As long as this world exists, so much time a person is busy creating an increasingly sophisticated way of destroying and destroying life around him. And, it seems, no force can stop this arms race.
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The most destructive weapon, apart from the nuclear one, is the Smerch multiple launch rocket system, developed back in the Soviet Union in 1987. It will take a little more than 30 seconds to let in all 12 barrels. Covering a distance of 90 km, its 300 mm shells are capable of destroying all life on an area of 67 hectares. Some modern improvements have increased its destructive power and accuracy. The shells are equipped with a flight control system. They successfully oppose infantry and armored vehicles, and can spread anti-tank mines, creating a minefield under the enemy’s nose. So far, no such destructive power.
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In the Soviet Union, a rocket was also constructed that has no analogues in the world today. According to secret documents, she passed as the Voivode, later the Americans dubbed her "Satan." The SS-18 missile is the fourth generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles. It weighs 211 tons and can carry 10 detachable warheads (total weight up to 10 tons), at a distance of 16, 000 km. Its military equipment allows you to break through any possible obstacles on the way, even through a thermonuclear explosion of an atomic bomb or electromagnetic impulses that damage electronics. "Satan" (an unrivaled anti-ballistic missile system) and its latest modifications, is designed mainly for retaliatory "deep" strike.
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The most powerful non-nuclear weapons recognized as volumetric explosion ammunition (BOV). When an explosive device is activated, a cloud of atomized chemical compounds detonates when combined with oxygen. At the same time, a large amount of thermal energy is released in the epicenter of the explosion without the formation of a funnel, and a zone of low pressure is created outside it, due to the strong rarefaction of air (up to 0.15 atmospheres). Everything around seems to fall into the stream of a huge vacuum cleaner, it is impossible to sit out in leaky shelters, since the blast wave "penetrates" everywhere, and does not go around obstacles. The blow "spreads" in the horizontal plane with such force that it can explode not only mines, but also the human lungs.
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Under development is an equally powerful weapon of mass destruction called "Rods of God." The kinetic energy of six-meter tungsten rods released from a satellite and reaching a maximum speed at the earth's surface equal to 12 km / s acts as a destructive force. Destructive power is identical to a nuclear explosion.
