Firefight 2000 Author:Dean Ing Short stories and essays on combat in the future. — Some of tomorrow's small arms will have innards as complicated as, say, today's cruise missle. A lot of that complication will be backup emergency subsystems: the armed services can't afford battle gear that works only part of the time. Would you believe jet engines fired as rounds from a combat... more » rifle?
The Air Force is already well on the way with its "heads-up display" for fire control and navigation. If our man wants a zoom display, he can ask for it because his helmet computer will understand his spoken commands.
Early in the next century, men may ahve to fight on the surface of the moon. If our man is in deep shadow he can't use solar power. Could he actually use an oxygent breathing Wankel rotary engine to power a itny generator on an airless planet?« less