http://www.futurefirepower.com The Newest Military Weapon Systems Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:23:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.futurefirepower.com/small-diameter-bomb-gbu-39 http://www.futurefirepower.com/small-diameter-bomb-gbu-39#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:24:23 +0000 Andrew http://www.futurefirepower.com/?p=418   The GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb – the future of ultra-surgical air strikes. Since the days of the first Gulf War, when it became clear to the world that precision air strikes would be the “go to” option for the opening rounds of nearly any theater scale military operations, the technology of ...]]> http://www.futurefirepower.com/small-diameter-bomb-gbu-39/feed 2 http://www.futurefirepower.com/father-of-all-bombs http://www.futurefirepower.com/father-of-all-bombs#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:08:47 +0000 Capt. http://www.futurefirepower.com/father-of-all-bombs If you are a regular here at Future Firepower then I am sure you have heard of the MOAB or Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, coined the Mother of All Bombs. The MOAB is an eight ton non-nuclear weapon with a 450 foot blast radius. What you ...]]> http://www.futurefirepower.com/father-of-all-bombs/feed 5 http://www.futurefirepower.com/thermobaric-weapon-explosive-fuel-air-bombs http://www.futurefirepower.com/thermobaric-weapon-explosive-fuel-air-bombs#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:21:24 +0000 Andrew http://www.futurefirepower.com/thermobaric-fuel-air-weapon-vacuum-bomb Click on the Thumbnail to view the animation. There are many different types of Thermobaric weapons, it is the destructive concept that renders Thermobarics different than conventional high explosives.  Rather than a simple bomb with high explosives in the warhead, thermobaric weapons, or fuel-air bombs, are predominantly filled with either an ...]]> http://www.futurefirepower.com/thermobaric-weapon-explosive-fuel-air-bombs/feed 0 http://www.futurefirepower.com/al-qaeda-training-not-anymore http://www.futurefirepower.com/al-qaeda-training-not-anymore#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:59:56 +0000 Capt. http://www.futurefirepower.com/al-qaeda-training-not-anymore The US air-force put a stop to Al qaeda’s heavy weapons training real quick in the video below. Several insurgents were killed in this air attack during a training mission in May of 2007. Anti aircraft fire and other munitions can be seen during the surveillance of the ...]]> http://www.futurefirepower.com/al-qaeda-training-not-anymore/feed 0 http://www.futurefirepower.com/slow-motion-mlrs-video http://www.futurefirepower.com/slow-motion-mlrs-video#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:46:05 +0000 Capt. http://www.futurefirepower.com/slow-motion-mlrs-video The video below shows the multiple Launch Rocket System developed by Lockheed Martin in action in slow motion. The Guided MLRS (GMLRS) rocket is being developed under an international cooperative program with the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France and Germany. GMLRS will have a global positioning system aided inertial ...]]> http://www.futurefirepower.com/slow-motion-mlrs-video/feed 0 http://www.futurefirepower.com/hunter-uav-airstrike-viper-air-attack-on-vehicle http://www.futurefirepower.com/hunter-uav-airstrike-viper-air-attack-on-vehicle#comments Thu, 31 May 2007 06:31:26 +0000 Capt. http://www.futurefirepower.com/hunter-uav-airstrike-viper-air-attack-on-vehicle Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) The Viper is a standoff munition guided by GPS and laser-guidance. The Viper is primarily used in missions that require a flexible angle of attack, either steep or shallow. The weapon is produced by Northrop Grumann’s Land Combat Systems Facility in Alabama. This particular Viper ...]]> http://www.futurefirepower.com/hunter-uav-airstrike-viper-air-attack-on-vehicle/feed 0 http://www.futurefirepower.com/x-51-hypersonic-cruise-missile-fastest-cruise-missile http://www.futurefirepower.com/x-51-hypersonic-cruise-missile-fastest-cruise-missile#comments Thu, 17 May 2007 04:06:27 +0000 Capt. http://www.futurefirepower.com/x-51-hypersonic-cruise-missile-fastest-cruise-missile Imagine having the ability to strike anywhere in the world within one hour. The X-51 is an amazing hypersonic cruise missile that travels 600 miles in just ten minutes (approximately 3600 MPH or Mach 5). Compared with the Tomahawk Missile which travels at a mere 550 MPH, the X51 ...]]> http://www.futurefirepower.com/x-51-hypersonic-cruise-missile-fastest-cruise-missile/feed 76 http://www.futurefirepower.com/excalibur-smart-artillery-round-fire-and-forget http://www.futurefirepower.com/excalibur-smart-artillery-round-fire-and-forget#comments Tue, 01 May 2007 03:16:45 +0000 Capt. http://www.futurefirepower.com/2007/04/01/excalibur-smart-artillery-round-fire-and-forget/ Manufacturers: Raytheon [NYSE: RTN] and General Dynamics [NYSE: GD] The Excalibur is the newest development in Military artillery technology and precision guided munitions. Also known as the M982 ER DPICM (Extended Range Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions) Projectile, the Excallibur is a smart artillery round that has an integrated ...]]> http://www.futurefirepower.com/excalibur-smart-artillery-round-fire-and-forget/feed 3 http://www.futurefirepower.com/the-sensor-fused-weapon-cbu-97-cluster-bomb-video http://www.futurefirepower.com/the-sensor-fused-weapon-cbu-97-cluster-bomb-video#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:45:25 +0000 Andrew http://www.futurefirepower.com/military-weapons-vehicles/the-sensor-fused-weapon-cbu-97-cluster-bomb-video/ Manufacturer: Textron Inc. [NYSE: TXT] The CBU-97 sensor-fuzed weapon is an extremely potent anti-armor cluster bomb. It combines so many different technologies of lethality and has so many moving parts for a bomb that initial observes questioned whether it would even work. Basically, the CBU-97 is dropped over a column of ...]]> http://www.futurefirepower.com/the-sensor-fused-weapon-cbu-97-cluster-bomb-video/feed 6 http://www.futurefirepower.com/airstrike-video-insurgents-in-iraq-firing-aa-machine-gun http://www.futurefirepower.com/airstrike-video-insurgents-in-iraq-firing-aa-machine-gun#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:22:50 +0000 Andrew http://www.futurefirepower.com/military-weapons-vehicles/airstrike-video-insurgents-in-iraq-firing-aa-machine-gun/ This video depicts the teamwork capability of the US military, coupled with today’s advanced weapon technology. The video is filmed by a Predator UAV on surveillance patrol in Iraq. The Predator observes insurgents firing a AA gun (anti-aircraft artillery) mounted on the rear of a pick-up truck. ...]]> http://www.futurefirepower.com/airstrike-video-insurgents-in-iraq-firing-aa-machine-gun/feed 1 http://www.futurefirepower.com/us-very-concerned-as-iran-nuke-program-goes-industrial http://www.futurefirepower.com/us-very-concerned-as-iran-nuke-program-goes-industrial#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:28:08 +0000 Capt. http://www.futurefirepower.com/military-weapons-vehicles/weapons/us-very-concerned-as-iran-nuke-program-goes-industrial/ The White House says it is “very concerned” about Iran’s claim to be producing enriched uranium on an industrial scale, and has warned against “unacceptable” limits on the country’s cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog. “We are very concerned about Iran’s announcement that they entered an ‘industrial stage’ of nuclear ...]]> http://www.futurefirepower.com/us-very-concerned-as-iran-nuke-program-goes-industrial/feed 4 http://www.futurefirepower.com/f-16-close-air-support-attack-on-insurgents-airstrike-video-from-fallujah-iraq http://www.futurefirepower.com/f-16-close-air-support-attack-on-insurgents-airstrike-video-from-fallujah-iraq#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:29:37 +0000 Andrew http://www.futurefirepower.com/military-weapons-vehicles/f-16-close-air-support-attack-on-insurgents-airstrike-video-from-fallujah-iraq/ This video depicts the final moments of around 30 insurgents during the battle of Fallujah. In Fallujah, US troops saw some of the most intense urban combat of the Iraq War. During intense fighting, small groups of soldiers would be out-manned by the insurgents, but it usually didn’t matter. As ...]]> http://www.futurefirepower.com/f-16-close-air-support-attack-on-insurgents-airstrike-video-from-fallujah-iraq/feed 7 http://www.futurefirepower.com/moab-massive-ordinace-air-blast-bomb http://www.futurefirepower.com/moab-massive-ordinace-air-blast-bomb#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:03:25 +0000 Andrew http://www.futurefirepower.com/2007/04/01/moab-massive-ordinace-air-blast-bomb/ Coined the “Mother of All Bombs” for its massive size and blast radius (400ft), the MOAB truly is the Future of Military Firepower. The MOAB is a massive 21,000 pounds and contains over 9 tons of H-6 explosive. The MOAB is so large that it must be ...]]> http://www.futurefirepower.com/moab-massive-ordinace-air-blast-bomb/feed 5