Army
Gel-filled helmet crushes bullets
by tk7936 on Feb.27, 2009, under Armor, Army
On the face of it a layer of orange jelly may not sound the best way to protect a soldier’s head from high velocity bullets and shrapnel.
But the British Army’s standard-issue combat helmet is set to be upgraded with a liner made from gooey miracle gel, which responds to a sudden impact by locking instantly into a solid form - absorbing huge amounts of energy harmlessly. Read more
Invisible Tanks
by Ben on Nov.02, 2007, under Armor, Army, Invisibility, Military
Nothing new here really at all. This is the Nihonjin or Korean projection technology from ~2003-2005 just adapted to armor. Yawn …
New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence.
In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.
The new technology uses cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto a tank.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490669
He alludes to a metamaterial application towards the end of the article …
“The next stage is to make the tank invisible without them - which is intricate and complicated, but possible.”
Alright then please tell the good people of the UK why you are wasting their money on some soon-to-be defunct projection technology when you should be spending that money on advancing the science of nonreflective metamaterials.
I don’t fuckin’ get it.
Brutal new ‘war on terror’ weapon sucks air out of lungs
by Ben on Aug.24, 2007, under Army, Military, Weapons
Don’t jump to conclusions. The thermobaric weapon utilizes regular munitions that detonate before they hit the target to create a force of air that utterly annihilates anything in the blast radius.
Check this other article out as well.
A new ’super-weapon’ being supplied to British soldiers in Afghanistan employs technology based on the “thermobaric” principle which uses heat and pressure to kill people targeted across a wide air by sucking the air out of lungs and rupturing internal organs.
Russia, China to hold joint military excercise
by Ben on Aug.18, 2007, under Air Force, Army, Military, Politics
Oh, brother.
CHEBARKUL, Russia (Reuters) - Troops from Russia, China and Central Asian states will take part in a joint military exercise on Friday designed to show off their alliance’s increasing power.
MEDUSA
by Ben on Aug.16, 2007, under Army, Direct Energy, Technology
Danger Room carries the full story. MEDUSA is a weapons system designed by the Optima Technology Group. It’s not HEL technology, however, it’s microwaves.
Think V-MADS on crack.
Note: There’s another great story on FP at DR detailing another MEDUSA framework that hyperamplifies sound using sonolaser or saser technology. I remember being in the computer lab in high school and sitting in while an advanced physics class demonstrated the feasibility of this principle. I’ll update this post in a bit with more links and info. In the meantime run over to DR and check their post.
Great work, Ms. Weinberger!
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