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Electric Armor Tested For Light Armored Vehicles
joncrie writes "The Telegraph is reporting that British MoD scientists are now testing a new electric armor to protect light armored vehicles against RPGs.
The new electric armour is made up of a highly-charged capacitor that is connected to two separate metal plates on the tank's exterior. When an RPG warhead fires its jet of molten copper, it penetrates both the outer plate and the insulation of the inner plate. This makes a connection and thousands of amps of electricity vaporises most of the molten copper. The rest of the copper is dispersed harmlessly against the vehicle's hull. The initial development was mentioned previously."
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MICHAEL SUCKS!
Not only are the editors dumb, but so are the submitters.
I love all the submitters who scrape stories from other sites, just so they can get an ego boost by having their submission put on the front page.
This submitter probably read fark today, saw the "cool" article, and googled for a different article so it would look like he was the sherlock who discovered it, and didn't rip it from somewhere else.
Good try, buddy, but you lose. You didn't even get a CURRENT story!
So so sad. But I guess you gotta have something to look forward to while you decide if tonight is REALLY going to be the night that you go out from your parents basement and try to talk to girls in the bars. Well, I guess you'd rather scrape stories from other news posting sites instead.
Have fun you social rejects and shitty story submitters. My turds could do better.
Let's develop our military science to such a level that the third world countries will never ever have any chance of meeting us on fair terms. It's the all-powerful alien race vs. human scenario played out in our world.
So long live the slaves in the third world nations. They'll work for us. They'll give us the raw materials like in the good old colonial days. If they'll rebel... well, you know what. We'll just shock-and-awe them.
Furthermore, when will happen when the inevitable global warming (US has refused to participate in any attempt to curb CO2 emissions) causes most of the world's population to run out of drinkable water? The desperate masses will hit EU and American borders and what are we going to do? Shoot the hell out of them, of course. Like good nazis.
I'm happy that I'm in a position to sabotage all our "war" efforts when that happens. I'm highly educated, an officer in the reserves and I have very good contacts in all the important places.
I wonder if there are any non military useages of the idea. Perhaps in a storm shelter? Not sure.
Anyway, here is my translation from a couple of paragraphs in the story,as if the story was written from some poor peasants point of view, as opposed to joe stockbroker sipping latte and reading the latest mil industrial complex conglomerate quotes at his local "axis of profits, nothing personal it's just business" coffee house
"With the easy availability of RPG-7 rocket launchers-thank god we have at least something to defend our village with- "it only takes one individual on, say, a rooftop in a village to cause major damage or destroy passing armoured vehicles", he said.-Man, those tanks and soldiers from BigNation.Com, Inc. suck the big one. They come in here, invade, kill the people, every one of us is called a terrorist, they drive their tanks over our crops causing famine, smash our huts down, shoot all the men they can find, rape our wives and daughters then sit around and torture the remnants for sport. This is dismal. Glad I scraped up enough dough to get me an RPG. It's not much but it might stop them. Why don't they stay in their own country anyway? Oh ya, I forgot, we have oil/tin/gold/diamonds/whatever, and they want it, and they say our current dictator is worse than their dictator, so that makes us all terrorists. Silly me, how could I forget....
"But the use of electric armour, which will protect against all shaped-charge warheads including artillery and tank shells, would reduce the threat to zero."--Oh crap! Now, we have nothing to stop those invaders with! I guess we lose, might as well get out the black boot polish and rags and beg for some pennies from the nice soldier guys, when they get done with our wives and daughters that is. In the mean time I'll get back to whittling a wooden leg for one of my kids who was unfortunately a "collateral damage" statistic. I hope the new dictator the soldiers appoint to be our ruler will be better than the last one they appointed 10 years ago.
Are they uniformed? If not: terrorist.
common sense: noun
What those who are ignorant of the subject matter think; usually wrong.
The 19th month of 2002--Is that July of 2003, or what???