Hovercrafts and mines

[mike wightman]

You are describing how the Javelin works:

FGM-148 Javelin - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Drew]

@Drew After giving it some thought and doing a little research, I still couldn't find find what I thought I had read. What I do remember from the article is, it could be used by infantry, static emplacement and fired at anytime after the vehicle's signature was within the warhead's memory. Where it starts getting fuzzy is whether or not it need human oversight or could do it all by itself. Also, the 'mine' was intended to be remotely fired and there was something about a time delay, where as, a platoon of 'hovercrafts' could pull into concealed position, shut down and its crew would go to sleep before launching the missile at zero dark thirty ruining their night.

Now, I don't know how much of the 'fuzzy' description is real or not. I tend to look at a weapon system like Cluster sub munitions and come up with all sorts of devious ways of using them. Example: In artillery roles, both Orbital and modern battlefield and in space combat where they deliver mutli-warhead on target. Hell, railguns and guass rifles are nasty little weapons in my TU because, they might not be nearly as silent as Sci-fi wants them to be in the early days, but they pack one hell of a punch.

All I can say at this point is, I know there is a system out there but what is real or my head canon is, I don't know...

The Army Wants New Networked Mines That Leap Up To Attack The Vulnerable Tops Of Tanks

Minefields networked together would provide improved capabilities and could help limit risks to friendly troops and innocent civilians.

www.thedrive.com

This is what I was talking about. Also here is another link (it's hypothetically but with a little imagination can you see it targeting a specific uniform rather than a person's face) ? https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...arch?q=ai+drones+targeting+people&FORM=HDRSC3

 

[Rigel Stardin]

@mike wightman The tracking system is the same and perhaps the delivery system but, it was a 'mine' in the sense, you could set it up in a bush and walk away.

 

[Rigel Stardin]

@Drew I've known about the 'top attack' rounds since the 80's. There were just coming into service when I left the military. They came in shoulder fired, vehicle mounted, artillery rounds and jet based missile systems. I forgot seeing the video about the drones, but yeah, puts the Terminator to shame. The battlefield of the future is going to be a very nasty place.

 

[McPerth]

Minefields, at least AFAIK (my military experience IRW is limited, to say the least), are supposed to be a relatively cheap defense, with lots of mines deployed to "seal" a path.

As I already said, I guess those "intelligent" mines would fully change this, being not so cheap.

Also, and again my guess, I have serious doubts any of those systems told here could be deployed with FASCAM artillery rounds...

 

[Rigel Stardin]

The US is starting to develop mines which are apart of a network. They want to start using them as information gathering systems. The article I read while trying to find my mythical 'mine' stated, there hope is to know when and where a mine is detonated, what the enemy is (Personnel or vehicle) with the ablity to recover and allow friendly troops and vehicles to pass through those minefields. So if you got deep pockets, anything is possible.

 

[Condottiere]

If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain.

Guidance.

It's why the Soviets strapped explosives on dogs and trained them to crawl under tanks.

 

[Rigel Stardin]

Problem with that @Condottiere , they used their own tanks to train the dogs. In battle they were used, those dogs would go directly for the Soviet built tanks. You might say, it wasn't a complete success? But HEY, the theory was correct.

 

[Condottiere]

Audio, visual, olfactory - senses weren't correctly trained.

Seals and dolphins, possibly whales, now patrol harbours and sealanes.

 

[whartung]

The US is starting to develop mines which are apart of a network.

They've been thinktanking stuff like this since forever.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Audio, visual, olfactory - senses weren't correctly trained.

Seals and dolphins, possibly whales, now patrol harbours and sealanes.

Project Pigeon (Wikipedia).

It actually worked, but nobody took them seriously (if I didn't provide a link, you wouldn't have either now would you?) and the idea was discarded.

 

[Condottiere]

If not totally mechanized, since I'm sure we're going to drones the size of dragon flies for reconnaissance, cyber variants might become possible, if not constrained by ethics.