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Many hypothetical doomsday devices are based on salted hydrogen bombs creating large amounts of nuclear fallout.. A doomsday device is a hypothetical construction — usually a weapon or weapons system — which could destroy all life on a planet, particularly Earth, or destroy the planet itself, bringing "doomsday", a term used for the end of planet Earth.
Knock-down test of a 109 mph (175 km/h; 49 m/s) vortex ring gun. The vortex ring gun is an experimental non-lethal weapon for crowd control that uses high-energy vortex rings of gas to knock down people or spray them with marking ink or other chemicals.
True to its name, Chlorophyte has plant-themed properties, and can be used to craft armor and weapons that harness the powers of plants. It can be combined with glowing mushrooms to make Shroomite, a blue fungi-themed version of the same metal used in ranged weapons and armor, or with ectoplasm to create Spectre Bars, a glowing ghost-themed ...
Pages in category "Fictional energy weapons" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. BFG (weapon)
Examples of such weapons include Jules Verne's "fulgurator" and the "glass arrow" of the Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. [1] A classic science-fiction weapon, particularly in British and American science-fiction novels and films, is the raygun. A very early example of a raygun is the Heat-Ray featured in H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (1898).
Popular name of 1.59-inch breech-loading Vickers Q.F. gun, Mk II: QF 2-pounder naval gun Japan: 40 mm anti-aircraft, anti-tank gun WA 021 China: 155 mm towed howitzer Wildcat SPAA Germany: 30 mm SP twin anti-aircraft gun Wirbelwind Nazi Germany: 20 mm SP quad anti-aircraft gun YaG-10 motorized anti-aircraft Soviet Union: 76.2 mm SP anti ...
The MK-77 is the primary incendiary weapon currently in use by the United States military. Instead of the gasoline, polystyrene, and benzene mixture used in napalm bombs, the MK-77 uses kerosene-based fuel with a lower concentration of benzene. The Pentagon has claimed that the MK-77 has less impact on the environment than napalm.
Space Marines were first introduced in War hammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (1987) by Rick Priestley, which was the first edition of the tabletop game.. The book Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned (Rick Priestley and Bryan Ansell, 1990) was the first book from Games Workshop to give a backstory for the Space Marines.