If there is going to be a new battlefield in the near future, it is going to be outer space. Here on earth, we have developed tonnes of weapon systems designed specifically to be lethal under atmospheric conditions and taking into account the gravitational force which cannot be ignored. All the Guns, Aircraft, Missiles, Submarines, Battleships are designed according to the conditions they will be operated in. can these same weapons systems work in space just as effectively?
Imagine a soldier in space, Firing bullets through his gun that he uses on earth. ‘Every action has an equal and opposite reaction’. Hence, the force exerted by the gun on a bullet to push it forward will be experienced by the soldier in the opposite direction. Same as on Earth right? Except now he has nothing to hold on to. The more he fires, the more recoils will be experienced and the faster he will move backward. (Something that doesn’t seem to occur in Call of Duty Ghosts. Sorry C.O.D. )
Then what weapons are useful in space if not guns?. Lasers! It would be very lethal in space even for thousands of kilometers. It is an electromagnetic wave with immense energy capable of traveling at the speed of light! No chance of dodging it even if the target is 10,000 km away. How about a dogfight between spaceships? Here on earth, it is better to be behind the enemy aircraft chasing him. One should not try to follow an enemy in space, it can just rotate and shoot back at you while moving in the same direction i.e away from you. Same laws of physics but a very different environment.
I hope to see no wars in space. But it seems inevitable considering the fact that we cannot be peaceful on our planet.
Can a machine capable of changing the curvature of space be used as a weapon?
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