The Militarys now got a force field.

Serj · 14 Apr 2006 at 13:05

ScarySquirrel said:
Soldier: "RPG!!!!!!!!!..........Oh wait, it's gone"

More like "RP.... WTF HAX???!!!!1"

georges · 14 Apr 2006 at 13:43

Serj said:
More like "RP.... WTF HAX???!!!!1"

I loled

Treefrog · 14 Apr 2006 at 13:48

D13 H4XX0R$!!!1one

ScarySquirrel · 14 Apr 2006 at 13:49

Serj said:
More like "RP.... WTF HAX???!!!!1"

LMAO, nice one.

Lee2k4 · 14 Apr 2006 at 14:01

ScarySquirrel said:
I can just see it now.

Soldier: "RPG!!!!!!!!!..........Oh wait, it's gone"

That soldier will be gone if he is standing next to the tank and the soldier gets hit by the fragments from the tanks defence shield.

Lt. Manlove · 14 Apr 2006 at 14:05

American propaganda more like

They're probably trying to do it, but I doubt it actually works.

IceBus · 14 Apr 2006 at 14:07

hybrid said:
mmm sounds good. But the fact that its developed by the people we are fighting doesnt?!

Still though, i wouldnt mind one around my car.

As MatBlack said, we're not fighting Israel you plank. Contrary to latest reports coming in from the scientific community, all middle-eastern countries aren't in fact the same.

A2Z · 14 Apr 2006 at 14:29

Matblack said:
http://nomoresocks.newscientist.com/products/detail.aspx?productid=399

MB

i might actually get that

Neoni · 14 Apr 2006 at 14:33

nothing to special then really?

Phantom · 14 Apr 2006 at 14:48

theyve been looking into this for a while now and the british are researching something similiar. its not what you think it is, it doesnt work in the same way force fields work in Star Trek/Star Wars

xiphrex · 14 Apr 2006 at 14:50

I wonder if it works when there are RPG's coming from all direction.

Inquisitor · 14 Apr 2006 at 15:21

It's nothing like a force field, it's just a point defence system.

Treefrog said:
It says it targets explosive warheads and destroys them, but that the missile may still hit the target but do only kinetic energy damage. All well and good until they are up against DU penetrators.

Yup, just what I was thinking... although the original article does mention that it may be able to take out penetrators at some point...

iSam · 14 Apr 2006 at 15:27

UKDTweak said:
Its just a vehicle version of the goalkeeper ? system used by the navy against air to ship missles.

Pretty much, but I think it will be really good for helicopters, as they are so vulnerable as was highlighted in Mogadishu.

DarkShadow · 14 Apr 2006 at 15:59

Amleto said:
2 bits short of a bob?

lol

Luseac · 14 Apr 2006 at 16:45

AJUK said:
Is that the new SimShip game. I like the little victory fist at the end.

No it's a video of the new Type 45

NathanE · 14 Apr 2006 at 17:44

"Top secret countermeasure"... Hmm... High powered laser beam methinks. I saw a documentary on Discovery channel about 8 years ago about this but back then it was mounted to a plane. Obviously they've shrinked the technology down and mounted it to a tank now!

It's nothing like a force field, it's just a point defence system.

But surely if the defense system is capable of 360 degrees and the deflection of say 1 attack per 10 seconds then it is effectively providing a force field?

Jokester · 14 Apr 2006 at 17:54

If you watch the video, there's quite clearly shrapnal being fired from the tank, and indeed in one shot you can actually see something explode on the side of the tank prior to the RPG exploding (without hitting the tank).

As far as I'm aware the Russians have had something similar for years.

Jokester

NathanE · 14 Apr 2006 at 17:55

But surely a shrapnel countermeasure has the risk of friendly fire? :eek:

gord · 14 Apr 2006 at 18:27

NathanE said:
But surely a shrapnel countermeasure has the risk of friendly fire?

Friendly fire to the upper echelons of the politicos isnt a risk.. its a calculated expense..

Jokester · 14 Apr 2006 at 18:28

gord said:
Friendly fire to the upper echelons of the politicos isnt a risk.. its a calculated expense..

At least the tank will be in one piece

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Jokester

Edit:-

wikipedia said:
Explosive reactive armor has been valued by the Soviet Union and its now-independent component states since the 1980s, and almost every tank in the eastern-European military inventory today has either been manufactured to use ERA or had ERA tiles added to it, including even the T-55 and T-62 tanks built forty to fifty years ago, but still used today by reserve units.

ERA tiles are used as add-on (or "appliqué") armor to the most vulnerable portions of an armored fighting vehicle, typically the front (glacis) of the hull and the front and sides of the turret. Their use requires that the vehicle itself be fairly heavily armored to protect the vehicle and its crew from the exploding ERA; usually, ERA can not be mounted on the less heavily armored sides or rear of a vehicle.

A further complication to the use of ERA is the inherent danger to anybody near the tank when a plate detonates. Although ERA plates are intended only to bulge following detonation, the combined energy of the ERA explosive, coupled with the kinetic or explosive energy of the projectile, will frequently explosively fragment the plate. The explosion of an ERA plate creates a significant amount of shrapnel, and bystanders are in grave danger of serious or fatal injury. As a result, ERA cannot be used on vehicles deployed as combined arms with infantry.