BF Evo, future weapons

[Hiromoon]

*pats Voronesh on the head* There there. Don't think the basic trooper gets left out. The Branches of the US Army do things to their own tune. The "fancy" F-22 Air Dominance Fighter is an Air Force project, and is certainly worth the price (in case Canada gets uppity).

The Army's basic infantrymen is currently fully supported with body armor, the latest in hydration, and are getting tools necessary with dealing with the situation.

The Marines have always been the Navy's watchdogs, so having them guard prisoners on their own facilities is just natural.

The National Guard keep getting drawn up and sent out. You might recall the famous picture of a truck with a sign in the window reading 'Two Weeks A Year My Ass!'.

Also, the US Army apparently has exceeded it's recruiting requirements again this year.

 

[xeoran]

If you keep you eye to close to the scope then the recoil will put it through your face not a mistake you'd ever make twice (well maybe you could, if you switched eyes after the first one).
As for rail guns, isn't the other advantage that massive acceleration can be achieved on a fairly thin projectile, current ordnance needing a sabot to give a thin warhead enough of a surface to 'push'? All of which means ammo can take up less space.

Ever hear about the first SA80 scopes? Mounted so high that if you used one in an urban environment you got a face full of windowsill if you tried to fire from cover

:lol:
Thats great design on the SA 80.....! :wink:

No, I put my eye near the scope- so I could see but to avoid recoil. Recoil is very weird the first time it happens to you, you just dont expect it to be as hard as it is.

 

[JoseDominguez]

I believe the US will continue to spend billions on advanced weapons capable of pintpointing targets from orbit and eliminating heavilly armoured tanks and ordinance from massive range.
Even though everyone they'll ever fight will be using tanks that are so old their treads have flairs.


The British army will continue to do the same.


Only in plastic.

 

[derek]

The Picture of the Osprey? In service with the US Marines now.

G'Day

Not quite yet. A news article on the boeing site states the US Air Force has taken delivery of their first production CV-22 (a special operations variant). The marines on the other hand have recently completed operational evaluation on their MV-22 model, so while it has been tested it isn't quite in service yet.

Link to article

Nice to see Hiromoon is still having fantasies over 'jet packs'

(btw: the biggest thing I fired off was a 84mm Carl Gustav)

Cheers

Derek

 

[Hiromoon]

Hey, I love to fly, either in a plane or other. Tis is just one of those ways.... and DARPA agrees with me

 

[Hiromoon]

Hey, I love to fly, either in a plane or other. Tis is just one of those ways.... and DARPA agrees with me

 

[Reaverman]

(btw: the biggest thing I fired off was a 84mm Carl Gustav)

My old Boss fired one of those, he said it was crap at putting a hole on anything. But it was a great way to clear your sinuses :twisted:

 

[BuShips]

While a bit of a stretch for the near future (and also not a weapon), I thought those that hadn't heard might want to ponder this site:

http://www.emdrive.com/

Roger Shawyer is either spending his time on a pipe dream, or if it really works he will just maybe change life as we know it. He claims a reactionless drive is a workable reality, and he says he has a prototype, with a larger full test engine being made. This just happens to violate Newton's laws and conservation of momentum. So, either we have another crazy Brit on our hands :wink: , or the possibility of going to Mars in three months, not nine. Oh, and there was that little thing of making rockets, wings and wheels obsolete... :shock:

http://www.shelleys.demon.co.uk/fdec02em.htm

Who really knows right now, but someone will eventually find out I suppose.

The very slight connection to this thread was to make possible hovering vehicles with an improved version of the resonator, which the Germans have already made.

"Engineers in Germany have created superconducting resonators (for use in particle accelerators) with Q values of several billion, which Shawyer claims would equate to a thrust of 30kN per kilowatt, 'enough to lift a large car'."

The Wiki article is not very optomistic...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Shawyer

 

[Kristovich]

My old Boss fired one of those, he said it was crap at putting a hole on anything. But it was a great way to clear your sinuses :twisted:

I don't think so, why would it even exist outside of Sweden if it was crap at putting holes in stuff. I'm sure there'd be better things to use then. Then again, I've never fired it so I wouldn't know :roll:

 

[Reaverman]

My old Boss fired one of those, he said it was crap at putting a hole on anything. But it was a great way to clear your sinuses :twisted:

I don't think so, why would it even exist outside of Sweden if it was crap at putting holes in stuff. I'm sure there'd be better things to use then. Then again, I've never fired it so I wouldn't know :roll:

Kristovich,

the Carl Gustav was standard British issue during the 70's and 80's. They even used them during the Falklands Conflict in 82, apparently someone sunk an Argentinian attack boat with one (but dont hold me to it)

 

[Tank]

But not a particularly "future weapon" eh?

 

[Hiromoon]

The V-22 Osprey is a future weapon. Especially since they're just now developing a chin mounted gun for it. Apparently someone figured out that the way the V-22 is supposed to fly negates the ability to shoot out of it.

 

[Tank]

The Osprey has been a future weapon for about the last 15 years!! :lol:

 

[Reaverman]

The Osprey has been a future weapon for about the last 15 years!! :lol:

It also was prone to fatal failures (early years). Some of the parts where made from a resin compund, and in one flight. The Osprey had a hydraulic leak, which spewed onto the resin parts. These in turn started to react with the fluid, and the by product was a fire. Unfortunately for the crew, it was in tilt mode and the plane dropped out the sky like a brick. Killing everyone on board!

A couple of the Ospreys where at the Farnborough Air show this year, and they flew right over my house. They dont half, have a distinctive noise with the pitch of those props :wink:

 

[Tank]

Not surprised, the chinook also has a very distinctive signature

 

[Hiromoon]

My favorite was the fact the upped the hydralic pressure without changing the pipes for it.

Effectively, if no one had died during the tests, the Marines probably would have abandoned the V-22 in the development phase.

 

[Reaverman]

Not surprised, the chinook also has a very distinctive signature

Tell me about it, Basingstoke is in the Odiham flight path



<Wokka wokka wokka> at 3 am in the morning, when I am at work

 

[Tank]

3 am? really? You sure its RAF? I thought they only operated in the afternoon? after brunch and high tea :lol:

 

[Reaverman]

3 am? really? You sure its RAF? I thought they only operated in the afternoon? after brunch and high tea :lol:

Trust me, aint nothing else makes that noise :wink:

 

[Kristovich]

Effectively, if no one had died during the tests, the Marines probably would have abandoned the V-22 in the development phase.

And you called us swedes crazy :shock: