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When you need to cross terrain quickly with trucks tanks and
other supplies the following system can be used. Warmed
hydrogen or methane ballones high above vehicles are what
raise the vehicle slightly above the ground where it is swung
and pulled by the next anchor.
The end anchors are
temporarily stacked sand bags or water
bags, which themselves can be swung over by advancing
balloons into position.
A line of these anchors can be used to pull in over water,
mud, rocks, mountains and any mine fields creating a path
for extremely rapid advancement. But then, once in postion
tanks and trucks can themselves be used as anchors for the
rest of the advancing convoy.
The whole system can be set to work for short distances and
then continuing to the next troublesome point. I envision a
system where 60 ton tanks are moved at 200 kmh to distances
of say 100km each time.
The path can be moved and changed rapidly so that the path
is never static, making it harder for the convoy to be hit. The
balloons can be many, cheap, hard to see and find, and thus
even shooting them out of the sky or burning some of them
will not stop the operation.
Another typical use could be for creating fast and non static
"bridges" to hop over obstacles including rivers or mine fields.
Useful for getting weapons into the Ukrain battlefields, and
refugees out of the war zones.
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So we're imagining hydrogen balloons walking on sandbag
feet, and swinging 10t+ vehicles along between their legs? |
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The 10t+ part is where this falls over, I think, if you want the
balloons to be small enough that they're hard to see. |
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Somewhat baked in China which already has tens
of thousands of miles of high speed railways
running at up to 300 mph! I'm sure they can be
used by the military too. |
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How about ballistic tank carriers? Only need to work out how to land / decelerate safely. |
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The airship doesn't move much. It lifts the baggage above the
ground. Horizontal movement is then acheived by swinging
and gliding on rope. |
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Sandbags are swung into position one after the other. So
balloon can raise one sandbag but not two at a time. Simple. |
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Balloons don't have to be big, but the cluster effect is
achieved by spreading out in 3d especially up and far from
each other. Not that hard to achieve with enough tethers. |
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Also, a big line of large stationary airborne objects = easy
targets. Wait until enemy has (critical) equipment lifted, then
shoot balloon. Equipment goes splat. |
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Ever swing a 40-60 ton tank? |
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//Ever swing a 40-60 ton tank?// |
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It's not hard, you just ctrl click. |
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