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00:00This time on Future Weapons.
00:06When you need firepower on the move, catch a wave.
00:11They're no longer a threat.
00:14It might look like a standard assault rifle, but this PSD packs twice the punch.
00:21It's going to do its job.
00:24And want to stop terrorists from hijacking or blowing up your plane?
00:28There's a new scanner that sees the solution.
00:32What we bring to those machines is a brain.
00:36I'm Richard Makowicz.
00:39A decade as a U.S. Navy SEAL primed me for the world of future weapons.
00:58For the Personal Protection Specialist, safeguarding the life of your client is everything.
01:09And every member of your detail must be constantly vigilant.
01:19Moving through a public place with a high-risk protectee, an attack can come from anywhere.
01:25You want to know that the weapon you're carrying can deliver the knockout punch.
01:36The M4 or the MP5 is often the weapon of choice.
01:42But it's far from ideal when you're coming up against bigger rounds with more punching power.
01:56Get him! Get him!
02:12We're facing attackers wearing body armor.
02:17And our standard-issue weapons are struggling to knock them down.
02:20No doubt about it, this situation sucks.
02:27They have AK-47s firing the 7.62 round.
02:31We have M4s firing 5.56.
02:34We may be more accurate, but they've got more than double the kinetic energy on their round.
02:39What if I could even out the odds?
02:51On a quest to find something with more kinetic energy than the 5.56-millimeter round,
02:58I've come to an exclusive training center in New Mexico.
03:03With over 40 years of command experience in special operations,
03:07retired Colonel Daryl Elmore realized the limitations of the 5.56-millimeter round back in the Vietnam conflict.
03:16Like all good weapons men, we read all the magazines and we knew all about what it was supposed to do.
03:21And then when it got over there in Vietnam, it didn't do it.
03:24The 5.56, even the ones today, anecdotal, they don't do too well.
03:29And my own personal experience, they don't do too well.
03:32And you've got a lot of experience.
03:34I literally saw it happen and I saw the guy turn around and look at the man who shot him.
03:37He didn't even act like he was hurt.
03:39And you want to drop that guy.
03:40You want to know that he is not going to continue fighting after being shot.
03:45You want to neutralize the threat with a minimum amount of impact on the shot.
03:50So what if you could build a more compact, less conspicuous weapon that hits a whole lot harder than the M4?
03:58That could prove pretty useful, right?
04:02That's a beautiful day.
04:04Yeah, it may be gray outside and no, these aren't rose-colored glasses.
04:08But I'm sitting at a range and I'm firing an amazing weapon.
04:12It is a 6.8-millimeter round-firing machine and it is unbelievable.
04:19Meet the all-new PSD, or Personal Security Detail Weapon, from LWRC.
04:30It has a compact 8-inch barrel, firing the more powerful 6.8-millimeter round.
04:37It uses a short-stroke gas piston system.
04:51It's accurate and incredibly robust in just about any environment.
05:01And we have secured exclusive first-time access to this weapon.
05:08One of the beautiful things about this weapon is everything feels familiar, just like an M4.
05:13So if you've ever fired that weapon system, no problem.
05:16Safety, everything is exactly the same.
05:18The grip, same.
05:20Even the magazine release, everything is the exact same.
05:23Even the amount of recoil you're getting back feels exactly the same as the M4.
05:28But what it really comes down to is it fires the 6.8-millimeter round.
05:32It gives you more than double the kinetic energy traveling downrange and into the target you have to take out.
05:40If you're out there in a bad situation, you want to know that round is going to have an effect.
05:47When U.S. troops went into Somalia in the early 1990s, they were using the standard 5.56 round.
05:55A little over 10 years ago I was involved in the Black Hawk down that Mark Bowden wrote about in his book.
06:00Special Operations over in Somalia.
06:04One man who was right there in the heart of the action was Paul Howe.
06:11Right now we've had problems going back to Somalia with the current 5.56.
06:18People did not react like they do in the movies.
06:21They were hit multiple times, still continue to fight or do other battlefield activities.
06:26The mechanics of weapon systems, they haven't changed that greatly since then.
06:30We're still running into the same problems with the bullets and the bullet weight and the energy transfer with those bullets.
06:35Future Weapons gave Paul the chance to try out the new PSD for the very first time.
06:42This is the first time I fired a PSD.
06:45Very easy weapon. It's the same basic weapon system as the M4 platform.
06:49A little bit more recoil, a little sharper, nothing you can't handle.
06:53This weapon will make a great difference at the threat targets that are up close and personal.
06:59Those are the ones that are the most dangerous.
07:01And the heavier bullet will do that.
07:06Next we road test the PSD and its heavier bullet to show you its stopping power.
07:20The new PSD or Personal Security Detail Weapon from LWRC fires the bigger 6.8mm round, giving it a lot more punch than the standard 5.56mm round.
07:34It has a compact 8-inch barrel, so it's shorter than the M4, making it ideal for high-risk, close-in protection.
07:45But how about its range and accuracy?
07:47With the 6.8mm round, it can reach out beyond 200 meters incredibly accurately.
07:55And to have a little fun, I've added dynamite to the targets.
08:01Everybody loves a good blast.
08:03And its new design goes much further to produce a weapon that's also rugged and reliable.
08:11It uses a short-stroke gas-piston system. This carries the dirty propellant gases away from the chamber.
08:19So, even in full-auto combat, it's still a great weapon.
08:23A short-stroke gas-piston system. This carries the dirty propellant gases away from the chamber.
08:31So, even in full-auto mode, it's cleaner than most conventional firing mechanisms. And more importantly, it's more reliable.
08:40The one thing you want to know, well, beyond a shadow of a doubt, is that when you need your weapon to perform,
08:48no matter what environment you're in,
08:56it's going to do its job.
08:59Submerge a gun in water, and the liquid quickly fills every little gap,
09:03blocking the escape route for all of the combustion gases.
09:08Try to fire a waterlogged weapon, and it could result in a jam.
09:12Or worse, the gun could literally blow up in your face.
09:17The PSD's strategically placed drain holes means as soon as you come up for air, you can start shooting.
09:24So, with all of these advantages stacking up, I want to see how the PSD stands up against a coordinated attack on a personal security detail.
09:55This time, everybody in the convoy is carrying the PSD.
10:05Protective details are probably one of the most challenging jobs in the world, because you have to be vigilant all the time.
10:13And rarely do you actually see a threat until the one second you decide to relax, then all hell breaks loose.
10:20In this kind of convoy formation, the front and rear vehicles are providing cover for the middle.
10:27I'm in the middle suburban with VIP Judy, and a detail of two more agents.
10:33I'm in the middle suburban with VIP Judy, and a detail of two more agents.
10:50The front vehicle is attacked.
10:56When you're under attack, the first rule is to get out of the kill zone fast.
11:03The vehicle in front is out of action and blocking us in. We return fire.
11:21With the PSD, shooting through our vehicle's tempered windshield is no problem.
11:33With the PSD, shooting through our vehicle's tempered windshield is no problem.
11:39As you can see, after our little demonstration, Judy, our protectee, is still alive.
11:46Thank you for being here.
11:48What you really want to understand here is that the M4 shoots the 5.56.
11:52Now the 5.56, well, it has a very small bullet right there. That's the tip of it.
11:56And when this is trying to come through tempered glass or armored glass,
12:00what's going to happen is because it's very fast and it's very small,
12:03its tendency will be to fragment, to fall apart as it's coming through that glass,
12:07which means not a whole lot is going downrange, and whatever is going downrange
12:11doesn't have a lot of kinetic energy on it.
12:14Well, if you can see the bullet head here on the 6.8, well,
12:19this actually stays in one piece, comes through that glass,
12:22maintains its kinetic energy, lands on the target, and drops that guy.
12:27And the beautiful thing about that is the person you're protecting, well, their life is safe.
12:37Coming up, a new wave makes a splash in Israel.
12:53On Israel's Mediterranean coastline, not far from Tel Aviv,
12:58lies a secret Israeli Defense Force test site, surrounded by sand dunes.
13:11I've come here to experience the power and precision of a state-of-the-art weapon system
13:16simply known as the Wave.
13:19The Wave turns the tide for old weapons
13:25and transforms them into future weapons.
13:34Tanks and armored vehicles play a vital role in the defense strategy for the State of Israel.
13:43To serve those land forces effectively,
13:45Israeli military industries built the Wave to be a 21st-century solution to a 20th-century problem.
13:53The problem? In armored vehicles, the gunner needs to be up on top to see the target and aim the weapon.
14:00But this leaves him open and exposed to attack, not ideal for him or the rest of the unit.
14:08The solution? The Wave.
14:11The solution? The Wave.
14:14The weapon is still mounted outside the vehicle, but the gunner stays protected on the inside,
14:20remotely operating anything from a 7.62mm machine gun to a 40mm grenade launcher.
14:29The Wave is an incredible synthesis of old, reliable, powerful technology
14:34with new gyro-stabilization and electrical-optical sensors
14:39that allow your guy to stay safely inside the armored vehicle and away from outside threats.
14:46Wave pushes any performance of any weapon to its utmost.
14:52Rami Sokelar is Director of Marketing at IMI's Land Systems Division.
14:58Whether urban warfare or conventional warfare,
15:03the Wave can enable the crew to perform their task to their utmost.
15:13To show just how effective this combination of old and new technology really is,
15:18here they've married the incredibly advanced Wave platform to the great, reliable Browning M250-caliber machine gun.
15:27Transforming it into a powerful weapon system for tomorrow's battlefield.
15:33All right, Monty, you're going to teach me how to use this?
15:36Yes. All right. Start with the joystick.
15:39Monty Mamalia is IMI's chief instructor on the Wave.
15:44This is a weapon joystick. You have here elevation up and down.
15:50So it's kind of like an aircraft.
15:52If I actually want to go up, I've got to go down.
15:54Yes. Got it.
15:57Normally, with any optical sight placed on a gun,
16:01there's an offset between the line of sight and the path of the bullet.
16:06When the Wave platform has been calibrated to the weapon,
16:10a combination of optical sensors and a laser rangefinder locks on to the target.
16:20A cock button, when you push it, the weapon is hooked.
16:25Got it. So essentially what it's doing is it's doing all the manual work of bringing that bolt back
16:30and into firing position, loading that .50 cal round.
16:33Once the gunner has aimed the weapon, the system will stay locked on to the target.
16:40Here we go.
16:46Two shots, center mass.
16:50Two shots to the head.
16:52I'll tell you what, having a .50 caliber machine gun
16:57throwing those gigantic rounds at you is a nightmare.
17:01With this kind of accuracy and the fact that I can do it from complete safety from within the cab,
17:06I'll tell you, it's going to definitely make a warfighter feel a lot safer.
17:12But the really clever part, and by far the most difficult,
17:16is getting the system to work on the move.
17:21This is where the WAVE's advanced technology really comes into its own.
17:27There is a software that analyzes the pixels,
17:30and from this we can enable the system, first of all, to stabilize the system.
17:37Three separate stabilizers use fiber optic gyroscopes to relay their data back to the system,
17:44all at the speed of light.
17:47This instantaneous feedback means the platform stays locked solidly on to the target,
17:53no matter what the vehicle does or how much recoil there is from the weapon.
18:02Highly sophisticated digital software even analyzes the image
18:07to give the operator an early warning of danger.
18:11The video motion detection, for example, for an ambush scenario
18:14will enable you to detect and to alert you that there is something new in the vicinity of your vehicle.
18:23It all sounds great in theory.
18:26But can the WAVE really deliver what it promises?
18:31Now we're driving up on a group attempting to rig a car with explosives.
18:37They line up to fire at us. We have to react now.
18:45First, take out the vehicle, then take out the other threats.
18:52What we've got is a car loaded with IEDs.
18:55We want to take those guys out, stop them.
18:59All right, here we go.
19:15I'm going to cock it again.
19:20Okay, ready?
19:28Guys with IEDs trying to do bad things.
19:45Bang!
19:52Just like that, they're no longer a threat.
19:57All handled while on the move.
20:00Be careful. If you're coming against the Israeli Defense Force and they have a WAVE mounted on their vehicle,
20:07it may come crashing down on you.
20:12Bang!
20:14Bang!
20:18Bang!
20:20Bang!
20:22Bang!
20:24Bang!
20:26Bang!
20:28Bang!
20:30Next, keeping terrorist attacks out of the sky.
20:34Believe it or not, airport security is on the front line.
20:38We take 10 trillion calculations to figure out what's inside the plane.
20:48Terrorists have been targeting commercial aircraft for over 40 years, with deadly effect.
20:54These attacks on the ground, and especially in the air, are designed to grab headlines around the world
21:01and strike terror into the hearts of civilians.
21:06In our effort to make air travel safer, we've gathered better intelligence.
21:11There are longer security lines with more thorough searches.
21:14We've even strengthened cockpit doors and put sky marshals on planes.
21:19But those measures mean the threat is already on board.
21:22That means the threat is already on board the plane with you at 35,000 feet.
21:27With explosives, by that time, it's too late.
21:33To truly be effective, you need to stop the threat on the ground at the checkpoints
21:38before the terrorists get anywhere near an aircraft,
21:42which makes airport security screening a mission-critical part of every passenger flight.
21:47This x-ray machine right here is on the front line in the war on terrorism.
21:53And at stake are millions of lives and billions of dollars every single day.
22:01It is a mission-critical function that we're talking about at the checkpoints at any airport.
22:07Aviation security expert Chris Yates is well aware of the limitations of existing airport screening systems.
22:14We have a set of technology at the checkpoints which is outdated.
22:19It's as simple as that.
22:21We're talking metal detection, we're talking x-ray.
22:23Both of those were put in place in the airport at a time when we were looking for hijackers.
22:28The guy with the three sticks of dynamite and, you know, the alarm clock.
22:32Really obvious kind of threats.
22:34That's right.
22:36But the systems we have now aren't capable of meeting modern threats.
22:39For example, plastic explosive, liquid explosive, the gels, the pastes, and so on.
22:45So we need to get smarter.
22:47The question is how do you take a machine like that and make it brilliant enough
22:53to dominate the deadly game of hide and seek that it has to win every single day.
23:01And in Quebec, Canada, a company called OptoSecurity has developed a machine
23:06and in Canada, a company called OptoSecurity has done just that.
23:13They've granted me exclusive access to their groundbreaking system
23:17which automatically detects two of the biggest threats air travelers face from terrorists.
23:22Guns and liquid explosives.
23:29Conventional equipment simply shows an image of everything in the back,
23:32which can be confusing.
23:34With the pressure of screening so many travelers,
23:37there's a chance that something lethal could slip through.
23:40You have electronics, you have a hair dryer, you have coins, a watch, an umbrella, you have a chain.
23:46What we bring to those machines is a brain.
23:49Eric Bergeron leads the team that built OptoScreener.
23:54We're the first one to develop a product that will help,
23:57finally help the screener to find the threat inside the bag.
24:01The new system has been pre-programmed with anything that a terrorist might try to smuggle on board.
24:07We have the world's largest database of threats in x-ray image.
24:11So, guns, weapon parts, dangerous liquids, I mean, detonators, name it.
24:16So, we work very closely with our federal police here
24:19and they helped us to build up that huge database of bad things.
24:24To see this system in action, we've decided to challenge it.
24:27We're planting guns in carry-on baggage.
24:30But we're not making it easy.
24:33Some of the guns are disassembled.
24:36The first challenge is easy.
24:39The sort of thing a human screener would have no problem seeing.
24:42What I love so much about this is when you look at this,
24:46here you can see everything, right?
24:48But if you have a bunch of other metal next to it, it might be something else.
24:52But here, when you get to your screen, it fades everything out.
24:55When you get to your screen, it fades everything else into the background.
24:58It dims the safe stuff and highlights the nasty stuff.
25:02Alright, piece of cake. Now...
25:05Current equipment shows everything in the bag.
25:09But OptoScreener's ability to isolate just the threat
25:13makes the screener's job a whole lot easier.
25:17That's a slide right there, isn't it?
25:19See, it pops right up.
25:21There's the slide and there's the little receiver of the pistol.
25:23You can zoom in as well.
25:25Oh, look at that. That's incredible. That's fantastic.
25:27You see some fine details inside the gun.
25:29That's perfect.
25:31This system can detect any weapon, even its individual parts,
25:35no matter what their orientation or what else is in the bag.
25:40As potential threats change, OptoScreener adapts.
25:46It's upgradable, too.
25:48So every year, bad guys will come up with new threats.
25:50Every year, we'll be able to update the database every quarter.
25:55OptoScreener recognizes more than just firearms.
26:01August 2006.
26:04London Heathrow, one of the busiest airports in the world,
26:09is brought to a standstill.
26:12Intelligence agencies had discovered a whole new kind of threat.
26:17Terrorists planned to wipe out 10 passenger planes
26:21using a deadly mixture of liquid explosives.
26:25Before this, everyday household liquids
26:29were never considered a real threat to air travel.
26:33But when scientists from the U.S. government copied their recipe,
26:40the results were terrifying.
26:44The frightening thing is, those ingredients can be bought at any drugstore.
26:51But building a machine that can tell the difference
26:53between harmless and dangerous liquids was an enormous technical challenge.
27:00Dan Goodmanson was the man who developed that capability.
27:05This is the XMS, which we call the X-ray molecular spectrometer.
27:11We had to have a cool name.
27:13Of course, of course.
27:15Reading the XMS display couldn't be simpler.
27:19Any liquid gel or paste that's non-threatening
27:21is outlined in green, and anything dangerous shows up in red.
27:27Green for go, red for stop.
27:30It couldn't get any simpler than that.
27:33This is like what I would normally take through the screening zone, right?
27:37Exactly.
27:39To test the system, I put some personal items in the tray,
27:42including a nasty surprise.
27:45Now I put this in here.
27:47In a traditional screening process,
27:49would anybody think twice of that?
27:52What's wrong with that bag?
27:54Well, let's give it a scan and see if there is.
27:56Okay.
27:57What Dan doesn't know is that I filled a tiny bottle of hand sanitizer
28:01with a liquid for a chemical bomb.
28:05Okay, so let's do the scan.
28:10So let's see, what is the mouthwash?
28:14Is it in fact a mouthwash?
28:16Mouthwash.
28:18So all I did was select the bottle.
28:20Okay, it says it's a safe material.
28:22It's a nice little green box around it.
28:25So we're good.
28:26Next one.
28:27Green outline.
28:29And this is the hand sanitizer.
28:35Oh.
28:36Hazardous material, flammable.
28:38So right off the bat, you know there's something up.
28:40Absolutely.
28:41Because hand sanitizer is not normally hazardous material and flammable.
28:45Correct.
28:47So I think you tricked me and you went and put alcohol or acetone.
28:50I'm a clever guy about that, you know.
28:52But not clever enough to fool this machine.
28:57It works by exploring the fact that X-rays contain two discrete energy levels.
29:02By analyzing and comparing the way these energies interact with the molecular structure of the liquid being tested,
29:09the system is able to distinguish between liquids that are chemically very similar.
29:16In fact, it's so sensitive, it even knows the difference between regular and Diet Coke.
29:23To do this, OptoScreener also has to filter out and ignore any other materials,
29:30like the bag, the tray, the can, or the bottle containing the liquid.
29:36It sounds easy, but it takes an incredible amount of processing power.
29:41We take 10 trillion calculations to figure out what's inside there.
29:46Okay? So that's like a huge number of calculations.
29:51Even more amazingly, the OptoScreener performs these trillions of calculations in less than a second,
29:58again and again, for each and every item.
30:02I've been looking at hardware for airport security for tens of years now.
30:07And this is a piece of kit that comes perhaps the closest to offering that boost in security
30:15that is so desperately needed in our airports.
30:18Already being installed in a number of classified locations and considered for use at the next Olympics,
30:25this equipment won't just help speed up the long lines at airports.
30:29It also has the power to catch the terrorist red-handed,
30:31making air travel safer for all of us, by helping to prevent the unthinkable.
30:43Coming up, I travel to Sweden to unleash the latest weapon in naval artillery.
31:02I'm in northern Europe to see a new generation of naval gun
31:06that claims to have solved some of the major limitations of its predecessors.
31:10Built by BAE Systems, it's about to undergo a trial run at a highly restricted range in central Sweden.
31:19This is the Mark III.
31:22It's the first of its kind.
31:24It's about to undergo a trial run at a highly restricted range in central Sweden.
31:30This is the Mark I-10.
31:32It fires the 57mm round, which is pretty small by naval weapon standards.
31:37It is an incredibly versatile warhead because you can program it to do whatever you want, whenever you want.
31:45Weighing in at 15,000 pounds, the Mark I-10 is considered a lightweight weapon
31:51for a 150-ton ship.
31:55Yeah, lightweight, but highly devastating.
32:06Conventional ship-mounted guns are great against big targets,
32:11but today's threats come in all shapes and sizes,
32:14from small, highly maneuverable surface craft to missiles and UAVs.
32:19The Mark I-10 has been designed to tackle them all.
32:26Tell me a little bit about the Mark I-10.
32:29220 rounds per minute.
32:31It has an intelligent munition, which is basically one round for just about every threat that you could cut across.
32:39Scott Thompson has been instrumental in bringing this ship-mounted technology to the United States.
32:44With this programmable ammunition, you're able to fire five meters above the target,
32:50and with a shroud of lead coming down on top of the target, it's a highly lethal combination.
32:59But this is future weapons.
33:02Why tell you when we can show you?
33:04I'm about to fire this brand-new naval gun using its highly advanced 57-millimeter round,
33:10with a firing rate of 220 rounds per minute.
33:14You better not blink.
33:17The target's two small boats, positioned across the lake.
33:22The rounds have been programmed to explode above the targets in airburst mode.
33:27Ten seconds.
33:29Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
33:37Fire!
33:58Ow.
34:01Say you're up to no good, and you're out there in a little boat.
34:04Well, for the Mark I-10, you won't be up to no good for very long.
34:14What makes the 57-millimeter warhead so deadly is not just the explosive.
34:20It's what's packed around it.
34:22This would be the explosive, but right here,
34:24these are the tungsten filaments, or the tungsten fragments.
34:28Small tungsten pre-fragmented fragments that will go out,
34:33and there are 2,400 tungsten balls coming out here.
34:37Michael Brenting, the man behind this round,
34:41knows its deadly capabilities better than anyone.
34:46What kind of speeds are we talking these tungsten balls coming out at?
34:50We are talking about 1,500 miles per second.
34:52So that's just going to rip right through steel.
34:54It's going to rip through pretty much anything.
34:56Through anything, yeah.
34:58That's true.
35:01In slow motion, you can see how the rounds detonate above the boats.
35:08The precision timing of the fuse guarantees the tungsten fragments
35:13have the most devastating effect.
35:18But the time mode is just one second.
35:20But the time mode is just one of six different settings
35:24this multi-function round can operate in.
35:28Incredibly, the fuse can be programmed to engage any threat
35:32and guarantee the best hit.
35:36When we designed the gun, we basically had to design it
35:41to be able to take on any threat that is available out there today.
35:46The 3P round, 3P ammunition, is perhaps the most important factor
35:51that makes this weapon unique.
35:54The base of it is actually a little radar.
35:58It transmits radar signals.
36:00Let me get this straight.
36:02You're saying this is basically a miniature radar.
36:04Yes.
36:06And you can program it any way you want it to perform.
36:08If you want it to perform at the last second,
36:10so it doesn't give itself away, it can do that.
36:12That's true.
36:13Proximity fuses have been around for a while,
36:15but the really unique thing with this is that it is programmable
36:19in a time mode as well.
36:22In time mode, the warhead detonates at a specific time and distance
36:27after it's left the gun.
36:32In proximity mode, the fuse triggers when it gets close to the target.
36:37There are even three different proximity settings to choose from,
36:41depending on the target.
36:44Up against big, heavily armored targets,
36:47the impact mode explodes the round on contact.
36:51To do all of this, the sophisticated electronics in the fuse
36:55also have to be incredibly tough to withstand the extreme force of the launch.
37:01What kind of G-forces are we talking about this thing having to sustain?
37:05It actually has to sustain some 60,000 Gs.
37:1060,000 Gs?
37:1360,000 Gs in the moment of firing.
37:17Between the moment of launch and leaving the barrel,
37:20the round is accelerated to nearly 3,500 miles an hour.
37:25It's subjected to a force of 60,000 times the Earth's gravitational pull.
37:33To give you some idea of what that means,
37:36at those sort of Gs, a baseball has an effective weight of 8.5 tons.
37:44GENERAL QUARTERS
37:49Next, find out what else the Mark 1-10 is capable of
37:53when we use it against a terrorist attack.
37:56General Quarters, General Quarters. All hands man your battle stations.
38:08I'm at a restricted test location in central Sweden
38:10where I've been given an exclusive first look
38:13at BAE Systems' groundbreaking naval gun, the Mark 1-10.
38:18Fire!
38:26I've already seen the fragmentation effect of the 57mm rounds in airburst mode
38:31exploding above these two small boats.
38:34Now, I'm about to fire the Mark 1-10 at a metal container
38:38representing an enemy vessel or vehicle.
38:43For this, we need the warhead to explode on contact.
38:48This is a job for impact mode.
38:52Stand by for countdown.
38:55Countdown starts.
38:57Ten, nine, eight, seven,
39:01six, five, four, three, two, one.
39:07Fire!
39:20Just like that, the fire control system can program the round
39:24at the last millisecond to take out that specific target.
39:27And the results are devastating.
39:33From a thousand yards away, it looks like a pretty good hit.
39:37But I want to take a closer look.
39:43You can see all five rounds went inside there.
39:46As a matter of fact, there's this tiny little hole in the middle.
39:49That was the training round. That was the placement round.
39:52So you can see how just deadly accuracy is required
39:55so you can see how just deadly accurate the gun is.
40:03You can actually see where the training round went
40:06straight out the other side.
40:08But if you look at all the tiny holes right there, deadly accurate.
40:16This gun has another trick up its sleeve.
40:20It's the only medium caliber naval gun in the world
40:23with the ability to quickly switch ammunition types.
40:29One of the things that's really interesting is you can actually switch
40:32from a warning shot to a live round taking out a target within a second.
40:37That's true.
40:39The gun magazines have two compartments, one left and one right.
40:43So you can have training rounds and warning shots in one side
40:48and live rounds in the other one.
40:52This ability to switch rounds at the last moment can be vital.
40:56To show you how, let's play out an attack scenario.
41:03A naval patrol ship fitted with the Mark 110 is given the job of protecting the harbor.
41:10A group of terrorists plan to breach the security perimeter with deadly cargo.
41:17They've loaded up a small boat with heavy equipment.
41:21A boat with a lot of explosives.
41:24A small vessel like this could easily be mistaken as harmless.
41:29To determine their intention, we fire warning shots.
41:37This is exactly the kind of danger that naval and coast guard ships have to deal with today.
41:43Deceptive and deadly.
41:46Alright, here's the situation.
41:48A small boat loaded down has breached our security perimeter and is headed straight toward us.
41:57General Quarters, General Quarters. All hands man your battle stations.
42:03From a distance, it's impossible to tell if this small boat is a real threat.
42:09What we're going to do is fire two warning shots to see if we can get their attention.
42:15This is a lot more challenging with a conventional gun because blank and live rounds are loaded sequentially.
42:22With the Mark 110's twin compartments, you can switch from a warning shot to a live round as often as you want.
42:35Two warning shots and nothing has happened. It's time for us to take action.
42:41Any further delay could cost lives.
42:44The small boat is unmanned and locked onto a course of destruction.
42:50In the space of a half second, the Mark 110 switches from blank to live rounds.
42:56Fire!
43:10I wish they would have listened to the warning shots.
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