Is this the best piece of minefield navigation kit?
>airtime minimizes time on ground, less chance to be blown up
>is fun and easy
>looks sort of cool
Literally what is the downside
Is this the best piece of minefield navigation kit?
>airtime minimizes time on ground, less chance to be blown up
>is fun and easy
>looks sort of cool
Literally what is the downside
>secret russian mine clearing rech obr. 2023
>minimized footprint minimizes chance of hitting a mine (good!)
>minimized footprint maximizes ground pressure, ensuring any mine you do hit detonates, maybe even antivehicle mines that wouldn't be tripped by a footstep (bad!)
footprint maximizes ground pressure, ensuring any time you don't hit a mine you get stuck.
It's just too smart of an idea. Nobody is genius enough to come up with it, until now.
6’ tall stilts are a better idea.
>explosion further from body
>bouncing mines blow out circumfrentially, destroying stilt and not your ribcage
What do anons think?
>legs are fine, but stilts are uneven now
>trip and fall head first onto a mine
Clearly drywall stilts are the answer, perhaps with pole claws to reach the ground.
If you've ever done it you'd know it is quite tiring to do for extended periods. So hopefully the mine field is only like 30ft long. Personally I prefer jetpacks.
They fixed that problem back in the 1960's. They got banned because they worked a bit too well and would send people flying to the point that it caused injury.
That’s incredible. Someone needs to make a modern battery-powered version. Imagine flexing on those escooter fools with epogo.
Theoretically a bigass electric solenoid aka "linear motor" could do that. Making it electric could also allow a computer to control the power as well as prevent it from 'firing' if it's tilted at too far of an angle for safety. We're still stuck with the problems that solenoids aren't very efficient--much less than a rotary electric motor--and our current battery tech has a fraction of the power of gasoline.
Actually now that I think about it the solution is to make it gas powered but with computerized fuel injection instead of a simple carburetor. That way you get the ability of the computer to control it and the power and efficiency of gas in one. It could be done with an onboard battery that recharges using a magnet in the piston and a coil in the cylinder to make a simple generator. It might not even require a battery, like the Stihl MS500i fuel-injected chainsaw.
Would hovercrafts actually be able to glide over minefields like in Die Another Day?
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Do you think you'd be able to get something like this to compress well enough to run on JP8?
But can I get one that runs off venting steam from a miniaturized nuclear reactor?
Sure, just have a knob on top that raises or lowers a little control rod as a throttle.
It also work beautifully in the mud.
Put a snow shoe on the bottom
And now his footprint is bigger than a normal shoe, genius.
But low pressure! If you can walk on snow you're not going to be setting off any mines.
Have a drone drop a stanchion on the other side or makeup a cable loop around a tree etc then zip line across Wheeee
>makeup a cable loop around a tree etc then zip line across
Hmmm, I wonder if any military planners ever thought of using a "Yarder" for moving materiel? It's basically a zipline machine powered by a big diesel engine that's used for hauling trees in logging operations or for construction projects across rivers or gorges. If it can sling around trees weighing many tons it could easily move most combat vehicles around.
Interesting are there 2 of them working in tandem? Is it like a cable car?
There's a zipline tensioned, that's the top cable on the right. It bears the weight of the logs hanging from the trolley (blue). Then the two cables below that cable pull the trolley back and forth. One pulls it back towards the machine, the other goes to a pulley at the far end of the zipline and pulls the trolley back away from the machine.
The cables on the left going to the blue tower are guywires to help hold the machine stationary.
http://www.vannattabros.com/iron69.html
>Pogo sticks onto a landmine and crashes into the sun at mach 87