Star Trek-style force-field armour being developed by military scientists
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So it pretty much ONLY protects against RPG's? What if we spend $40 trillion on this then go to war with a country/faction that doesn't use shaped charges, or some kind of non metallic shaped charge or something crazy like that? We're fucked?
Yeah, it is ganna take like 20 years before it comes out.
[QUOTE=GunFox;20894663]Iraq was one big clusterfuck. The stated reason for the invasion was bullshit from the start.
There was no fuzziness in Iraq. It was a military engagement. Civilians were seen as innocents and casualties were avoided. If it was a war there would have likely been weeks if not months of bombings of the cities until anything above a single story was rubble.[/QUOTE]
Fair enough.
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[QUOTE=GunFox;20911862]Beyond the military applications are space applications. One of the hurdles for manned space flight is finding a way to stop micrometeorites.[/QUOTE]
Refer to my thread about the UKSA.
Shields to full power! - Kirk
I just can't do it Captain, I don't have the POWER!!! - Scotty
[QUOTE=Trotsky;20912110][b]That's not my point, why the hell are they getting shot at in the first place is beyond me.[/b] The uk government should focus on pulling out of this useless war then fucking spending millions of pounds to try and put a band-aid on the issue.
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for the record, i do know what I'm talking about. It's more shit for a useless war.[/QUOTE]
Cause you know, there will be more wars in the future.
[QUOTE=Asmaedus;20913059]So it pretty much ONLY protects against RPG's? What if we spend $40 trillion on this then go to war with a country/faction that doesn't use shaped charges, or some kind of non metallic shaped charge or something crazy like that? We're fucked?[/QUOTE]
It will deflect any ferrous objects and anything that reacts to a magnetic field.
This would be very useful in space, for deflecting micrometeorites as well as protecting against some forms of radiation, as even a slow discharge would probably act like the Earth's magnetic field.
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