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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 12:59 am
by TMLutas
EdBecerra wrote:TMLutas wrote:The struggle is to keep the new stuff from ballooning the load beyond the 70+ pounds soldiers carry in their normal pack. If you can substitute synthsilk for kevlar and get the same protection for one pound less weight, that's one pound of extra goodies that can add to survivability, such as more bullets, water, or adding blue force tracker to individual loads.
This is one of the reasons why the army keeps experimenting with cartridgeless bullets. These are very high tech bullets that manifest their benefit by weighing less. Losing the brass weight is such an obvious weight reducer that anybody who figures out how to crack that code is going to be a major hero.
*shrugs* Recently, in Japan, Yoshiyuki Sankai at the University of Tsukuba has developed a functional exoskeleton straight out of "Aliens 2". Understandably, the US military's rather interested. Toyota's done the same, as have a few other companies, a side effect of finally getting the hardware/software mix of a 'walking' robot correct.
One goof, taking advantage of the corporate discoveries, actually built a one-man 'walker' with non-functional (but quite dramatic looking) guns. It shuffles, but it's still a functional walker, and looks like something out of Battletech.
Now, it's a matter of a suitable high-density power source so we can ditch the extension cords.
As long as we're going sufficiently out of the box, I think that transportable high power would be sufficient. At worst, we could fire up battlefield area tesla coils for transmission
B-)
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 1:08 am
by Bengaley
And make the soldiers go zappy in the process...?
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 1:15 am
by Wanderwolf
Bengaley wrote:And make the soldiers go zappy in the process...?
<chuckle> Tesla coils only induce current, Bengaley.
As long as the exoframes are properly insulated, with correct Tesla receivers, there should be no trouble at all.
Yours wishing he hadn't even THOUGHT those last seven words,
The wolfish,
Wanderer
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 1:20 am
by TMLutas
Wanderwolf wrote:Bengaley wrote:And make the soldiers go zappy in the process...?
<chuckle> Tesla coils only induce current, Bengaley.
As long as the exoframes are properly insulated, with correct Tesla receivers, there should be no trouble at all.
Yours wishing he hadn't even THOUGHT those last seven words,
The wolfish,
Wanderer
Actually, if you could differentiate it so that your guys are ok and the other side goes zappy, that's an improved area denial weapon over minefields.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 7:00 am
by Squeaky Bunny
Wanderwolf wrote:Bengaley wrote:And make the soldiers go zappy in the process...?
<chuckle> Tesla coils only induce current, Bengaley.
As long as the exoframes are properly insulated, with correct Tesla receivers, there should be no trouble at all.
Yours wishing he hadn't even THOUGHT those last seven words,
The wolfish,
Wanderer
If memory serves me correctly the Tesla coil's output is low current compared to its primary side. A high current output Tesla coil would be like the death ray that he was developing.
The effects of high current look like what happened when someone on PCP messed around with a 16.6 Kv WYE system:
BTW he lived through it.
A Tesla's effects look like
Dr. Megavolt on a Saturday night
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 7:46 am
by The JAM
Brass? I take it aluminium is too weak for that function?
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 2:01 pm
by Bengaley
But.,...but... the zappyness!
Sorry, I'm being silly =D
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 2:53 pm
by Maxgoof
Squeaky Bunny wrote:BTW he lived through it.
I'm sorry to say it, but this has Photoshop Urban Legend written all over it, even after going to the source and reading.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 4:52 pm
by Squeaky Bunny
maxgoof wrote:Squeaky Bunny wrote:BTW he lived through it.
I'm sorry to say it, but this has Photoshop Urban Legend written all over it, even after going to the source and reading.
Snopes has nothing on it and I haven't seen any mention on Darwinawards either. He could survive if the path was right hand/right foot, but guaranteed he lost both limbs as well as a few grey cells.
It doesn't quite have that photoshopped look to me. A flash that bright would have overexposed the film.
Of course if you want to see something
impressive . . .
Sharuuk just loves it!