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With active camouflage in the infrared range and some
work already done on the visual range my ten minute
Wikipedia degree tells me the next generation of tank
targeting will use detection of EM flux produced by the
engines.
The idea is simply a faraday cage placed over all motors
of a tank
to reduce detection radius.
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//the next generation of tank targeting will use detection of EM flux produced by the engines// |
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What leads you to that conclusion? Can you share a link? Why would you think that could be detected from afar in a useful way? |
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Does a turboshaft engine even produce EM? The ignitors are only
used during start-up, no? (Or is that only for aero engines?) |
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And the same for diesel engines, too. Are we talking about the
generators, perhaps? |
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I know some gasoline-powered aero engines use shielded ignitions.
Or maybe most (I was listening to AM radio when a Piper Cub buzzed
my house, once, and I heard it, but that was the only time). |
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Is there going to be a km of smiting per kw/h guidance for battery powered future tanks |
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Ferrets and Saracens both have shielded ignitions. That's as far as my experience gos though, and they both have similar engines (Rolls-Royce B60 and B80 respectively). |
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Oh, that kind of ferret. Umm, is it just me or is tank just one big metal box anyway, so putting some bits of mesh over the intakes/exhausts.. |
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Most modern AFVs are already heavily screened, not for emissions but against EMP. What works for incoming, works for outgoing. |
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// EM flux produced by the engines. // |
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... is going to be low frequency. And very much in the near field. |
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If you want to detect low frequency EM you need proportionately large antenna. |
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The Mk. I eyeball is pretty good at detecting tanks. |
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//you need proportionately large antenna. |
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Having wasted an irreplaceable 2 minutes of my life reading wikipedia on the subject, Mothra would be an ideal tank-killer "It has been shown to have the ability to spray silk, metamorphose, fly, generate hurricane-force wind, scatter poison, drop wings and use various magical energy attacks". |
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Current counter-counter measures against the decoy tank with a huge lightbulb it can batter itself on are under development. |
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//Mothra would be an ideal tank-killer "It has been
shown to have the ability to spray silk,
metamorphose, fly, generate hurricane-force wind,
scatter poison, drop wings and use various magical
energy attacks".// |
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All well and good until it meets Mothrafucker. |
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We really need to eliminate that nasty hollow bit in the
middle. Most anti armor devices focus on penetrating the
armor. What if you got through the armor, and just found
more armor? |
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No, no, what if you got through the armour and found soft furnishings, piped music and a sinister disembodied voice saying "We've been expecting you"? |
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Why a sinister voice ? just a recliner, bigscreen TV, the game's on, libations in the mini-fridge, maybe a hot tub ... |
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… with hot and cold running piranhas … |
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/ detection of EM flux produced by the engines. / |
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Any jeep, groundpounder, bike, rocket or mailbox could carry a EM simulator. |
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Or each tank could pull or push 10 simulators. Four tanks are then forty on your screens. |
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The next generation will be unmanned and therefore small
fast robots that once begin inflicting casualties will be more
terrifying than the Ni rabbit in Monty Python's Quest for the
Holy Grail. |
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//more terrifying than the Ni rabbit |
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Nothing could be more terrifying |
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And the rabbit is nothing to do with the Knights of Ni. |
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Besides, the rabbit is vulnerable to the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch
('tis one of the sacred relics that Brother Maynard carries with him). |
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But only when one readeth the operating book, and
counteth to three, first (without passing one or two). By
which time the tank will have ferociously run you over in
cold blood. |
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I'm still thinking a very large pair of dark glasses on each tank |
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Maybe some Groucho glasses? |
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