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Antimatter makes it possible to create the hypersonic rifle bullet.
The Boeing-Nammo corporation tested new air-breathing ramjet-driven ammunition. The next tool in the sad series of military technology can be antimatter ammunition. The "Teller's bomb" or antimatter weapon is the magnetic chamber where is antimatter. The magnetic system keeps antiprotons or positrons away from its wall.
And that makes it possible to create a bullet-size missile that can destroy the entire city. There is calculated that one gram of antimatter can turn the entire Earth into a molecular cloud. So the size of Teller's Bomb could be smaller than a cigarette.
A miniaturized antimatter rocket makes it possible to create the hypersonic rifle bullet. In that case, the rocket of the enhanced range ammunition's rocket engine is changed to an antimatter rocket.
And that makes it possible to create a rifle that can shoot even over the oceans. If the system uses fire-and-forget technology that kind of ammunition can make it possible to create a rifle that can shoot a person from another side of the Earth.
Nanotechnology makes it possible to create a small magnetic chamber where the antimatter can be stored. The system can use a small cloud of antiprotons or positrons and that system can use as a miniature nuclear weapon. In that case, the rifle has the same firepower as a nuclear missile.
Antimatter can also give an ability to create the antimatter rocket that accelerates the regular bullet to hypersonic speed. The idea is that the small particle accelerator creates antimatter in the bullet just before use. Then the magnetic chamber keeps them away from the wall of the chamber. When a bullet is used the air will react with antimatter and that energy will conduct backward through fullerene nanotubes. This is one version of the use of nanotechnology in military work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter_weapon
Image 1:) Smithsonian institute
Image 2:) Wikipedia, Barrett M-82
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