US Military Wants Walls That Can Pop Out of Cans for Use on the Field
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Also, I got "can of pop" in my head, which made this article title ludicrously hard to read. xDAlex Co said:
Anyways, sounds cool, but the size of the can they expect to use... yeesh.
Given the measurements, it's only going to be chest-high if they either stack them on top of one another or if the US military conscripts Peter Dinklage to the infantry.FalloutJack said:
What, like this?chaser5000 said:
Interesting thought, but would it stop bullets?
They don't pay 'em for nifty names, just effective usage. And...I hope it actually works.Naqel said:
Yeah, bring the wall with you! That's the way!Random berk said:
You'd better talk to your Congressional Representative. Even the military thinks it's got too much hardware. In all probability, the can-in-a-wall - provided it works at all - will be a simple, cheap device that can be churned out of a factory in carload lots. Congress may well refuse to fund it as it's not complicated enough to require many workers and thus would be a waste of pork barrel money. The point of much defense work is to get government money ladled into particular districts rather than actually create military strength. Remember back when soldiers in Iraq didn't have body armor? It's a similar thing.omega 616 said:
Something like that, and like RJ17 said they already use something like that for construction.FalloutJack said:
In military terms, "concealment" is anything that blocks you from direct view of the enemy, whether it's something solid like a thin wall or open like a row of bushes, but doesn't actually stop direct fire. It doesn't have to be camouflage, which is what you might be thinking of.Random berk said:
I'd like to know how anything you pop out of a can could conceivably assume a sort of "wall" shape on its own. Preferably thicker at the bottom than at the top as well, since without any sort of anchoring the first thing that would happen is your wall falls over.
Unless it's already in the correct shape, just rolled up - but if it's something that could roll up as easily as that, would it be thick enough to stop bullets?
Even if it's made of (or coated with) a material that reacts with air and expands/hardens, that means storing it under some sort of inert gas, probably in a pressurised container. Which isn't something you want to be getting shot when someone's carrying it.
And then there's the problem of it being light enough to carry, given that canister size is longer than most soldiers.
Unless it's already in the correct shape, just rolled up - but if it's something that could roll up as easily as that, would it be thick enough to stop bullets?
Even if it's made of (or coated with) a material that reacts with air and expands/hardens, that means storing it under some sort of inert gas, probably in a pressurised container. Which isn't something you want to be getting shot when someone's carrying it.
And then there's the problem of it being light enough to carry, given that canister size is longer than most soldiers.
So ... basically we just take a tube that's ends come off with an extendable rod like a shower curtain, rolls upwards for X number of feet into a sort of net with thicker lines going through it that act as hollow tubes for a hardening foam to be shot through, possibly by a pressurized can on a delay trigger. Thought we already had this.
This reminds me of the bubble in James Bond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKqdgvsbfFQ&feature=kp
Funny possibilities with kevlar and such, maybe some hardening foam like above
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKqdgvsbfFQ&feature=kp
Funny possibilities with kevlar and such, maybe some hardening foam like above
I am gonna be the first to admit that the iron man suit idea sounds cool enough , but this "canned wall" idea sounds weird. Why can't they just use a more durable type of riot shield?.
The Pentagon wants Jem'Hadar who can force field, stealth and teleport, to go along with the fact that the United States is already the Dominion.
I think war should not be sanitized. I think war should not be made easy. I think war should be as disgusting and horrifying and revolting as possible. I think war should be fought naked with sticks and rocks and teeth and nails. I think war should be something that nobody in their right mind wants to get into. And I think that at the start of every war, the first soldiers on the ground should be the politicians who demanded that war in the first place.
I think war should not be sanitized. I think war should not be made easy. I think war should be as disgusting and horrifying and revolting as possible. I think war should be fought naked with sticks and rocks and teeth and nails. I think war should be something that nobody in their right mind wants to get into. And I think that at the start of every war, the first soldiers on the ground should be the politicians who demanded that war in the first place.
"This should save lives" yeah, but who's lives? It's not like they're fighting aliens, they're shooting up other human beings like you and me. They're not doing it to defend their country either, they're invading other countries and meddling in their business.
I for one hope they failed in their future endeavors to advance new means to kill fellow man.
I for one hope they failed in their future endeavors to advance new means to kill fellow man.