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Drool- check out this new armour protection system! 

www.pistolwimp.com/media/52890/

Wow.

Scary. For some reason I want to drive a tank now.

Give mole-mortars a little more value.

It's supposedly some kind of beam of fragments, kind of like radar guided buckshot. I guess.

That Terrorist Dude that shot the RPG from the hip is hardcore. You could be proud to wear that guy's skull on your belt.

That's pretty awesome.  I wonder how cost-effective something like that would be in the long run.

WTF? WTF? WTF?

How does it work? Form the video I gather it creates a CGI dome over your tank...

Is it an AGEIS type thing? What is it?

 

EDIT here we go

http://www.defense-update.com/products/t/trophy.htm

Uses interceptor missiles.  And the US army is passing on it for their own system.

I'm not convinced. It looks suspiciously like magic to me.

Posted By Jester on 11/01/2006 8:45 PM
I'm not convinced. It looks suspiciously like magic to me.

Which is why I AM convinced.

He's a Witch!!

He's which?

Sandwich.

pre-energy Shields for teh win!

All it is is an advanced radar detection system that guides a 'gun' that fires a cloud of slugs at the incomming target forcing it to detonate early. It's rad, but it isn't a shield.

I want one in the worst way for my wife's truck.  Now when she backs into a boat or something it'll just blow away the boat before she hits it.

It's a gun? Bizarre. I thought it was some sort of reactive armor plating that could be rigged to blow at certain points that at a computer would tell it to. If they've got a gun that can track and shoot that fast, damn.

Wow. Can imagine a constellation of snafus that would lead to an individual trooper
approaching a tank at high speed and then shredded to bits by an automated misfire?

The animation does look like aggressive reactive armor vs. some sort of gun. Maybe the new RRAWMI armor acronym (REALLY REALLY REACTIVE ARMOR WE MEAN IT)

Nope, sorry. It's magic. They decorate the inside with amulets against Lillith, tie red strings around the barrel of the gun, and paint Ezekiel 1 around the engine block.

Damn voodoo kabbalaists.

Posted By syr8766 on 11/02/2006 7:30 AM
Nope, sorry. It's magic. They decorate the inside with amulets against Lillith, tie red strings around the barrel of the gun, and paint Ezekiel 1 around the engine block.

And if a Rabbi said it, well, by _____, it has to be true!

The thing is that it doesn't have to track or aim very fast, because it shoots a massive cloud of crap at the incomming object. I recall a better video of the device in action but I can't remember where I've seen it.

Posted By Hellfury on 11/02/2006 7:56 AM
Damn voodoo kabbalaists.

You need to stop drinking the mikvah water, Patrick.  Talmuduu, while quite powerful, involves too much preperation to be an effective battlefield weapon.  Reverse-engineered Annunaki tech is much better, as its use in the Battle of Hammurabi's Stair and the Third Lunar War effectively showed.  

They had this in Battletech, at the same time as the Clan tech came out. 3050? A defensive system that shot down incoming missiles.

Yep, and I think the 3050 Warhammer came with it standard.

Yeah, Battletech had the AMS (anti-missile system) and the LAMS (laser anti-missile system). The AMS was IS, while the LAMS was Clan... initially, at least.

I feel bad for the poor PVT that's gonna have to PMCS it every monday.

This really isn't anything too new. The French LeClerc II tank already has something very similar if I recall correctly. The Stryker vehicles are supposed to get it. Right now they have the RPG cage which works pretty well.

He said Trophy about 100 times I must buy it no matter what it is.

Posted By Sgt_Scruffy on 11/05/2006 10:06 AM
This really isn't anything too new. The French LeClerc II tank already has something very similar if I recall correctly. The Stryker vehicles are supposed to get it. Right now they have the RPG cage which works pretty well.

You're misinterpreting the French LeClerc schematic there S Scruffy.  It doesn't say "actively defeats incoming attack vectors."  Translated properly its "actively surrenders to incoming attack vectors."  

Russians been working and fielding land based anti-missile system(s) before anyone else got the idea. Sea based anti-missile systems been around even longer.

Inherent problem with the systems is they tend to turn AT munition into anti-personnal, light armor munitions. Making it very unsafe for supporting infantry to cover them and vice versa, nevermind exposed noncombantants in urban evironments. Seacondary problem is the need to reload them periodally, hence the threat of the AT crews expending cheaper older AT munitions while saving the better more expensive AT munitions for when the reloading is taking place. Or do missile/RCL/rocket swarms to overwhelm the defenses, which have happened repeatedly in the past.