Defence-Technology Fantasy

[A chauhan]

What are your dream weapons, dream technologies for defence/attack roles, as this thread is related to fantasy you may post any of your dreams here no limitations to technology fantasies.Lol please don't bring logic here! use your imagination and creativity !

My fantasies as starters :-

1.Air to Air EMP Missile :

Range: 150 kms
Speed: 4Mach+
Effect Range: 20 kms(Diameter)

Description: A missile which will chase the target at 4Mach+ speed and when at 2/3 kms it will release Electro magnetic pulse which will destroy all the electronic instruments of the enemy aircraft within the range of 20 kms.

2.Air to Air EMP Missile :

Range: 500kms
Speed: 4mach+
Effect Range: 20 Kms(Diameter)

Description: A missile built for the destruction of ground electronic units as well as air radars and other units.Whichever electronic equipment comes under its 20 kms range gets fried.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

 

[A chauhan]

 

[balai_c]

My dream and fantasy would revolve around a miniature thermonuclear reactor, not a fission reactor prevalent today. We have made indeed made advancement in explosives, propellants , and last but not least- communication system(especially the digital net connected C4ISR), that have made real time near instantaneous connectivity possible today. But speed of transportation is one area where where modern technology is nearly. Today's cars use the same internal combustion technology invented more than a century ago. New technology like electric cars merely convert the stored energy to mechanical power through a system of gears trains, drive trains, and associated mechanical parts. But the source of energy is still basically fossil fuel.

The greatly promising aspect about a compact thermonuclear reactor, unlike a contemporary fission reactor is:

(1) They practically leave no waste product, so no problem of radioactive waste disposal and dumping grounds.

(2) They, once started a practically self-sustaining ,leaving no need for moderators or control rods, as long as the rate of reaction is moderate (like any star like our sun , controlled by no one, still doing fine).

Imagine the future when thousand of these devices power our homes, aircrafts, interstellar crafts needing fuel change once in 100 years!

Some current works on thermonuclear reactors:

Tokamak

A tokamak is a device using a magnetic field to confine a plasma in the shape of a torus. Achieving a stable plasma equilibrium requires magnetic field lines that move around the torus in a helical shape. Such a helical field can be generated by adding a toroidal field (traveling around the torus in circles) and a poloidal field (traveling in circles orthogonal to the toroidal field). In a tokamak, the toroidal field is produced by electromagnets that surround the torus, and the poloidal field is the result of a toroidal electric current that flows inside the plasma. This current is induced inside the plasma with a second set of electromagnets.

The tokamak is one of several types of magnetic confinement devices, and is one of the most-researched candidates for producing controlled thermonuclear fusion power. Magnetic fields are used for confinement since no solid material could withstand the extremely high temperature of the plasma. An alternative to the tokamak is the stellarator.

Tokamaks were invented in the 1950s by Soviet physicists Igor Tamm and Andrei Sakharov, inspired by an original idea of Oleg Lavrentiev.[1]

The word tokamak is a transliteration of the Russian word токамак, an acronym of either "тороидальная камера с магнитными катушками" (toroidal'naya kamera s magnitnymi katushkami)—toroidal chamber with magnetic coils, or "тороидальная камера с аксиальным магнитным полем" (toroidal'naya kamera s aksial'nym magnitnym polem)—toroidal chamber with axial

Although nuclear fusion research began soon after World War II, the programs in various countries were each initially classified as secret. It was not until after the 1955 United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Geneva that programs were declassified and international scientific collaboration could take place.

Experimental research of tokamak systems started in 1956 in Kurchatov Institute, Moscow by a group of Soviet scientists led by Lev Artsimovich. The group constructed the first tokamaks, the most successful being T-3 and its larger version T-4. T-4 was tested in 1968 in Novosibirsk, conducting the first ever quasistationary thermonuclear fusion reaction.[3]

In 1968, at the third IAEA International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research at Novosibirsk, Soviet scientists announced that they had achieved electron temperatures of over 1000 eV in a tokamak device. British and American scientists met this news with skepticism, since they were far from reaching that benchmark; they remained suspicious until laser scattering tests confirmed the findings a few years later.

ITER-International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor

TER (originally an acronym of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering project, which is currently building the world's largest and most advanced experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor at the Cadarache facility in the south of France.[1] The ITER project aims to make the long-awaited transition from experimental studies of plasma physics to full-scale electricity-producing fusion power plants. The project is funded and run by seven member entities — the European Union (EU), India, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea and the United States. The EU, as host party for the ITER complex, is contributing 45% of the cost, with the other six parties contributing 9% each.[2][3][4]

The ITER fusion reactor itself has been designed to produce 500 megawatts of output power for 50 megawatts of input power, or ten times the amount of energy put in.[5] The machine is expected to demonstrate the principle of producing more energy from the fusion process than is used to initiate it, something that has not yet been achieved with previous fusion reactors. Construction of the facility began in 2007, and the first plasma is expected to be produced in 2019.[6] When ITER becomes operational, it will become the largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment in use, surpassing the Joint European Torus. The first commercial demonstration fusion power plant, named DEMO, is proposed to follow on from the ITER project to bring fusion energy to the commercial market.[7]

Organization history

ITER began in 1985 as a collaboration between the then Soviet Union, the European Union (through EURATOM), the USA, and Japan. Conceptual and engineering design phases carried out under the auspices of the IAEA led to an acceptable, detailed design in 2001, underpinned by US$650 million worth of research and development by the "ITER Parties" to establish its practical feasibility. These parties (with the Russian Federation replacing the Soviet Union and with the USA opting out of the project in 1999 and returning in 2003) were joined in negotiations on the future construction, operation and decommissioning of ITER by Canada (who then terminated their participation at the end of 2003), the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Korea. India officially became part of ITER on 6 December 2005.

On 28 June 2005, it was officially announced that ITER will be built in the European Union in Southern France. The negotiations that led to the decision ended in a compromise between the EU and Japan, in that Japan was promised 20% of the research staff on the French location of ITER, as well as the head of the administrative body of ITER. In addition, another research facility for the project will be built in Japan, and the European Union has agreed to contribute about 50% of the costs of this institution.[16]

On 21 November 2006, an international consortium signed a formal agreement to build the reactor.[17] On 24 September 2007, the People's Republic of China became the seventh party to deposit the ITER Agreement to the IAEA. Finally, on 24 October 2007, the ITER Agreement entered into force and the ITER Organization legally came into existence.