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The Taser Shockwave

泰瑟冲击波

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Manufactured by:

制造商：泰瑟

Release date:

发行年份：2008年

The Taser model will electrocute a crowd of people at the touch of a button.

泰瑟模型将只需按一个按钮就可以电死一群人。

Creating an "area of denial" the Taser can be stacked up and strung together almost indefinitely. It will also mount to any vehicle.

在制造区域封锁时，可以将泰瑟重叠并且几乎可以无限地串起来。这样将等同于任一交通工具。

The Shockwave has an effective distance of 25 feet and can be seen in action on this company video at Gizmodo.

The Black Knight

黑骑士

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Manufactured by:

制造商：BAE系统（BA.L）

Release date:

生产日期：2008年

The Black Knight is a combination remote controlled tank and forward scouting vehicle, designed for situations too risky for manned vehicles.

黑骑士是一种综合性远程控制坦克，可以进行前方侦察。当人为驾驶太冒险时，可以采用它。

To keep costs low, the Black Knight shares a weapons systems and engine parts with the manned Bradley Fighting vehicle. Including a 30mm cannon, machine gun and 300 horsepower engine.

为了使成本较低，黑骑士采用的系统和发动机均与人为驾驶的布莱德雷战车相似。它有30mm口径的加农，机关枪和300马力的发动机。

The vehicle is also fitted with autonomous navigation software and can design and follow

可安装自动导航软件，无需外来资源即可自主导航。

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/american-battlefield-weapons-2011-4#the-black-knight-5#ixzz1LCrKCTt0

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The Active Denial System

主动拒止系统

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Manufactured by:

制造商：雷声（RTN）

Release date:

发行年份：2008年

Dubbed America's Ray Gun, by 60 Minutes, the Active Denial System is really more a combination radar array and microwave.

被称为美国的射线枪，主动拒止系统更是一个雷达阵和微电波相结合的典型范例。

The ADS shoots a stream of electromagnetic waves, shorter than microwaves, which are instantly absorbed by the top layer of skin.

它可以产生比微波更短的电磁波，此波可立即被皮肤表层吸收。

The pain is so intense, the reaction to run from the beams so overpowering, the military calls it the "Goodbye Weapon."

但疼痛相当剧烈。由于对疼痛的自然反射，人们会暂时失去战斗力，所以被称为“再见武器”。

The ADS has been used domestically, both on test subjects and prison inmates. It was deployed to Afghanistan in 2010, only to be recalled, inexplicably, months later.

在国内，它已经作为了考试科目之一，并且用在了在押犯人的身上 。美国本打算在2010年时在阿富汗使用，但是几个月后就被取消了。

The military claims there are no lingering effects from exposure.

The Laser Avenger

激光复仇者

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Manufactured by:

制造者：波音

Release date:

发行年份：2009年

Only a few centimeters in diameter and invisible to the naked eye, the Avenger's laser is 20 times hotter than an electric stove top and will cut through artillery shells with ease.

直径只有几厘米，甚至连肉眼都难以观测到。其热量比电炉高20倍，能轻易地穿透弹壳。

The Avenger was designed with the hope of effectively detonating the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) that inflict more damage on American forces than any other weapon.

设计制造复仇者是为了有效地引爆临时爆炸装置，这些装置对美国军队的杀伤力最大。

Current disposal methods involve a version of the MAARS robot that insurgents will bomb to take out of action.

现今采用的是一种MAARS机器人操控，如果发现敌军采取行动，那么将爆炸。

The Avenger is also being tested  to take down aerial vehicles.

MAARS Robot (Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System)

MAARS机器人（模式化先进武器机器人系统）

Manufactured by: 

制造商：QinetiQ-QQ

Release date:

发布日期：2009年

The MAARS Robot is a modified remote control, bomb disposal robot.

MAARS机器人是一个可改造的远程控制型的拆弹专家。

Customizable to various needs, the MAARS can be configured with either an MB240 machine gun and 40mm grenade launcher, or a loudspeaker and eye dazzling laser, or bean bag guns, smoke, and pepper spray.

它能够适应于各种环境，既能安装上杀伤力巨大的MB240机枪和40mm口径的手榴弹发射器，也能装上一个扩音器和可致人失明的激光，还能配置发射烟雾弹、催泪弹的装置和电击枪。

To date, no shots have been fired in combat by a remote device like the MAARS.

XM2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifle

XM2010加强版狙击步枪

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Manufactured by:

制造商：雷明顿

Release date:

日期：2010年-2011年

The product of a long string of modifications to the 22 year-old M24 sniper rifle, the XM2010 is designed specifically to be effective in the high altitude long distance fighting in Afghanistan.

XM2010的前身是已有22年历史的M24狙击枪，其主要用于阿富汗战场上高纬度远距离作战中。

To provide quiet, pinpoint accuracy at up to 1200 meters the XM2010 carries more gun powder in the bullets it fires, has a flash suppressor, sound suppressor, and a thermal sleeve to hide the warm barrel from FLIR.

为了在1200米范围内达到轻声和高精准度，XM2010使用的子弹中炮粉更多，配有环火抑制器，消音器和隔热套管来包住前视红外发热枪管。

When U.S. Snipers graduate from the five-week school at Fort Benning, Ga. they are capable of hitting a man-sized target nine out of ten times at 600 meters — over a third of a mile away.

XM25 Individual Airburst Weapon System (IAWS)

XM25单兵空爆武器系统（IAWS）

 

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Manufactured by:

制造者：Keckler&Koch

Release date:

时期：2014年

Dubbed "The Punisher" by American forces in Afghanistan, the XM25 accurately shoots a next-generation, 25mm, grenade up to 500 meters.

在阿富汗作战的美国士兵取名为“惩罚者”——XM25可以精确的射出新一代口径25mm的榴弹、射程达500米远。

But, the distance isn't what impressed soldiers involved in the live trial of the weapon — it wa the grenade programming.

但是，这还不是最吸引人的，而是榴弹程序。

A targets distance is transmitted by a rangefinder in the XM25 to the grenade in the firing chamber. When the grenade leaves the barrel it is spiraling, like a football, and measures the distance it's traveled by the number of spirals it completes.

通过测距仪测定与目标物的距离，然后将其传送给即将出膛的榴弹。当榴弹离开炮管时，它像足球一样在旋转，然后通过统计它完成的旋转数来计算路程。

The detonation can be manually programmed within 10 meters to hit enemy in bunkers or behind barriers.

引爆装置可以被人为地设置成10米内击中沙坑内或壁垒后的敌军。

A platoon leader commented in an Army Times article: "Engagements that typically take 15 to 20 minutes were over in a matter of minutes.”

在陆军时代周刊的一篇文章中，一位排长评论道：“一般需要15到20分钟的交战如今只需几分钟”。

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