These Are The Weapons That A U.S. Space Corps Will Need

The US Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle 4 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida, May 7, 2017. US Air Force

Business Insider/We Are The Mighty: 4 insane but real weapons the Space Corps will need

Fighting in space isn't as easy as just spraying bullets and hoping for the best. As a matter of fact, in the vacuum of space and an arena without friction, you're really just asking for the worst. Even in a training exercise, bullets would go on forever in the absence of anything to slow them down, hitting god-knows-what and killing god-knows-whom and the next thing you know: Interstellar War.

These weapons will help solve that issue.

It's a proven fact that bullets will fire from a weapon, even in a vacuum. Modern ammo contains its own oxidizer, a chemical that triggers the explosive needed to fire a bullet. But this doesn't mean you should shoot things in space with bullets.

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WNU Editor: This is the first time that I am learning about this weapon .... MAgneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM) (DARPA).