Defense.gov News Photo 110426-A-7597S-183: U.S. Special Operations service members with Special Operations Task Force South board two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters following a clearing operation in Panjwa'i district in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2011. Source: Wikimedia.
If I had to bet, I would say the “new” super weapon would be anti matter bombs.
An anonymous text posted on Newsgroups (Jan, 28, 1997 on sci.astro) about the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 talks about an anti matter weapon test on Jupiter in 1993:
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_shoemaker01.htm
(Sorry for the crappy website, but it is getting increasingly harder to find this text.)