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https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/01/missile-defenses-and-weapon-upgrade-for-us-navy-army-and-marines.html
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If we put one of them thar little nuke generators on one of those ships, it should be able to power the railgun.

Then many cheap shells fired "zap zap fast," compared to a few expenso missiles flying at about the same speed - or slower.
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Excellent Doc. Let's obsolete their armaments!
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Summon forth the Imperial Ramjet Marines
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Spud,

Most of us are aware of the Armies "Super Soldier" program - https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/841982/SUPER-SOLDIER-DARPA-US-army

Nothing surprising in that article to many of us who follow tech as much as most KAI, and now EV members do.

But while the video-game and movie version of a "techno-knight" - like the one in your pic - striding through a landscape dealing high tech doom from various weapons systems is an ongoing interesting idea, its such an expensive and fairly easy target to spot that it begs the question - why not make a cheaper, more reliable version instead of just copying the first semi-auto carbine with a large magazine that the Nazi's had at great expense and complexity.

Thus the Soviets met a given, fairly small number of the complex expensive German version with zillions of cheap AK 47's that a illiterate peasant can operate and keep in shape. For every Nazi squad with a soldier who had theirs, every opposing Soviet squad had one or more.

And many Nazi squads without any still met Soviet squads with AK's.

So too here - we go with an elaboration of the extent "super soldier" route. Churn out as many as we can regular troops who have much better abilities, intelligence and comm skills.

The current goal alone, adding to the already growing AI equipped drone weapons, will be an awesome improvement.
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WW2 Sturmgewehr also known as the MP-44

The AK47 was built in 47
The Russia weapons were the P-41, and more popularly the PPsH 43 or Peppa-shaw 43
Not to be confused with the UK kids cartoon Pepper Pig.

Gawd I am a gun snob!
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Gun snob? Not me, pard. Gun knowledge in the US is a widely admired thing - certainly by me.

Did your post mean mine was wrong, or did it simply expand on it?

I was writing what I remembered, and my memory is far from my best or most reliable feature.
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If I recall mil history and I may not, the AK was an invention or 1947. Probably, the designer, Kalshnikov, was working on it during the war years, and never had the time to get it into being manufactured.The Germans had the storm-rifle in 1944, another wunder weapon.

The UK imperial museum has most of the wunder weapons in its collection, and the Germans were great at cooking up concepts that in the field we impractical. Sound cannons to be used to drop planes out of the sky,20mm one-man, ant-aircraft guns, thorium fuel for U-boats. The Japs had some of this also, as the Germans sent in their prototypes for jets, rocket planes, fission bombs, and such.

You likely know about the Japanese submarine, planet carrier that was built to drop bio-weapons on the US-Canada, west coast.
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Thanks for the update on the AK.

I mistakenly thought that Kalishnikov did that during WW II.

I know the Japanese had big carrier sub versions, with a hanger for a seaplane added to the sail-superstructure.

The insanity of planning dropping bioweapons with the seaplane, of poking us more than they did at Pearl Harbor at a point where absolutely all of them know it was a lost cause!

As far as the best subs, I think that was the Germans. One of the alternative history variants on WW II has the German sub fleet fleshed out as much as was planned before "military genius" Adolf decided to join Stalin in carving up Poland and pulled waffling Britain into war.

They had anechoic rubber skin versions planned - just as we do now. They also built a few big cargo supply subs before the whole fleet got hunted back into being sunk or hiding in some port.

They came so close to choking off GB with that sub fleet, before "ASDIC" - a Brit invention, renamed SONAR by us, started the death march of the "Pig Boats."
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