techeblog.com — General Dynamics has just released a new video demonstrating its Trophy Active Defense System, which is basically an invisible force field for military vehicles that disables incoming RPG rounds. Direct youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jzAupr044
Oct 16, 2006 View in Crawl 4
elpayoOct 16, 2006
That video reminds me of the commercial at the beginning of 'Real Genius' for the Crossbow."The Crossbow Project. There's no defense like a good offense."
botraxOct 16, 2006
That kicks ass! Palestinian kids won't be able to throw rocks at Israeli tanks anymore!
kutsalOct 16, 2006
Uhm.. It's not really a force field you know.. It's just a device that scans for threats and once it finds them (i.e. RPG rounds), it figures out the trajectory, and fires a high-speed projectile at it, thus "disabling" the incoming threat..While a cool idea for mobile units that go into battle alone or with other heavily armored units, guess what happens to those things that are not armored (think marines, ground support, etc) that happened to be in the way of these projectiles....
zoglogOct 16, 2006
forcefield my ass, it's just a fricking radar linked to an autofire tracking system. More like point defense. Interesting technology still but original digger needs to go write for fox news.
dtfinchOct 17, 2006
Now they'll start covering their projectiles with radar absorbent paint.
greenampOct 17, 2006
He was just repeating terminology used in the video.
aleksandarOct 19, 2006
If this is true, it means that land mines are going to be a lot more popular. And that is not a good thing.