severe impact of World War I.
The number of victims killed by a barbed wire is still not known with certainty. However, several reports on the battlefield said that some military members caught in one of these deadly weapons. Nowadays the use of barbed wire is not only used by the military members, even normal people also use barbed wire to make the house look more secure.
9. Hollow Point Bullet
Hollow Point Bullet is one of the most controversial lethal weapons in the world. As the name implies, this bullet has a hollow concave shape end, it's what makes this different bullets with bullets most of which have a rounded tip and tapered. With the bullet shape is concave, making this bullet will cause widespread damage. This is because at the time of these bullets hit the target, the tip of this bullet will spread, causing damage suffered by the target also widened. It is different from ordinary bullets designed to penetrate the target's body, Hollow Point Bullet is intended to produce an effect on the damaged area to be targeted.
8. HEAT Ammunition
High Explosive Anti Tank Ammo or often abbreviated to HEAT has become one of the most lethal weapons have been used since World War II. This deadly weapon discovered by accident while testing explosives on a concrete wall and a steel plate. To penetrate armor targets, HEAT Ammunition did not use the energy weapon but rather rely on a unique form. At the end of the cone-shaped shells placed a diamond. It aims to create a more focused blast effect.
Making a deadly weapon is somewhat less expensive but it remains a deadly weapon still feared. Some of the advantages possessed by these weapons is to have heat flow, can take kecetapan 25x faster than the speed of sound, can melt the tank so as to make the molten metal that can injure people inside the tank.
7. Chlorine Gas
War of the use of chemicals has long been prohibited from considering the deadly effect resulting in World War II. By the time World War II was the right time for the country to use chemical weapons. Was first used by Nazi soldiers during the use of chemical weapons such as poison gas to kill a number of people in Japan Holocaust.Ketika war against the people of China, Japan also uses chlorine gas is the same one used by Nazi soldiers.
According to some recent reports say that one part of the conflict regions of Syria using deadly chlorine gas weapon to attack several villages. Chlorine gas including deadly dangerous gases that have chemical compounds acids that attack human respiratory apparatus. Resulting in people who inhale the gas becomes limp and later died.
6. Depleted Uranium
Depleted Uranium or DU is a deadly weapon made from residual waste from the manufacture of nuclear and used as fuel for nuclear reactors. Depleted Uranium has a density of 68% at its center, much denser than the tip. Ordinary civilians using Depleted Uranium as a protector of radiography camera, cut the weight of the aircraft, made as an artificial tooth material, and as a sample calorimeter for particle physics.
But actually Depleted Uranium is not for the things that have been mentioned above. Depleted Uranium serves as a raw material in weapons factories. Due to have a high population density, the Depleted Uranium become the ideal weapon like a bullet penetrating armor, protective material tanks, as well as armor material.
5. Napalm Bomb
One of the world's deadliest weapon is a bomb that has been made in such a way, mixed with fuel gel. This gel has a high level of consistency that makes it stick to the target. Created using a combination of gasoline or kerosene and wrapped in a thin aluminum, it can burn napalm bomb targets with temperatures that can reach over 5,000 degrees Celsius.
These lethal weapons were first used by the US Air Force to attack the Japanese during World War II. Kill as many as 100,000 people and leveled the land area of 24,000 square kilometers. Napalm is sanagt harmful to the skin because it can result in the level of fuel level 2 or 3 and can produce toxic gases dangerous to humans by inhalation.
4. White Phosphorus
In Indonesian which means White phosphorus, a lethal chemical weapons are frequently used in the war as a cover of artillery shells and a grenade so that the enemy can not see the attack. Aside from being a weapon, sometimes white phosphorus can also be used as a marker of where the next target to be attacked.
White smoke produced is the result of phosphorus pentoxide contact with moisture. When that happens, phosphorous acid was formed. The white phosphorus will continue to burn anything until around the oxygen depleted or destroyed surrounding objects. These lethal weapons also have a fatal impact when inhaled by humans, the white phosphorus can also thaw beings to live up to the bone. The use of this deadly weapon is forbidden to start since passed regulations in 1980.
3. Cluster Bomb
Among all the most lethal weapons exist, cluster bombs could have been ranked 1st most dangerous lethal weapons in the world. Dropped from a plane, first fruit cluster bombs will turn into hundreds or even thousands of small bombs capable of destroying an area of 3x the football pitch. But whether on purpose or not, about 30% or more of this bomb did not explode and just lay on the ground for many years to wait until someone was unlucky that stepped on the bomb.
This deadly bomb was not designed to destroy buildings, but rather to destroy runways, roads or convoy disperse the enemy forces. Due to the effects of the deadly cluster bombs, many countries are still suffering losses over a long period despite conflicts between states has been completed.
2. Nuclear Bomb
Most lethal weapons ever created by man is a nuclear bomb. So turn it off, is said to be able to eliminate nuclear mankind on earth when the Cold War. Fortunately for us because it never happened, but mankind is still not 100% safe because there are still some countries that have a nuclear bomb that is ready to be launched. There are at least 16,000 nuclear bombs which 90% is owned by Russia and the United States. In addition to two of the country, there are still some other countries who reportedly also has a nuclear bomb. The countries include France, China, Britain, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea.
Although the nuclear bombs are not used anymore since World War II America and Japan, some countries have tried to do just how lethal weapons at their disposal. India and Pakistan trialed in 1998, North Korea in 2006. In 2009 and 2013 North Korea conducted a nuclear test in which the nuclear test had the power to 50x more powerful than the nuclear test conducted first.
1. MIRVs
Perhaps for many people argue that there is no weapon more lethal than a nuclear bomb. But wait until the nuclear combined with cluster bombs. The combination of a nuclear bomb by a cluster bomb is the deadliest weapon on earth is named with MIRV (Multiple Indepedently-targetable Reentry Vehicle). If MIRV dropped from the sky, this deadly weapon will break into dozens of long-distance bombs that will fall to the ground causing damage that can not be imagined.
The technology used to make these lethal weapons have long been found since the early 1960s and has become one of the causes of the increased use of nuclear bombs during the Cold War. These weapons are used to destroy missiles and airstrip. Due to these weapons are still included in nuclear weapons, as a result of the use of lethal weapons is far too great.
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