'Force field' technology could make US tanks unstoppable

[ABikerSailor]

Soldiers lives matters. Great to see America tries to provide them the best.


'Force field' technology could make US tanks unstoppable

Astonishingly futuristic new tech creates a seemingly invisible, impenetrable, protective bubble around military armored vehicles making enemy attempts to fire at U.S. tanks pretty pointless – those rounds won’t hit the tank, they’ll explode mid-air.

Think of it almost like making a tank smart enough to defend itself. With the upgrade, tanks automatically protect the crew inside and prevent enemy rounds from making contact with the armor.

Within the blink of an eye, this remarkable technology detects the enemy fire, locates it and launches a response that destroys the threat at a safe distance from the vehicle.

It is sort of like a tiny missile defense system used to protect countries– but one designed to ride along with armored vehicles.

RPGs (Rocket Propelled Grenades) and even Anti-Tank Guided Missiles that can slay tanks are stopped mid-air, precisely intercepted and prevented from hitting the U.S. military tank.

Most types of enemy fire will never reach a tank protected with this tech. It will change warfare forever.

Sounds like a more advanced version of reactive armor.

Reactive armor doesn't destroy the fired round. The armor has to be hit by the ordnance first to be useful. This system kills the threat before it gets close to the tank.

No, nothing like reactive armor.

Yeah and?

If the round is destroyed BEFORE it hits the tank, then it is nothing like reactive armor. Period.

 

[night_son]

Soldiers lives matters. Great to see America tries to provide them the best.


'Force field' technology could make US tanks unstoppable

Astonishingly futuristic new tech creates a seemingly invisible, impenetrable, protective bubble around military armored vehicles making enemy attempts to fire at U.S. tanks pretty pointless – those rounds won’t hit the tank, they’ll explode mid-air.

Think of it almost like making a tank smart enough to defend itself. With the upgrade, tanks automatically protect the crew inside and prevent enemy rounds from making contact with the armor.

Within the blink of an eye, this remarkable technology detects the enemy fire, locates it and launches a response that destroys the threat at a safe distance from the vehicle.

It is sort of like a tiny missile defense system used to protect countries– but one designed to ride along with armored vehicles.

RPGs (Rocket Propelled Grenades) and even Anti-Tank Guided Missiles that can slay tanks are stopped mid-air, precisely intercepted and prevented from hitting the U.S. military tank.

Most types of enemy fire will never reach a tank protected with this tech. It will change warfare forever.

Sounds like a more advanced version of reactive armor.

Reactive armor doesn't destroy the fired round. The armor has to be hit by the ordnance first to be useful. This system kills the threat before it gets close to the tank.

No, nothing like reactive armor.

Yeah and?

If the round is destroyed BEFORE it hits the tank, then it is nothing like reactive armor. Period.

The closest thing we've had to this system is smoke. Vehicle launched smoke grenades in brigade formation make one hell of a screen but stop nothing. Reactive armor means a hit--and you don't want that when you're huddled down in the back, particularly with the old Halon systems that used to trip randomly. When you're buttoned up, that can be real bad. So can molten gas burning through to the inside from enemy man portable warheads.

 

[westwall]

Can it stop hyper sonic projectiles, or missiles? Armor isn't the only technology that is advancing...

It will stop any incoming projectile (at least in theory). Sonic weapons are not affected.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Soldiers lives matters. Great to see America tries to provide them the best.


'Force field' technology could make US tanks unstoppable

Astonishingly futuristic new tech creates a seemingly invisible, impenetrable, protective bubble around military armored vehicles making enemy attempts to fire at U.S. tanks pretty pointless – those rounds won’t hit the tank, they’ll explode mid-air.

Think of it almost like making a tank smart enough to defend itself. With the upgrade, tanks automatically protect the crew inside and prevent enemy rounds from making contact with the armor.

Within the blink of an eye, this remarkable technology detects the enemy fire, locates it and launches a response that destroys the threat at a safe distance from the vehicle.

It is sort of like a tiny missile defense system used to protect countries– but one designed to ride along with armored vehicles.

RPGs (Rocket Propelled Grenades) and even Anti-Tank Guided Missiles that can slay tanks are stopped mid-air, precisely intercepted and prevented from hitting the U.S. military tank.

Most types of enemy fire will never reach a tank protected with this tech. It will change warfare forever.

Sounds like a more advanced version of reactive armor.

Reactive armor doesn't destroy the fired round. The armor has to be hit by the ordnance first to be useful. This system kills the threat before it gets close to the tank.

No, nothing like reactive armor.

Yeah and?

If the round is destroyed BEFORE it hits the tank, then it is nothing like reactive armor. Period.

It reacts but at a distance rather than upon impact.
So yeah it's a more advanced reactive armor.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Soldiers lives matters. Great to see America tries to provide them the best.


'Force field' technology could make US tanks unstoppable

Astonishingly futuristic new tech creates a seemingly invisible, impenetrable, protective bubble around military armored vehicles making enemy attempts to fire at U.S. tanks pretty pointless – those rounds won’t hit the tank, they’ll explode mid-air.

Think of it almost like making a tank smart enough to defend itself. With the upgrade, tanks automatically protect the crew inside and prevent enemy rounds from making contact with the armor.

Within the blink of an eye, this remarkable technology detects the enemy fire, locates it and launches a response that destroys the threat at a safe distance from the vehicle.

It is sort of like a tiny missile defense system used to protect countries– but one designed to ride along with armored vehicles.

RPGs (Rocket Propelled Grenades) and even Anti-Tank Guided Missiles that can slay tanks are stopped mid-air, precisely intercepted and prevented from hitting the U.S. military tank.

Most types of enemy fire will never reach a tank protected with this tech. It will change warfare forever.

Sounds like a more advanced version of reactive armor.

Reactive armor doesn't destroy the fired round. The armor has to be hit by the ordnance first to be useful. This system kills the threat before it gets close to the tank.

No, nothing like reactive armor.

Yeah and?

If the round is destroyed BEFORE it hits the tank, then it is nothing like reactive armor. Period.

I'd say it's more like the Phalanx system than anything else.

 

[Crepitus]

Soldiers lives matters. Great to see America tries to provide them the best.


'Force field' technology could make US tanks unstoppable

Astonishingly futuristic new tech creates a seemingly invisible, impenetrable, protective bubble around military armored vehicles making enemy attempts to fire at U.S. tanks pretty pointless – those rounds won’t hit the tank, they’ll explode mid-air.

Think of it almost like making a tank smart enough to defend itself. With the upgrade, tanks automatically protect the crew inside and prevent enemy rounds from making contact with the armor.

Within the blink of an eye, this remarkable technology detects the enemy fire, locates it and launches a response that destroys the threat at a safe distance from the vehicle.

It is sort of like a tiny missile defense system used to protect countries– but one designed to ride along with armored vehicles.

RPGs (Rocket Propelled Grenades) and even Anti-Tank Guided Missiles that can slay tanks are stopped mid-air, precisely intercepted and prevented from hitting the U.S. military tank.

Most types of enemy fire will never reach a tank protected with this tech. It will change warfare forever.

Day late and a dollar short.

the Chinese have already deployed their version.

 

[DrainBamage]

The answer was zero tanks.

Sigh. Here is a link to information on a single battle in Iraq where USA lost four tanks: Battle of Medina Ridge - Wikipedia

"TF 1–37 suffered the loss of four M1A1 tanks destroyed and six personnel wounded in action"

Do you know what the definition of "zero" is when you say no M-1 tanks were lost?

If a war breaks out against China or Russia, nukes would be used. That’s why MAD worked, and we never went to war against the USSR.

Well this would be completely different than your previous statement about the next war, you've now backtracked into a completely different scenario of a war with certain countries as opposed the ones we've actually been having wars with. Bottom line = the actual conflicts we've been in over the past whatever decades have involved tanks, and not nukes.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

China, Russia, N.Korea and the entire Middle East just collectively shit their pants. Kewel stuff!

Why? It won’t stop any nukes, which are sure to be used if it comes to war.

Maybe, but I doubt it. If the first nuke dropped in war was dropped to end WW2, why hasn’t it been used since? There have been more tanks destroyed in combat since WW2 than nukes dropped.

 

[harmonica]

there has always been the ''battle'' between ''armor'' and anti-armor
there will be someone/company/etc trying to over ride any ''unstoppable''' armor
..

 

[DrainBamage]

I wonder how these types of systems do against the more advanced antitank weapons that do a swoop & dive?

For example USA's Javelin doesn't fly like a TOW directly at the target but rather climbs to 150 meters then uses imaging infrared seeker to dive down from above and take advantage of the much weaker armor on the top part of tanks. I'm not sure the sensors on systems like this would pick up anything coming from above, and if even if they could would they be able to aim at it.

 

[westwall]

I wonder how these types of systems do against the more advanced antitank weapons that do a swoop & dive?

For example USA's Javelin doesn't fly like a TOW directly at the target but rather climbs to 150 meters then uses imaging infrared seeker to dive down from above and take advantage of the much weaker armor on the top part of tanks. I'm not sure the sensors on systems like this would pick up anything coming from above, and if even if they could would they be able to aim at it.

The reason why they use an explosively formed projectile is because the response is in milliseconds. The radar tracks the incoming and then only fires the weapon when it is appropriate. It is not a stand off defense weapon, it is a close in system. It will even work on RPG's fired from close range in a MOUT environment.

 

[DrainBamage]

The reason why they use an explosively formed projectile is because the response is in milliseconds. The radar tracks the incoming and then only fires the weapon when it is appropriate. It is not a stand off defense weapon, it is a close in system. It will even work on RPG's fired from close range in a MOUT environment.

Clearly it's a close in system and I think it's safe to say it was designed with RPGs in mind given Israel's common exposure to asymmetrical warfare.

What I'm wondering is given the system's emphasis on side protection, do the defensive systems even have a firing arc that could engage a weapon coming almost straight down like a Javelin? On videos of Javelins hitting targets it looks like it would actually go in the tank commander's hatch if left open.

 

[westwall]

The reason why they use an explosively formed projectile is because the response is in milliseconds. The radar tracks the incoming and then only fires the weapon when it is appropriate. It is not a stand off defense weapon, it is a close in system. It will even work on RPG's fired from close range in a MOUT environment.

Clearly it's a close in system and I think it's safe to say it was designed with RPGs in mind given Israel's common exposure to asymmetrical warfare.

What I'm wondering is given the system's emphasis on side protection, do the defensive systems even have a firing arc that could engage a weapon coming almost straight down like a Javelin? On videos of Javelins hitting targets it looks like it would actually go in the tank commander's hatch if left open.

Yep. They are a regional system. Each weapon covers a particular arc.

 

[Pilot1]

Today's battlefield is run by technology, and satellite communication. Tanks, ships, planes, infantry, artillery, etc are all linked to provide situational awareness, and status. My concern is that a tech advanced enemy's first task will be to take out this technology with EMP's and other means. An impenetrable tanks is pretty worthless if it is deaf, dumb, and blind. Yes, I know the military has considered this, and has countermeasure, but will they all work in combat. I hope we never find out.