Military Technology Research Paper

Military Technology

In today’s world technology affects us in so many aspects of our lives and it’s everywhere. Especially here in the U.S we rely on it to help make America better. Through the years technology has changed the military and security forces like TSA. This new technology can save lives, provide safety and even change warfare as we know it.

Probably the most important thing that these machines can do is save lives. As technology advances we are starting to see more and more unmanned vehicles. Such as bomb disposing robots or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles). UAV’s are capable of carrying out different types of missions without anybody in them. Since they are controlled from a base if the UAV crashes then nobody dies. Another piece is the bomb disposal robot. Bomb robots began being used in the 1970s (Baker 1). Bomb robots can either disarm bombs or rig them to explode (Baker 1). The types of robots and the technology they use has changed greatly. Today some of them have prosthetics that work just like

human limbs (Baker 1) and they cost up to $150,000 dollars per unit (Baker 1). Throughout the years bomb robots have saved a countless number of lives and has changed warfare by making safer to get rid of bombs and that is priceless.
In any country you need security to help stay safe and in airports especially have excellent technology to achieve that. Airports typically use CT scanners and metal detectors. CT scanners just take multiple X-rays and puts them into one picture. But they also take longer so they usually only do that to people who flagged. People who get flagged usually have one tickets (Tyson 1). Metal detectors are one of the most common form of security. If you look you can see them everywhere at concerts, the airport, and even some courts have them. Metal detectors range from just basic hand scanning ones all the way up to X-ray scanners (Rapiscan 1). Metal detectors work by emitting an electromagnetic field with pulses going through. If somebody has some metal in there pocket then that disturbs the field casing a buzzer to go off (Rapiscan 1). Security in a country is one of the most important things. But just as important is the offense.
The military has been using UAVs and are in the process of making a fully operational rail gun.

UAVs have five main uses target, recon, combat, research, and civil use (UAV 1). The first model of railguns is expected to see combat between 2020-2025 (Railguns 1). Railguns in the long term are more cost effective than the weapons we see today because they don’t use gunpowder or explosives (Railguns 1). Railguns can be used in many different ways such as being mounted on a boat or a trailer or can be placed on a building. Railguns even have the capability to fire projectiles at Mach 6 or even Mach 7 which is 6-7 times as fast as the speed of sound (Railguns 1). The way that weapons have changed overtime is just incredible. We go from one-shot muskets up weapons capable of firing hundreds of rounds per minute. Railguns especially are amazing. The way that they are capable of explosive power and destruction without even using

explosives.
It is just awe-inspiring to see how the technology we use today has changed. Through the years technology has changed the military and security forces like TSA. This new technology can save lives, provide safety and even change warfare as we know it. We took a look at some of the technology used and if we back in time to even WWII and said some of the technology we have today people probably look at us like we have two heads. But with the science and technology being created it seems that really anything is possible. It will be interesting to see how the world changes in the next 10 years.