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Nanotech Paints For Military
pmacwill wrote to us with a recent article on Pennet in regards to the U.S. military's proposed use of nanotech paints. Actually, it goes beyond proposal -- and beyond paint, as it would allow vehicles to change camo patterns very easily, and would also repair micro-cracks and fractures without the need for service.
I'm waiting for nanotech tattoo ink. Illustrated Man, here we come.
Needless to say, I was rather befuddled on the benefits of really small pants to the Army.
Now I can run red-lights! And you'll never see me!!! Muahahaa!
Why the army would want microscopic pants is beyond me..
It's the dream of every geek and habitual speeder out there: car paint jobs that change at the tap of a button.
;-)
If the paint is active as well, I'd like to see how well it does combating rust 24/7.
Imagine...driving along and you decide you want a red car...or maybe a black car...or how about zebra stripes.
Or maybe a lot of huge rust spots, for when you're asking for money
...
Of course, there's always the danger than an enemy might be able to "hack" the smart paints by zapping vehicles with electrical impulses of their own.
"What's going on, Sarge? The color of our tank just changed to hot pink! Mayday! Mayday!"
but in a few years, it'll trickle into the main stream...
In a few years? I bet we see spammers selling nanotech paint within a few weeks!
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
If they're electrically powered, then, yes, there'd be EM radiation.
If they're chemically powered, the only people who could see them would be environmentalists.
What's this Submit thingy do?
Soon we will have transformer type vehicules that I have dreamed about
Of course, if these machines could be hacked, just imagine all the fun and mayhem that could be caused...
"Soldier, look at your tank, that's not camoflauge!"
soldier turns and reads on the now hot pink armour: "you've been H4x0red by Cowboy Neal"
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away" -Tom Waits
Heaven help the crew of the first tank to have its nano-tech coating go BSOD.
Of course...I believe the Army has the same motto...save for the global search and replace of Green for Gray
duct tape and cuddlefish
Okay...four but who's counting?
iastor
"Remember your weapon was made by the lowest bidder."
And suddenly the expression "It's as fun as watching paint dry" takes on a whole new meaning.
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
My God, people, *we* *have* *gone* *too* *far*.
the only problem is getting that paintbrush in those little hard to reach areas - like the heart.
"[...] it shouldn't be that difficult," she says.
Famous last words.
Well, the Navy's current favourite paint-replacement is the applique, basically like a plastic wallpaper for planes and ships. Pretty easy to apply, very good weight advantages (paint can account for 800 lbs. on an average fighter because of all the repaints). 'Course, they haven't figured out how to get it off completely yet...the last I saw the scheme was to use lasers and dry ice to alternately heat and cool the applique until it basically flaked off.
Humph. Lasers and dry ice. Throw in a couple of dancers and you could sell tickets."I am sure I put it somewhere over here." CLUNK! "Ohw!"
Could this possibly be true or just a hyper-inflated figure to help sell/make the idea of bleeding-edge tech coatings seem realistic and feasible?
I mean, come on... $2 billion a year just for painting and paint removal? What are they doing? Hiring only the most intelligent and beautiful virginal labourers to paint tanks with paint made from elements only found in asteroids, using fine, #10 ultra-sable brushes, gently scraping paint off with custom made, solid gold, diamond tipped scrapers?
jeez...
RTFM; please, I beg you.
I can't believe you'd think of cars... You've obviously never had your wife do any painting.
I'd love to just have all the woodwork looking like wood again at the touch of a button.
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
No, I never used Al Gore. They should have worked on him some more before releasing him.
No, in the Army we only salute people that we want snipers to hit. And it seems that people who want salutes are the ones we already want to salute...
I spent a year in Iraq looking for WMD and all I found was this lousy sig.
magine connecting the nontech-based paint job to the vehicle's speedometer. As the vehicle moves, the camo pattern could scroll at the same speed in the opposite direction. In the proper environment, this could make the vehicle difficult to spot when moving, since the observer's eyes would be presented with data not normally present in nature.
Screw that, make my car jet black and as i speed up, make all the leading edges start to glow like an SR71 plane (or shuttle on re-entry).....
How cool would that be????
Burma?
perhaps the best part about it is that it sounds suspiciously similar to the "SEP" (Somebody Elses' Problem) field from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Oooo. Invisible paint. For billions of dollars.
Can I sell anyone an $800 hammer before some dumb little kid says, "Look Mommy! That tank isn't wearing any paint!"
~Idarubicin