Surely the energy needed to deflect a fast-moving projectile would be more then enough to cause substantial damage to the rest of the tank, unless we're going to start making them out of plastic.darkknight9 said:
Scientists Work on Force Fields for Tanks
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This so much, I would love to see their shock/horror at the fact that the tank is still rolling towards them. Now we just need to replace guns with laser based weapons and we have a pretty bad ass weapons platform, either that or can we make those titans from Warhammer 40K?GrinningManiac said:
All jokes aside I wonder how much something like this would cost in terms of building it, mounting it on a tank and seeing if it would drain too much power from the tank as it does it's job or how many rounds could it take before the shields would give out.
You can't. It's impossible. The idea is that a sudden pulse of charge to the hull would create an EM wave that would slightly alter the trajectory of the RPG, hopefully enough to prevent damage to the crew.Syon said:
I am extremely skeptical that this actually makes sense. I'd wait for a demonstration before I believe it. Can an EM pulse really alter the trajectory of a large, partly-metallic, mostly non-ferromagnetic projectile?
You don't understand warfare, do you? All war, no matter who are fighting, is all about being 100 steps ahead, all the time.sravankb said:
Anyway, this idea seems far to inefficient, Slat armor is already being deployed, which is simply sturdy metal cage which crushes the RPG as it comes in, preventing it from detonating effectively, if at all. Of course, it isn't 100%, but where do you get batteries to power electromagnetic pulses like that, and you'd also need to make your tanks with radiation hardening to stop the pulses from screwing up our oh-so important computers. Otherwise, you can't aim well, or navigate, or anything that we want to be able to do.
So it would be tax pounds being wasted then, right?Pillypill said:
You guys should go over to euros just so us Americans can talk about tax dollars, since saying tax pounds sounds awfully silly to my ears.
In any event, the scientists discussing this work for your Ministry of Defence, which means your government would be funding any development.Ditto - but don't worry, something embarrassing will happen when/if we ever get around to using them, it has to.Captain Pancake said:
You have been playing too much Supreme Commander!MurderousToaster said:
OT: Tanks just got more awesome - this is a good day.
All well and good, but someone will invent a RPG made of wood and where will we be then?
Cant help feeling this is an invention to minimize friendly fire incidents.
Cant help feeling this is an invention to minimize friendly fire incidents.
So it's going to be hideously expensive and break beyond the possibility of field/forward base repairs after somebody as much as scratches it with a bayonet/regular bullet/shrapnel from the rpg you just bounced into the ground in front of you? Sure, let's revive the Landkreuzer project while we are at it.Logan Westbrook said:
