thought yall would like to see this video of an active counter measure for armored vehicles. Pretty neat concept.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=768_1222115228
HH
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=768_1222115228
HH
Maybe I'm an idiot, but I'm not sure what I'm looking at, or its intended purpose.
This is a troll right?Presumably there is some sort of sensor that will pick up an incoming RPG round. Then this thing pops up a cannister which explodes towards the incoming round, destroying it before it hits the tank. You spend $500,000 to stop a $50 RPG round. Then some protester throws a rock at your track and the thingee goes Skynet on him, turning the protester into mulch along with the twenty people in the crowd next to him so when the real bad guys show up and start squirting real RPGs at you, you've already used up all your $500,000 anti-RPG gizmos.
Apple = always the pessimist. A pessimist is what optimists call realists.
Honestly, every seen those tanks driving around that have those "packages" all over them? That is reactive armor, basically it is the same concept.
Maybe I'm an idiot, but I'm not sure what I'm looking at, or its intended purpose.
Can somebody 'splain it to me?
Presumably there is some sort of sensor that will pick up an incoming RPG round. Then this thing pops up a cannister which explodes towards the incoming round, destroying it before it hits the tank. You spend $500,000 to stop a $50 RPG round. Then some protester throws a rock at your track and the thingee goes Skynet on him, turning the protester into mulch along with the twenty people in the crowd next to him so when the real bad guys show up and start squirting real RPGs at you, you've already used up all your $500,000 anti-RPG gizmos.
Apple = always the pessimist. A pessimist is what optimists call realists.
rocks and other small projectiles traveling at comparatively low velocities won't be identified as threats because low mass low velocity objects are not as easily picked up by electronically scanned array radar and even if they were there would be clear thresholds for threats.
Yeah tell that to the south African AA crew who had the gun next to theirs lock onto their gun and empty it's mags into them. I think 12 people died. And that was a system that isn't even designed to to attack targets on the ground.
Like the Navy's Phalanx CIWS, the system here can undoubtedly be turned off or set to lower-threat modes, and I'm sure you can also set a minimum velocity threshold for when it is enabled.Presumably there is some sort of sensor that will pick up an incoming RPG round. Then this thing pops up a cannister which explodes towards the incoming round, destroying it before it hits the tank. You spend $500,000 to stop a $50 RPG round. Then some protester throws a rock at your track and the thingee goes Skynet on him, turning the protester into mulch along with the twenty people in the crowd next to him so when the real bad guys show up and start squirting real RPGs at you, you've already used up all your $500,000 anti-RPG gizmos.
Tell that to the next president when he starts looking for ways to cut the budget.It really doesn't matter a whole lot what the system costs.