Posted on 04/09/2007 6:15:08 PM PDT by Tatze
I’d like to double the size of our Military. Our Founders could not envisioned the World in which we live, but they gave us the tools to deal with it!
LLS
The reason for this is that the PPK is blowback operated; at the moment of firing the breech block is held in place against the barrel by only the force of a spring. When the cartridge fires, the equal and opposite reaction of the bullet and gasses going forward are opposed only by the lightweight breechblock which moves backwards at a relatively high speed. When it reaches the end of its travel and transfers that energy to the frame, you get a sharp snap to your palm.
A locked breech pistol mechanically links the breech and barrel for part of their rearwards travel, as such the rearwards recoiling mass is higher and its velocity lower. The barrel's rearward motion is arrested by the front of the frame while the breechblock and slide are still in motion, this splits the blow delivered to the frame (and from the frame to your hand) into two lesser parts seperated by some milliseconds.
It's all the same energy going in the same direction, the difference is the speed of delivery.
If the weapon is hanging loosely, what is the servo going to push against?
I corresponded with a guy from the BLEEX exoskeleton lab for a while. He told me the production-model suits would be sealed, airtight, and air-conditioned, this eliminating any ovheating problems as well as sealing the soldier off from chemical, bio, and radioactive materials.
One thing that most people miss is that these exoskeltons will be sat-linked and probably remote controllable. An unconscious casualty wearing an intact suit could be “walked” back to a medical station via remote control, or an empty suit could be walked into battle the same way.
WOW! Is this stuff just something on a drawing board, or can we expect to see actual prototypes a some point?
I believe that some of this is already at the prototype stage.
That's why our guys will leave behind the $2000 radios and opt for cheap, working $25 GMRS radios from Wal-Mart. They work.
Priorities for military hardware:
Oh, it’s going to happen. DARPA’s Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation Program exhibited a prototype BLEEX 1 suit in December 2005; I wouldn’t be surprised if a BLEEX 2 prototype were already in the testing stages. By the time I’m ready to retire (2035 or so) our boys in the field will be wearing the first generation of what will amount to science-fiction powered armor.
DARPA has a lot of fascinating stuff going on: the Underwater Express program (”... will demonstrate stable and controllable high-speed underwater transport through supercavitation”), the Urban Photonic Sandtable Display (”a large holographic display to facilitate rapid and clear communication of intelligence for team-based mission planning and rehearsal”), and the Cormorant Unmanned Air Vehicle ( an unmanned combat aircraft designed to be launched from submarine aircraft carriers). And that’s just the stuff they’ll admit to publicly. Who knows what death rays, giant robots, and ontological bombs may be lurking in the shadows?
Obviously, a stock steadicam harness wouldn't work for a gun mount; that was my point. It would have to be far more rigid, or able to become more rigid. The whole point of a steadicam is to smooth out motion, to avoid any sharp jerks in the camera. With a gun, you want sharp motion -- you want the barrel to point where you want, NOW.
Yikes how scary if they turn on the US citizens!
Yikes how scary if they turn on the US citizens!
Just think folks if Hillary or the Lefty got into power?
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