Re: [DS2,SG2] Future Tank

Brian Bell <bkb@beol.net> wrote:
>I found this article about Britain's proposed tank design.
>It has plastic armor, adaptive coloring, stealth, a gauss cannon,
>runs on batteries, and has defensive screens!

>>The London Sunday Times wrote:
>>Even if the tank is detected, it should prove hard to destroy.
>>Any missile would first have to overcome
>>an electromagnetic force field.
    A Star Trek/Star Wars/Full Thrust screen? Not so, just bad word
choice
or poor reporting, as we read further...

>>Its powerful pulses would disable enemy electronics and
>>detonate missiles well before impact.
    Sounds like directed EMP pulses, or, more likely, ECM. Any other
opinions?

>>The tank's armament would also be formidable,
>>including missiles and a large gun.
>>This would fire conventional explosive shells,
>>but accelerate them to even higher velocities with
>>an electromagnetic pulse - enhancing accuracy
>>and increasing the range.
    Electromagnetic rail gun or coil gun, prototype MDC, but definitely
not
EMP.

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