>50% less fuel consumption
Makes me wonder if this is going to be a cheaper, easier to mass produce version of the abrams as far as powertrain, with some fancy optics tacked on.
This isn't made as part of a tank development program like MBT-70. It is a technology demonstrator made without tax payer funding. The company took a normal Abrams and upgraded it with some off-the-shelf technology to try and entice someone to buy them and get people talking online. They didn't really develop anything new or spend a bunch of money on research, this is a couple million spent on marketing.
The MBT-70 meanwhile was a huge joint operation that fell apart and both countries took the technology they developed and each made thousands of tanks based on the results.
German ME110s would find their targets on the eastern front by the dust kicked up from vehicles.
It was the easiest thing to spot from the air. They could even get a rough estimate on how many vehicles were there just by the size of the dust cloud.
I read somewhere that the point of them were to break up the silhouette of the tank. How effectively they can do that or if thats actually the purpose I do not know.
Working as a defense contractor in Europe I've learned one thing. It's really important to make shit look cool if you want to sell your product even if it's just a glove or a simple riot shield.
All first world countries do it (plus the thirdies who buy their shit). It's late Cold War tech. Typically MMW range radar on a plane.
-send radar ping 1
-get results 1
-send radar ping 2
-get results 2
-minus 2 from 1 and mark the difference on a map
It's called GMTI. It began as shitty analog tech circa Vietnam but by the end of the GWOT it was refined enough to track individual people and tire tracks.
It has enough resolution to resolve the features of armoured vehicles and compare them against a database for target ID.
I'd like to know when the hell Boeing recorded radar signature for every Soviet IFV and put them into the Longbow computer.
https://i.imgur.com/cDv37kt.jpg
look up Battlefield Surveillance radar and Synthetic aperture radar.
The 1980s BSR was supposed to help NATO track and monitor enemy forces without having to reveal the location of the NATO defenders.
The Fear was the Soviets would have BSR and your own recce would be detected long before it could ever get eyes on something.
So a lot of late Cold War/early 90s AFVs got stealth prototypes.
Pic related French AMX-30 with sigredux tech (Cooled skin and RCS reduction tech)
It has enough resolution to resolve the features of armoured vehicles and compare them against a database for target ID.
I'd like to know when the hell Boeing recorded radar signature for every Soviet IFV and put them into the Longbow computer.
look up Battlefield Surveillance radar and Synthetic aperture radar.
The 1980s BSR was supposed to help NATO track and monitor enemy forces without having to reveal the location of the NATO defenders.
The Fear was the Soviets would have BSR and your own recce would be detected long before it could ever get eyes on something.
So a lot of late Cold War/early 90s AFVs got stealth prototypes.
Pic related French AMX-30 with sigredux tech (Cooled skin and RCS reduction tech)
Yes
>NGEA
did some anon come up with that acronym?
>50% less fuel consumption
Makes me wonder if this is going to be a cheaper, easier to mass produce version of the abrams as far as powertrain, with some fancy optics tacked on.
It's going to end up like MBT-70
This isn't made as part of a tank development program like MBT-70. It is a technology demonstrator made without tax payer funding. The company took a normal Abrams and upgraded it with some off-the-shelf technology to try and entice someone to buy them and get people talking online. They didn't really develop anything new or spend a bunch of money on research, this is a couple million spent on marketing.
The MBT-70 meanwhile was a huge joint operation that fell apart and both countries took the technology they developed and each made thousands of tanks based on the results.
And show off the underside like some kind of common whore?
>shows off tracks
>has earrings
>hatch in the back
Is this a girl tank?
Of course.
Going by WW1 standards I think the Bradley is a female tank.
Why did they make it zigzag like that? Is there a tactical advantage or is it just pure distilled cringe?
It reduces the dust coming out of the sides. Maybe by turbulence idk. Sometimes you see the rear flaps sliced into strips to reduce mud fatigue too.
German ME110s would find their targets on the eastern front by the dust kicked up from vehicles.
It was the easiest thing to spot from the air. They could even get a rough estimate on how many vehicles were there just by the size of the dust cloud.
looks cool
I read somewhere that the point of them were to break up the silhouette of the tank. How effectively they can do that or if thats actually the purpose I do not know.
couldnt they do that with
you know
paint
ok but why is it zigzag tho, it triggers my autism
> billion dollar R&D budget
> spend 2000 dollars to make cool dust flaps
why not lmao
Working as a defense contractor in Europe I've learned one thing. It's really important to make shit look cool if you want to sell your product even if it's just a glove or a simple riot shield.
They are stealth flaps.
iirc the road wheels are one of the biggest radar returns on tanks
> using radar to track ground based targets
how does that even work no cap? does anyone actually do it?
All first world countries do it (plus the thirdies who buy their shit). It's late Cold War tech. Typically MMW range radar on a plane.
-send radar ping 1
-get results 1
-send radar ping 2
-get results 2
-minus 2 from 1 and mark the difference on a map
It's called GMTI. It began as shitty analog tech circa Vietnam but by the end of the GWOT it was refined enough to track individual people and tire tracks.
fascinating thanks
>how does that even work no cap?
It has enough resolution to resolve the features of armoured vehicles and compare them against a database for target ID.
I'd like to know when the hell Boeing recorded radar signature for every Soviet IFV and put them into the Longbow computer.
look up Battlefield Surveillance radar and Synthetic aperture radar.
The 1980s BSR was supposed to help NATO track and monitor enemy forces without having to reveal the location of the NATO defenders.
The Fear was the Soviets would have BSR and your own recce would be detected long before it could ever get eyes on something.
So a lot of late Cold War/early 90s AFVs got stealth prototypes.
Pic related French AMX-30 with sigredux tech (Cooled skin and RCS reduction tech)
Dust being kicked up can be detected on thermals and optics so...BRUSHES!
hide the road wheels as much as possible