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Re: Tanks or Power Armor
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:50:58 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Ryan Wood wrote:
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I don’t know jack about real-world tank design and specifications, and
haven’t given much thought to potential powersuit concepts, but this has been
a very cool discussion to read all day. I certainly see a place for tanks in
the future, as they’ve proven their worth in wars since their creation. When
hover technology is improved in the future, I’m not sure we’ll see tanks
floating above the ground, since I imagine the recoil of weaponry would send
them flying backwards for some distance. Maybe there’s some kind of braking
involved for hover vehicles?
--Ry
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I suspect that if we develop a technology that can manipulate gravity enough to
hold a tank off the ground (I really don’t think the fan and skirt design would
be practical in battle), then surely it would also be able to absorb or
counteract any amount of recoil. In fact, the same technology could conceivably
be used to hurl the projectile itself, negating the need for chemical explosions
altogether.
As for the future of combat technology, I hold out hope that we can put all
these petty squabbles behind us and learn to get along. Not very much hope, but
I hold it nonetheless.
Apart from that, it should be remembered that superior technology does not
necesarily make a superior military. Knowing the enemy, and developing an
appropriate strategy will always be paramount. Rushing in headlong, all guns
blazing might look good on television, but it achieves nothing but killing and
hurting a lot of people needlessly, and that is not what war is about.
Cheers,
Allister
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| (...) That's the idea behind gauss weapons--railguns and the like. Ostensibly they also make ammunition lighter because they do away with the propellant charge, and that loss of weight is made up for in the higher velocity of the projectile. (...) (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Possibly. Or we could even develop energy-based weapons. We might also find that even if we can develop the technology required to make hovertanks a feasible concept that it's still more economic and reliable to go with the more mundane (...) (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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