Posted on 07/27/2022 6:13:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
And diesel is even more dense that gasoline. 15% more energy per volume.
Electric motors create heat!
But you don't need batteries for electric. Think OGRE.
What if the tank was the size of a small warship and had an internal fission reactor?
Yes, a retired electrical engineer friend of mine built a heat exchanger for his pool using the heat from the pool’s pump to heat the pool!......................
Just watched it. Ford Lightening is less than worthless for towing.
Should work well when in a war zone. But the US is going to lose a major war and lose badly so it probably won’t make much difference.
That is the important data point. Also important is the thermal difference that a typical thermal sight can detect. A human being is easy to see in a thermal scope, as is a 100 pound wild pig.
The amount of energy required just to operate the on board communications equipment releases enough heat for the tank to be detectable with a thermal sight system. The only scheme likely to hide the tank is some kind of active surface cooling technology which relies on hot surfaces where the sights can't see them, like under the tank.
Regardless of whether the energy input is from kerosene or batteries it ultimately all turns to heat.
You can divert it, try to hide it - but can't wish it away. Physics is a cruel master.
Then it would be a BOLO.🤔
Maybe they could stick a windmill on top?
A 50 ton vehicle would need around 10 tons of batteries. Minimum.
The chips in military vehicles are less susceptible to an EMP attach than the ones with the same function in your pickup truck, which is why MIL-SPEC chips cost so much more.
The major firefights will be around power stations, transmission lines and charging stations. Bridges, roads, towns are so yesterday.
Powered by new 6 GW “D” cells?
Diamond atomic batteries?
Refined bullshit made into electricity?
Mostly BS, I would say...
This is complete BS. It’s intended to help rationalize the current idiotic Administration’s emphasis on the Green Agenda.
The laws of physics and combat do not yield to wokery.
Pure fantasy. A back of the napkin calculation of how much energy is required to accelerate a 70-ton tracked vehicle from a ZERO to say 10MPH should disabuse anybody of the idea that a battery pack could do that. Plus you’d likely have to create a brand new transmission for it.
LOL! Watch the batteries burst into flames because of the heat generated by the rapid discharge needed to move that think. Blowed up real good!
All it takes is a small crack and welcome EMP.
What do ‘they’ care if it works. Defense contractors will get trillions for these fantasy projects that won’t work.
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