Force fields are real and about to be deployed in Iraq

[mercanucaribe]

FORCE FIELD MY ASS. It's a countermeasure. Faux News can go to hell.

 

[TheTony]

Yes, it's been beaten and beaten again...

This is as much a "force field" as much as a patriot missile. It's simply meant to intercept and detonate RPGs and the like before they get close enough to pierce armor. The only field involved in it is the radius of the radar used to sense incoming targets. Calling it a forcefield is definitely a cheap attempt to make the story palatable, and grossly exaggerates the capabilities of the technology. When you realize it's not really a forcefield, the limitations they mentioned in the story are only obvious.

Nonetheless, it's interesting and destined to save lives of the enlisted.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox

Originally posted by: Keego
I need a force field to keep all of the men off of me.

Or a moderator to keep you off of us.

hahahahah nice.

 

[JDrake]

I hated force fields in T2

 

[everman]

Supposedly 3M accidentally made an electrostatic force field in one of their manufacturing plants. search for "3M electrostatic force field" and you find some stuff. This was several years ago, and a complete accident.

 

[Harabec]

From Wikipedia.

 

[Strk]

As others have said, it simply looks like a new step in reactive armor for RPGs.

 

[l Xes l]

hmm...

 

[Beige]

I am sure you were all hoping to see some type of thing like in starwars eps 1 and were dissapointed. But hell this is better than nothing.

Only thing here that i disliked was the fact that I had gotten excited over something less.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: cyclohexane
coming from fox news, seems somewhat unreliable

Yep, NPR rulez.😎

 

[vshah]

sort of along the same lines...what movie was it in that some planes fired missles at an aircraft carrier, which unloaded some super fast machine gun type tracer ammo on them and took them out of the air? i've been looking for that clip for a while 🙁

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: jadinolf

Originally posted by: cyclohexane
coming from fox news, seems somewhat unreliable

Yep, NPR rulez.😎

Typical NPR listener, who spells rules with a z. :roll:

 

[Kilgor]

Originally posted by: vshah
sort of along the same lines...what movie was it in that some planes fired missles at an aircraft carrier, which unloaded some super fast machine gun type tracer ammo on them and took them out of the air? i've been looking for that clip for a while 🙁

I think thats the Phalanx(CIWS).

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
FORCE FIELD MY ASS. It's a countermeasure. Faux News can go to hell.

yeah...looks like some onery little prick had himself some liberties with name conventions

 

[sponge008]

Well, you see, FOX news listeners react much better to a "force field". You know, "weyall, with super dooper technoalagay like dis force-feeyald, we can cetch us more of dem terrrrorists."

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: everman
Supposedly 3M accidentally made an electrostatic force field in one of their manufacturing plants. search for "3M electrostatic force field" and you find some stuff. This was several years ago, and a complete accident.

weird 😛

Nate

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: sponge008
Well, you see, FOX news listeners react much better to a "force field". You know, "weyall, with super dooper technoalagay like dis force-feeyald, we can cetch us more of dem terrrrorists."

Is that an impresination of Hannity or that here fella' Colmes...


<--never watches CNN, FOXNEWS or MSNBC.


EVER.

 

[RCN]

Originally posted by: vshah
sort of along the same lines...what movie was it in that some planes fired missles at an aircraft carrier, which unloaded some super fast machine gun type tracer ammo on them and took them out of the air? i've been looking for that clip for a while 🙁

Phalanx....

use in fiction

Might help you figure out which movie

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: NTB

Originally posted by: everman
Supposedly 3M accidentally made an electrostatic force field in one of their manufacturing plants. search for "3M electrostatic force field" and you find some stuff. This was several years ago, and a complete accident.

weird 😛

Nate

Cool😛

We need to stickie that in Highly technical😉

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: NTB

Originally posted by: everman
Supposedly 3M accidentally made an electrostatic force field in one of their manufacturing plants. search for "3M electrostatic force field" and you find some stuff. This was several years ago, and a complete accident.

weird 😛

Nate

Cool😛

We need to stickie that in Highly technical😉

Where did you hear about that? I don't remember ever having heard anything about it.

Nate

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
looks like jsut a miniture patriot system but with radar....

More like Phalanx CIWS.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/weaps/mk-15.htm

 

[everman]

That article is from about 10 yrs ago, who knows what might have come out of it since then... 😀

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: NTB

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: NTB

Originally posted by: everman
Supposedly 3M accidentally made an electrostatic force field in one of their manufacturing plants. search for "3M electrostatic force field" and you find some stuff. This was several years ago, and a complete accident.

weird 😛

Nate

Cool😛

We need to stickie that in Highly technical😉

Where did you hear about that? I don't remember ever having heard anything about it.

Nate

nah..I was taking the time out of my very-busy-because-I-am-a-very-important-person-more-so-than-all-of-you-day to make a punn🙂


:laugh:

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: everman
That article is from about 10 yrs ago, who knows what might have come out of it since then... 😀

Playstation 2:Q

 

[ed21x]

this is NOT reactive armor- all reactive armor is, is armor platings that explodes on contact when something hits it. This system actually fires something at an incomming projectile to dismantle it.