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Posted by Gwil on Sun Apr 16th at 6:11pm 2006

If this isn't real then Easter is ruined. How cool is this:

http://media2.foxnews.com/040606/040606_fr_tobin_300.swf

Not sure on the size Orph - fairly big? Definately worth a watch though. Here's some more info on it:

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




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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 16th at 6:13pm 2006

How big?

/me downloads, or begins to.





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Posted by rival on Sun Apr 16th at 6:31pm 2006

pretty amazing. it only describes the mechanism as a 'beam of fragments'
wish there was more info on how it works, might google it.


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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 16th at 7:24pm 2006

13 megs and.. Wowzers.

That seems even better than the phalanx. And thats one cool defensive weapon in itself.





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Posted by Hugh on Sun Apr 16th at 9:28pm 2006

Read about this one in Popular Science a while ago, it's pretty sweet stuff. : >


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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Mon Apr 17th at 1:39am 2006

cool tech, lame analogy though. It's a point defense system :P

The more 'force field' like development was that electrical charge that dissipated rounds on contact... footage from that showed this vehicle just shrugging off blast after blast.


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Posted by rival on Mon Apr 17th at 1:42am 2006

? quoting KungFuSquirrel
cool tech, lame analogy though. It's a point defense system

The more 'force field' like development was that electrical charge that dissipated rounds on contact... footage from that showed this vehicle just shrugging off blast after blast.

do you have a link? i want to see this!




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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Mon Apr 17th at 1:50am 2006

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,54641,00.html

Well, I found the old write-up, at least. Old being the key word.

No idea what the current status is; I had no idea it was from that long ago.


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Posted by Dr Brasso on Mon Apr 17th at 2:12am 2006

now if they could just teach navy cooks to cook a good steak...

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Posted by reaper47 on Mon Apr 17th at 9:33am 2006

This reminds me about an article I once read about a suit that reflects the light around it in way it makes the wearer invisible (Predator anyone?). I wonder if this is just a prototype idea or if it already works in the field?



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Posted by MisterBister on Mon Apr 17th at 10:21am 2006

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This reminds me about an article I once read about a suit that reflects the light around it in way it makes the wearer invisible (Predator anyone?). I wonder if this is just a prototype idea or if it already works in the field?


Youre talking about this one?

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Posted by reaper47 on Mon Apr 17th at 10:39am 2006

? quote:

? quote:
This reminds me about an article I once read about a suit that reflects the light around it in way it makes the wearer invisible (Predator anyone?). I wonder if this is just a prototype idea or if it already works in the field?


Youre talking about this one?

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uncoolcentral.com/spoofs

.... hmmmm

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/02/07/japan.invisible.ap/



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Posted by Crono on Mon Apr 17th at 11:45am 2006

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.... hmmmm

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/02/07/japan.invisible.ap/


So, who wrote that article? Oh that's right, CNN likes to not put names on things that aren't true.

I agree with KFS. The explanation is far exaggerated. It's still a cool piece of work. However, taking how rudimentary it is, it's almost dumbfounding as to why it isn't already in use. I can only assume it isn't very reliable. Which would make sense.


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