The Militarys now got a force field.

Pretty cool, someone at work was telling me about a thing the british have invented, the device holds about a ton of aluminium and its then stripped down to tiny slithers of aluminium, which is then fired from a cannon, anything in its path is ripped to pieces, so missiles just desintegrate, been trying to find a video on it but no luck.
 
no one here knows its the same system as used on ships, in fact i'd suspect it probably ISNT the same. Not sure how it works, but all that ammo being carried to power something of that nature wouldnt be as suitable in a tank imo.

Could be, but i suspect its something novel. I've heard of electric fields being emitted over the surface of vehicles which stop incoming rounds, so would guess this is energy related more than a phalanx type system.

Besides, if we've had a phalanx system for ships for nealry 20 years, theres no doubt if it worked we'd have one for land vehicles already...
 
Very interesting, but as others said not quite the 'force field' I imagined.. And what happens if there are multiple incoming threats!?.. How will it hand that.


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Dontcha know.. Israel is a new state of America.. thats what i heard.. unconfirmed sources eh.

Question is, how many incoming targets can it stop.. 1 is great.. but surely it wont be long before they realise they can fire two and still hit it..
 
Sirrel Squirrel said:
Pretty cool, someone at work was telling me about a thing the british have invented, the device holds about a ton of aluminium and its then stripped down to tiny slithers of aluminium, which is then fired from a cannon, anything in its path is ripped to pieces, so missiles just desintegrate, been trying to find a video on it but no luck.
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isn't that the rail gun they use on ships.. first lumps of metal at ridiculous speeds (pretty much the speed electricity can travel through metal) by electromagnetic pulses up a metal firing arm.
My physics teacher was talking about it.
 
georges said:
isn't that the rail gun they use on ships.. first lumps of metal at ridiculous speeds (pretty much the speed electricity can travel through metal) by electromagnetic pulses up a metal firing arm.
My physics teacher was talking about it.
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could be that but the guy was saying its land based and fires a wall of aluminum shrapnel, he could be wrong but it sounds perfectly feasable.
 
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