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Ukraine's Military Wants To Use the HoloLens For Its Tanks (ubergizmo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ubergizmo: Microsoft's HoloLens has so far been positioned as a device for gaming. However it seems that over in the Ukraine, they believe that the technology has use in the military as well, particularly by tank commanders. Given that a tank is more or less fully sealed, it means that looking around isn't quite as easy. Usually this is achieved by mounting cameras on the vehicle with the images projected inside the tank, but with the HoloLens, it will make it easier. Created by Limpid Armor, the HoloLens-enabled helmet will be dubbed the Circular Review System. The video feeds that are gathered from the cameras outside of the tank will then be stitched together and sent to the headset, thus allowing the wearer to see around the vehicle. Not only will this allow them to have a better view, but apparently the helmet will also let the wearer tag enemy and friendly soldiers, and also designate targets and send information back to the commander.
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What on earth makes you think the cameras don't use wires that go into the tank?
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Why wouldn't they simply hardwire everything? I'm sure the tank already has a sophisticated network of electronics.
Yeah, they probably won't use Wifi and a Signal would be hard to maintain even from a few inches away. That aside, did you ever notice that tanks lack wired gear hanging outside? Don't you think there is a reason for this feat of Engineering not to have wired components hanging outside? 60-75tons of metal bouncing around over and through tough terrain should immediately give you a clue why nobody uses any such technology.
US vehicles using cameras have them built in to the armor design, not added after the fact. Drilling holes in armor is a really dumb idea, and leads to weak spots.
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Tanks typically have a "Commander" position to go along with the gunner, driver, loader(s) (for tanks without an autoloader).
Ukraine is very poor. Sure, they saved some money when they stiffed Russia for their gas bill, but not enough to be able to spend on frivolous things.
How much would you bet that any work done to develop this is paid for by U.S. tax dollars so that it can all be funneled back to some big defense contractor? Probably at many times the cost of off-the-shelf HoloLenses. All justified because it has to be customized and ruggedized.
Tank commander (inside the tank). And if the tanks have encrypted communications with field command, it'd be there regardless of whether there are cameras on the tank,
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Using digital device of company headquartered in country of potential enemy is not wise
why do they still need people in the tank?
Well that's one strategy the Russians could use. Alternatively, they might just try having 50 times as much of everything as whoever they're fighting.
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By far the best thing about it was it's ability to rapidly construct meshes of the space you're in and track head movements so that holograms displayed in the scene remain stable as you move your head and move around. It seems to me, almost none of those strengths come to play when you're sitting in chair/cockpit of a tank. I wouldn't consider the IMU and transparent OLED screens to be the biggest differentiators of the HoloLens. Also, the viewing angle of the screens sucks balls and is by far the most limiting aspect of the HoloLens experience. Furthermore, the HoloLens is a stand-alone Windows 10 machine which limits the amount of processing power available. Again, if you're seated in a tank then you don't need a cordless experience along with all the handicaps that entails.
In the news today, Ukraine loses war while tanks apply updates....
Didn't think that Russia made the hololens.
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No, I don't think everyone gets new things off the assembly line. Not only am I an Army Vet, I spent 10 years building the computer systems used to design, engineer, and upgrade most US Military vehicles. The Bradley had built in vision systems, you would not hang a go-pro off the side to replace it. You hung crap off the side, but nothing was mission critical because you know what happens to vehicles in normal run mode let alone combat. The Ukrainian military is running mostly T72s and some T80s. You are not going to drill holes in the tank and hang homemade gear on it.
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The only T-72s Ukraine uses are these that were actually sold to some African country but were never delivered. The ukrainian tank factories only can maintain T-64 and the diesel version of T-80 because it is what they used to manufacture in the soviet times. T-72 is being built in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. This was actually the proof of Russian military helping the separatists - they have used several T-72B3, which Ukraine never had. Ukraine used to have thousands of T-72 in 1991 (older versions) , but because of the aforementioned maintenance issues (they cannot manufacture the T-72 engines and autoloaders) the ones that were still good were sold, a few of them were downgraded with T-64 engines and also mostly sold, and the rest still rusts on their tank graveyards.
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their other potential enemy, whose intelligence service already has meddled in their government causing civil war and other huge problems
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