>was granted a patent on a forcefield system designed to protect against shock waves >It is not intended to protect against projectiles, radiation, or energy weapons such as lasers. >As of March 2016, no working models are known to have been demonstrated.
yawn, why don't they just make a forcefield shield already
Honestly this could probably still work for a pure assault and break a status quo. You don't need them to survive, just to go through the landmine and breach the front line for the rest of the army to follow, like tanks did during WW1.
>It ain't even gonna survive to the landmines before it gets wrecked by drones and artillery.
Drones aren't doing shit to it and at this scale, the top armour will be built thick enough to tank 155mm.
>Drones aren't doing shit to it and at this scale, the top armour will be built thick enough to tank 155mm.
Lol, no. An Abrams tank weighs 65 tons and it is a fraction of the size of that thing, it can't tank a 155mm shell. So not only do you need much thicker IE heavier armor, you'd need to put it over a muuuch larger surface.
Do you know how much fucking weight it would take to armor the top of something that big enough to stop a 155mm shell, that is forgetting that you still need to armor the front, sides and bottom since it will be used in a direct assault. All that aside it is eating a JDAM or GMLRS round anyway.
The resources to build something like this will always be a fraction of the resources to destroy it, armor doesn't scale well with size on land and a vehicle like this being viable is a pipe dream.
>and at this scale, the top armour will be built thick enough to tank 155mm
if your design is "just add moar armor" you need to invent anti-gravity first
A behemoth can't move in most areas, would require an extensive and complex supply line, and is a big easy target in an era where offensive firepower heavily outweighs defensive capability.
>is a big easy target in an era where offensive firepower heavily outweighs defensive capability.
https://youtube.com/shorts/RufixYpEuos?si=L03OiO32FH55E4hE
>shorts >ESL voice >Wakanda >doesn't even claim to protect anything agaisnt impacts, only pressure waves >actual working examples: ZERO
The epitome of a nothingburger. Go back, redditor.
Imagine the trenches you could dig with that gargantuan German mining vehicle, that one with the base the size of NASA's space shuttle launch platform vehicle.
We have power sources that would give us near unlimited power for centuries with near zero environmental impact but we still dig up coal. God I fucking hate hippies.
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German hippies are the worst of the worst.
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While Germany is retarded for discontinuing its nuclear power, it should be noted that they also don't have African colonies to buy cheap uranium from.
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>it should be noted that they also don't have African colonies to buy cheap uranium from.
they could easily acquire some
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you realize there are other places that have uranium, right?
Uranium ore cost is on the absolute bottom of operation costs list in either case
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France gets a small fraction of its uranium from Africa due to high costs.
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Uranium costs nothing to dig, transport and store, magnitude less than oil or even coal. The real hard part is refining, enriching it and of course making the reactors.
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People are retarded and would rather let Greenpeace traitors tell them how nuclear power plants are ticking time bombs over anyone that has even the slightest understanding of how anyone this shit works. It will never fail to piss me off how people think Chernobyl is some zone of invisible death that nobody has touched in decades despite the fact the CNPP operated into the late 90s, finally shutting down for good in 2000
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Not only is relying on coal power downright primitive, these big fuckers are ripping up entire hills. They're literally changing the landscape and demolishing long-standing villages for coal
Design is about resources that constrain you the most, it does not exist in a vacuum.
When you have a lack of sophisticated control systems but an excess of energy and capital, you build giant death mechas and battleships, just like in your favourite animes. We live in a world where computing power and sensors have become cheap while excess energy and capital expenditure (think heavy industry) are in decline, so you get more per $ by building small and sophisticated machines.
Since there is an energy crisis looming, the future of warfare will likely be about small and distributed more evenly along energy (sun) availability, i.e. guerilla warfare and mini-kamikaze drones that hunt people.
When easily extractable coal ran out, and now oil to follow. Cheap, densely packed and transportable energy was a moment in time, it's never coming back.
1990s
B2 Spirit was the last >wooooooooooooah
piece of technology to come out, and even that was a long time coming since we could have had flying doritos all the way back in the 1940s.
We do dream big, but building big vehicles is not always efficient. If you want to see massive technological marvels, then look at cruise ships.
The MS Arvia has a displacement of 87k Tons, is longer than a Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carrier, a beam of 137ft. Has over 30 bars and restaurants, a crew of 1800, and can hold 5200 passengers. It has a 82,700hp LNG power plant driving its screws. Oh, it also has a fucking rum distillery on board.
Frankly, until we get orbital ship building going. We probably won't see any more massive technological marvels on Earth outside of ships and some structures.
How on earth do you keep a ship like this properly supplied? At least in the navy you're on some kind of fixed eating schedule and only get two beers every 3 months if your captain isn't a cunt. I've worked plenty of weddings where we ran out of booze and had to go get more, sometimes multiple times in one night, and that was just for a few hundred people. Do they blow a massive foghorn once they have to 86 dark rum or Long Island Iced Teas?
I really hope in the future people invent force fields that are so strong they render all other forms of armor obsolete but require a whole-ass nuclear reactor to run, so people need to build huge mega-tanks for wars.
But I know we're probably just gonna get drone spam.
We need forcefields before we get Bolos.
Forcefields already exist
There's no excuse
https://youtube.com/shorts/fmSIggI6WYk?si=Gml6t6OW4zJ_jrOa
Isn't the problem with plasma force fields is it basically cooks the dna of people inside it if it's powerful enough to stop projectiles?
BOLOS are unmanned, by biologicals at least.
>was granted a patent on a forcefield system designed to protect against shock waves
>It is not intended to protect against projectiles, radiation, or energy weapons such as lasers.
>As of March 2016, no working models are known to have been demonstrated.
yawn, why don't they just make a forcefield shield already
why use big truck when small truck do trick
Bigger is better
That's just dicklet talk
>Dodge truck
MOPARBROS WHY DO WE KEEP WINNING?
>giant target
>maintenance
>needs special support just to get from A to B
I would say the Germans learned this lesson but they never really did
Honestly this could probably still work for a pure assault and break a status quo. You don't need them to survive, just to go through the landmine and breach the front line for the rest of the army to follow, like tanks did during WW1.
Imagine being a mobik and seeing that fucking thing rolling towards you.
It ain't even gonna survive to the landmines before it gets wrecked by drones and artillery.
>It ain't even gonna survive to the landmines before it gets wrecked by drones and artillery.
Drones aren't doing shit to it and at this scale, the top armour will be built thick enough to tank 155mm.
>Drones aren't doing shit to it and at this scale, the top armour will be built thick enough to tank 155mm.
Lol, no. An Abrams tank weighs 65 tons and it is a fraction of the size of that thing, it can't tank a 155mm shell. So not only do you need much thicker IE heavier armor, you'd need to put it over a muuuch larger surface.
Do you know how much fucking weight it would take to armor the top of something that big enough to stop a 155mm shell, that is forgetting that you still need to armor the front, sides and bottom since it will be used in a direct assault. All that aside it is eating a JDAM or GMLRS round anyway.
The resources to build something like this will always be a fraction of the resources to destroy it, armor doesn't scale well with size on land and a vehicle like this being viable is a pipe dream.
Just put Phalanx and Patriot on top.
BRRRRT BRRRRRT WHOOSH WOOOSH BRRRRRRRT
>and at this scale, the top armour will be built thick enough to tank 155mm
if your design is "just add moar armor" you need to invent anti-gravity first
A behemoth can't move in most areas, would require an extensive and complex supply line, and is a big easy target in an era where offensive firepower heavily outweighs defensive capability.
>is a big easy target in an era where offensive firepower heavily outweighs defensive capability.
https://youtube.com/shorts/RufixYpEuos?si=L03OiO32FH55E4hE
>shorts
>esl voice
>wakanda in title
i could never say
GO. BACK.
harder
Thank you for your service
>shorts
>ESL voice
>Wakanda
>doesn't even claim to protect anything agaisnt impacts, only pressure waves
>actual working examples: ZERO
The epitome of a nothingburger. Go back, redditor.
>youtube shorts
ew
This is the kind of big brain thinking that is needed around here. What other giant industrial equipment would be good?
Imagine the trenches you could dig with that gargantuan German mining vehicle, that one with the base the size of NASA's space shuttle launch platform vehicle.
>be in a 50' deep trench
>can't actually do anything since far too deep
>it starts to rain
Not sure if that would work
war crime
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Ah, yes.
The venerable Badger 288.
they're multiplying??
the 288 is the serial number
install Paris gun (but bigger)
BAGGER 288!
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>What other giant industrial equipment would be good?
baggr 288
baggr 288
baggr
baggr
What does it even do?
Dig big
Mines coal with the "saw blade" and the rest is just conveyor belts
>coal
We have power sources that would give us near unlimited power for centuries with near zero environmental impact but we still dig up coal. God I fucking hate hippies.
German hippies are the worst of the worst.
While Germany is retarded for discontinuing its nuclear power, it should be noted that they also don't have African colonies to buy cheap uranium from.
>it should be noted that they also don't have African colonies to buy cheap uranium from.
they could easily acquire some
you realize there are other places that have uranium, right?
Uranium ore cost is on the absolute bottom of operation costs list in either case
France gets a small fraction of its uranium from Africa due to high costs.
Uranium costs nothing to dig, transport and store, magnitude less than oil or even coal. The real hard part is refining, enriching it and of course making the reactors.
People are retarded and would rather let Greenpeace traitors tell them how nuclear power plants are ticking time bombs over anyone that has even the slightest understanding of how anyone this shit works. It will never fail to piss me off how people think Chernobyl is some zone of invisible death that nobody has touched in decades despite the fact the CNPP operated into the late 90s, finally shutting down for good in 2000
Not only is relying on coal power downright primitive, these big fuckers are ripping up entire hills. They're literally changing the landscape and demolishing long-standing villages for coal
digs up a bunch of sort of flammable almost-mud for burning in German power plants.
it de-meats you
It was used for surface mining coal.
Apparently these things aren't self propelled, you have to plug them in?????
First, we need to retake Sealand as our rightful sovereign territories and principle stronghold.
over my dead body
t. actual Lord of Sealand
What if you attached a bagger 288 to Sealand.
Spirit of Motherwill when?
yes i want 6 aircraft carriers and 8 80cm railway guns please
Fun fact about those, Japan used to import them and make normal cars out of them
Design is about resources that constrain you the most, it does not exist in a vacuum.
When you have a lack of sophisticated control systems but an excess of energy and capital, you build giant death mechas and battleships, just like in your favourite animes. We live in a world where computing power and sensors have become cheap while excess energy and capital expenditure (think heavy industry) are in decline, so you get more per $ by building small and sophisticated machines.
Since there is an energy crisis looming, the future of warfare will likely be about small and distributed more evenly along energy (sun) availability, i.e. guerilla warfare and mini-kamikaze drones that hunt people.
When did mankind stop dreaming big?
When easily extractable coal ran out, and now oil to follow. Cheap, densely packed and transportable energy was a moment in time, it's never coming back.
my God it's the peak oil retars again.
not in our lifetimes, nor our sons or grandsons
Thank you anon so I didn’t have to. Modern day Malthusians
1990s
B2 Spirit was the last
>wooooooooooooah
piece of technology to come out, and even that was a long time coming since we could have had flying doritos all the way back in the 1940s.
We do dream big, but building big vehicles is not always efficient. If you want to see massive technological marvels, then look at cruise ships.
The MS Arvia has a displacement of 87k Tons, is longer than a Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carrier, a beam of 137ft. Has over 30 bars and restaurants, a crew of 1800, and can hold 5200 passengers. It has a 82,700hp LNG power plant driving its screws. Oh, it also has a fucking rum distillery on board.
Frankly, until we get orbital ship building going. We probably won't see any more massive technological marvels on Earth outside of ships and some structures.
How on earth do you keep a ship like this properly supplied? At least in the navy you're on some kind of fixed eating schedule and only get two beers every 3 months if your captain isn't a cunt. I've worked plenty of weddings where we ran out of booze and had to go get more, sometimes multiple times in one night, and that was just for a few hundred people. Do they blow a massive foghorn once they have to 86 dark rum or Long Island Iced Teas?
Look at all this real estate for fortifications and weapons stations. Don't talk to me about it's too slow, once it's painted red it'll go faster.
Doesn't look that big, there is a pickup truck to the left for comparison of scale.
yes
why do i get desert of kharak vibes
Because DoK used them as a refference point
Replace cans with rocket pods.
>I ride alone
play c&c generals contra
Sounds impractical
I really hope in the future people invent force fields that are so strong they render all other forms of armor obsolete but require a whole-ass nuclear reactor to run, so people need to build huge mega-tanks for wars.
But I know we're probably just gonna get drone spam.
There was an anime show about this. But forgot the name. Also the designs were pretty stupid. The female commander was hot tho.
Mortal engines
Heavy Object?
Like an aircraft carrier?
On land you always have the topography of the terrain to deal with.
Unless you use a terraformer mining vehicle