by Rick Badman

Created on: April 18, 2009

I have been designing military hardware since Nixon was President. I submitted to him a satellite defense system that used charged particle beams to destroy missiles and warheads in 1970. I even did a short series on my cable TV program during the mid-80's that dealt with the military in the future. Whether my ideas are correct are yet to be determined.

For the Army there are my android plans I submitted to the Pentagon in 1974 and my tank which uses an electromagnetic discharge main gun I brought the plans for to the Aberdeen testing grounds in 1997. The android had a head brain for gathering information and a body brain to run the functions of the synthetic human. The last drawings I submitted were for movable lips and a movable tongue. With voice sampling, and android may sound like a human when it speaks.

The tank was nuclear powered and used particle beam weapons instead of machine guns and a 120 mm main gun that used a bank of capacitors and an electromagnetic discharge unit to repel the steel shell that is magnetized in the breach at upwards to 2 miles per second. The range would be greater than many missiles and when the shell which would be melting from air friction hits the target, standard plate armor would be penetrated. Also, the projectile wouldn't need propellant since electromagnetic energy is used.

For the Navy I have designed something I call a multi-ship. It is a submarine that can carry aircraft and fire large deck guns like a destroyer. It can also extend hydrofoil wings so that it can skim along the surface at high speed. It would be around the same size as our largest subs and carry at least half a dozen planes. The largest cannon might be an electromagnetic discharge gun that fires a shell that is upwards to 12 inches wide at over 2 miles per second. Since the planes would use my field compression engine that doesn't need air, they could be launched from below the surface. If there is trouble anywhere in the world, a few multi-ships could go in first.

For the Marines I designed the motorized fighting suit and my multi-mode rifle. The fighting suit would allow a Marine the ability to run at over 30 mph and be protected almost like a tank thanks to the ultra-stressed material and force field. The multi-mode rifle could fire a charged particle beam, an energy projectile, or a steel projectile at upwards to 10 miles per second. With linear induction loading, a multi-mode could fire 30,000 rounds a minute. If a "monster" clip is used that might

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