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Weapons under research or planned for development and use in the future. To be classified as a future weapon, a weapon must be the subject of actual research by military or industrial entities, or be considered a viable technology for future development. For weapons of purely theoretical or science-fiction basis, see Category:Fictional weapons ...
A U.S. Army graphic detailing the competitors for the program as of December 2020. The Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) program is a United States military program created in 2017 by the U.S. Army to replace the 5.56mm M4 carbine, the M249 SAW light machine gun, and the 7.62mm M240 machine gun, with a common system of 6.8mm cartridges and to develop small arms fire-control systems for the ...
In some cases, weapons first introduced in science fiction have been made a reality; other science-fiction weapons remain purely fictional, and are often beyond the realms of known physical possibility. At its most prosaic, science fiction features an endless variety of sidearms—mostly variations on real weapons such as guns and swords.
The U.S. Navy pulled the plug, for now, on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity. The Navy spent more than a decade developing the ...
The weapon overall has an extremely compact profile—it is the most compact fixed-stock submachine gun to be made. [10] The standard version of the weapon has an overall length of 500 mm (20 in), a height of 210 mm (8.3 in), and a width of 55 mm (2.2 in). [7] The P90 is fully ambidextrous
Militaries like the US, China, and Russia are building robot dogs to employ in security and combat operations. Some of these remote-controlled canines feature guns, rocket launchers, and flamethrowers
The Heckler & Koch G11 is a non-production prototype assault rifle developed from the late 1960s to the 1980s by Gesellschaft für Hülsenlose Gewehrsysteme (GSHG) (German for "Association for Caseless Rifle Systems"), a conglomeration of companies headed by firearm manufacturer Heckler & Koch (mechanical engineering and weapon design), Dynamit Nobel (propellant composition and projectile ...
The True Velocity RM338, [1] formerly Lightweight Medium Machine Gun (LWMMG), is a prototype machine gun being developed first by General Dynamics, later by LoneStar Future Weapons, [2] now by True Velocity. [3]