US to deploy RPG-busting 'force field'

The Register ^ | April 12 2006

[GOV'T MULE]

Metal Storm holds promise, but is still under development.

[DoughtyOne]

As for having given away too much, I also wish that reports like this would not be aired.

Your comments on the ground troops in the vacinity sound reasoned. I'd agee that would be one downside for sure.

[GooberHead]

I love the idea of slaving the system to an antipersonnel system!

[WorkingClassFilth]

Too bad it can't be deployed around Washington, D.C. against leftists.

[George Smiley]

Codename was BRILLIANT PEBBLES, if memory serves me right.

[DanielLongo]

I'd love something like that for my car in St.Louis traffic!

[Shooter 2.5]

Along with the flying car. Or is it the one where the car turns into a submarine. Plane into submarine? I forget which.

[InvisibleChurch]

I hope that it is at least as half effective as the 'cloaking device' the media uses for the left these days.

[GOV'T MULE]

Keep up that inventive, entrepreneurial spirit. You'll go far.

[jmc1969]

Some of the new anti-IED stuff I have heard of should hold huge promise, but like everything the time it takes in development, testing, and then getting it out to the troops is far too long.

[freedumb2003]

Loose lips sink ships. Should have let them figure it out in a decade. Now they know what to look for and counteract.

I think we know they don't have counter-countermeasures and they would know about it shortly, anyway. In today's world, there is no way any system will be known about within a week of its first use in the field. Also, releasing this may make the Enemy pause (always good).

[freedumb2003]

And now that we are at, it might as well track the RPG round to its source, and auto-fire 30 or so 5.56mm rounds back to the insurgent as a 'hello! don’t do that again'

Wow, that sounds like a great enhancement, Wolf! I don't do weapons systems, but I do do systems, and it always starts with the base funcionality (detect, identify, destroy) before you get to the enhancement (detect, identify, destroy, kill at the source) Of course, I want detect, identify, destroy, splash pigs blood all over the source, audio in Arabic TELLING them they have pigs blood all over them, kill at the source -- but that is just me.

One step at a time, but I wish there was a way to get your idea to The Powers That Be.

You may have a better shot at this than us 'civvies.' Of course, you may

[chaosagent]

"What I wonder though is whether the Israeli system has taken care of the biggest problem in the Russian system .....the fact that if the presence of any friendly soldiers around the tank when the system engages an incoming round would result in friendly casualties. If that thing goes off, and there are friendly soldiers around the tank, then the results (for the foot soldiers) is not exactly optimal (when it comes to their health). I wonder if that was taken care of."

How is this really any different if Trophy did NOT stop the RPG? If the friendlies are close to the tank when the RPG hits, they're still in deep S**T, on all sides of the tank. If Trophy takes out the incoming round, the worse danger is in the direction of the round.

[Rabble]

BTTT

[DoughtyOne]

Good point. You can have the first domestic version and I get the second. Coulda used it yesterday when some guy cut me off bad on the freeway.

[Porterville]

about damn time.

[glorgau]

uses radar to detect incoming projectiles

Great, now the taxpayers are going to have to pay to develop stealth anti-tank rounds. ;-)

[RunningWolf]

Well if you do the systems then this enhancement to kill source is not really a different functionality (detect, identify, destroy) than what you speak of.

Look at this this way, the same data set or digital record (sorry i get my acronym's all muddied up) to take out the projectile is also used for the source.

By this I mean you have time, speed, size, direction etc. So by the the time the system has become aware of, tracked and destroyed hostile projectile, the system also has a direct path back to the launcher (not absolute though).

Now there is no need to try to incorporate every scenario into the logic software etc., for that would simply overload your system. Better for the human to select 'modes/logic paths) for the system to operate under. Say for example 'Fallujah siege mode' does not wait for 'this is a cafe' iff verification or whatnot.

Like I said my terminology is all mucked up, but do you get my ideas/speculation on the theory of this?

Wolf