What near future technology are you most excited about, /k/? For me, it's railfuns and practical exoskeletons
Speaking of railguns, I hear the Blitzer system did a successful test last week.
>>29988308
What's special about this one over others?
>>29988275
For me its the S-500 and its increased radar range to 600+ kilometers VS the 400 with the S-400.
And this is a MOBILE ABM system. Fucking hardcore.
The other things i am excited about are the RS-26, RS-28 and the P-1100 Zircon.
waiting for japan to finish the gundam
>>29988275
AI and any hardware to execute it.
Nano robots with cloud AI controlling it wirelessly or by satellite.
Self replicating robots medium and large, not grey goo, but can harvest/mine the entire moon in a month or so.
>>29990161
Now taking job apps for the digital plantation to drive robots that can't really think laterally or spatially to solve problems. Maybe needed to fix other robots or solve really complex human problems.
Practical problems, like how to negate the enemy and not cause a mass exodus of civilians.
Practical problems, how to determine the best placement for wells in the Sahara using the newly discovered underground ocean of 14,000 year old water.
Fix an Apollo 13 fuck up of a space station gone holey from a meteor storm. Drive that robot to patch and fix multiple system failures.
>>29988275
Drones capable of, and eventually specifically designed for, air to air combat.
>>29988275
I'm also looking forward to the Japanese and South Korean stealth fighters currently in early development.
>>29988275
Lasers and particle beams strong enough to create havoc on the enemy 100x more efficient. Using phased arrays of semiconductors that are powered by superconducting cables at room temperatures.
Basically etching and entire 10" circular wafer with a few 100 billion emitters. Runs for a few shots, but only costs $100 to load another into the 4ft bolo cannon.
For peaceful use to calm down the libtards, you can shoot the Northern lights and tap into 10-65 Gigawatts of plasma to ground potential. Literally bring all the lightning and plasma voltage difference to the power grid.
No more coal, hardly no nukes, a few renewables for backup. Screw the oil barons who tried to prevent Tesla's toys and distribution to the world for nearly free.
>>29990322
Of course the counter force and shielding drones with electronic warfare and active jamming suppression of the enemy's jammers.
The Navy has a few large cruise missiles, they are working on smaller drones as we speak.
>>29988275
>railfuns
You tell me as soon as they come out with even slightly affordable, handheld railfuns and I will pop a boner so huge that my pants fly off
>Railguns
>Pic Related will be real
One day, m8s, one day ...
That and AI. Not human AI, that is still a bit of a challenge, but making something as smart as an animal and mounting it to a plane sounds like a pretty good idea.
>>29988275
Just wait until INP 2 information is publicly revealed. Rep-rate capability has officially been in development since 2012.
>>29990409
>Stonehenge
Ace combat was the shit, that game made me fall in love with flying.
>>29990343
Man-portable super-accurate laser rifle when?
>>29989016
Rail gun missile defense system.
>>29988275
MARAUDER or some other energy based weapon.
Like if they turned that area denial heat ray humvee UP and fried some Haji with it. Weaponized radio or radar arrays are my secret fetish. Or maxed out electroweapons like tasers or electrified water cannons.
Some navy anons here mentioned that Aegis radar arrays are enough to fry an egg...imagine what such an emitter could do to humans. Now inagine some of those truly YUGE scientific instruments that can emit energies waaaay more potent and lethal getting weaponized too or like the big dish telescopes getting converted to superlasers or something.
>>29989598
>600 kilometer radar range
What the fuck.
From Mt. Everest maybe.
>>29992308
We need to weaponize Mt. Everest then.
With death rays.
>>29990343
Storage is the major problem. How the fuck are you going to store a petawatt-hour of energy without creating a "please crash plane here" target for every Hajji on the planet?
>>29994085
Hajis can't get into space my negro, LEO is whites only
>>29991757
>that guy that microwaved popcorn with the aegis
>>29996697
>whites only
India and China are trying to change that.
>>29988275
How effective does /k/ thin krailguns would be as a nuclear defence option?
>>29989016
The Blitzer is one of two being tested by the Navy
>>29996870
This is wrong. BAE won the competition to build launchers for the Navy. General Atomics is developing Blitzer independently and is trying to sell it to the Army.
>>29996845
What's the point? How is an unguided projectile better than a steerable supersonic anti-ICBM missile? I suppose there's nothing you can do to stop a rail gun projectile unlike a missile, but hitting something traveling twice the speed of sound with a brick sounds unnecessarily difficult.
>>29996941
GPS/INS guidance and airbursting increases Ph and Pk substantially. Both of which are slated for HVP.
>>29988275
I'm excited for when the ATD-X and the resulting F-3 bursts out on the stage and scores it's first BVR kill on an F-22.
Japan has top-level access to the F-35's skins, engines, and highly integrated avionics suite. That, along with the 3-D thrust vectoring and fibre-optic adaptive flight control system, will result in an aircraft on a completely different plane from anything not built by Lockheed.
Mark my words, the "F-3" will be the first fighter to beat the F-22 at it's own game, and that will kick the fighter wars back into high gear in a way we haven't really seen since the 1970s.
>>29988275
Probably airburst munitions at the squad level. Although Blitzer and TALOS are both pretty fucking sweet as well.
I think hyper-sonic missiles and UAVs will be a key technology in the near future.
Zircon anti-ship missile will be in mass production since 2018. Speed 5+ Mach.
and the perspective long range cruise missile with the speed about 5-7 Mach which is currently under testing. I guess, it's will enter in service somewhere 2020-2022.
>>29996781
I remember that story. Who's got a cap?
>>29989683
Same here bro same here :(
I'm excited for the LRASM. It has a smart navigation system. It can operate in an electronically jammed environment. It has a huge range. Russia and China better watch out because USA is taking the sea crown back.
>>29988275
Advanced warfag detected
>>29994085
The potential is there but you don't have to store all of it. Multiple stations storing manageable amounts of energy would be more efficient than having one mondo station distributing power to the entire grid
It's a machine that creates earthquakes.
>>29991757
If I recall correctly directed energy based weapons of sufficient power to kill are banned by the Hague. Not that anyone cares *that* much.
>>29996941
Easier than you might think, to be honest. I mean, spacex just launched a rocket into space then had it land itself onto a tiny barge in the middle of the ocean
Did we ever move beyond nazi space magic in the caseless ammunition department?
>>29996979
Still limited to the horizon and airburst works like WW2 flak guns- these things don't have onboard sensors. Amount of HVP in the air is bottlenecked by number of guns (1 gun only) and its ROF (which would be abysmal no matter what). Any super/hypersonic sprinter can saturate it easily. Worse than SM-3.
>>29988275
Free electron laser.
A laser that is powerful enough is plenty destructive. If you accelerate an electron up to a fraction of the speed of light, despite it not having much mass, it still has mass, and there sure are a lot of electrons.
https://youtu.be/fWdGkb7r1iA?t=156
>>29997312
Recoverable/reusable stages are nothing new- weve seen them in Space Shuttle and Buran. Remains to be seen if they can actually make it much cheaper.
>>29996941
because it's cheaper, more deployable, simpler, harder to defeat, and can have a higher volume.
Kinetic Kill Vehicle's (KKV) are the mainstay for nuclear point defense. This is a similiar idea using a modern launching system.
>>29997261
lol. Hague. The only power they have is from atop a self righteous high horse. It must be very convenient when you have other nations do your dirty work for you.
>>29997455
Recoverable behind aren't new, no. I meant the computing involved in having a RLV land itself was pretty impressive, and shooting a missile out of the sky with a Mach 7 projectile is certainly possible.
>>29997477
Right? The whole reason they exist is so that when a victor emerges from a conflict they have all the excuses they need to twist the knife
>>29997102
I did before my fucking hard drive shitted out
>>29988275
They always talk about railguns having 100+ mile range but every video I have seen of a test fire shows them hitting a target a few hundred yards away. Have there been any tests at longer ranges? Anyone have a video?
>>29989016
It shoots down missiles and then does counter-battery fire, or so they claim.
>>29997245
That's arma3.
>>29990161
As a robotics engineer I'm laughing so hard at this. Self replicating nano bots are a technology that won't be around for another hundred years.
>>29996941
Because railgun rounds being developed arent unguided, they actually are smart munitions with fin control.
Exoskeletons make my dick hard. I can't wait to see what we do with them.
>>29998140
> As a robotics engineer
no one believes you mate
>>29998215
Not even lying though, would you rather me make a statement without a qualifier that validates it?
>>29990338
oh what a coincidence, i guess all of asia decided to make a stealth fighter that looks exactly like the ones we have/are making. gee, i guess good ideas are common these days.
>>29998271
Convergent design might have something to do with it
>>29997833
Who gives a fuck about you or your ghetto cheap hard drive? How was this a helpful response? Oh...having that at one time woukd make you kinda relevant to the topic, & since you have no REAL friends, a few of your "komrads" thinking that you may know something about something was enough of a self esteem boost to fuel you're shitting up the next thread with nothing real to say. You strike me as the type of person that MAYBE has a nugget mixed in with your fantasy knife collection. Well, if mommy let you buy a box of ammo with your allowance, I'd suggest you chamber a round & eat it, fag.
>>29993938
>We need to weaponize Mt. Everest then.
Fund it.
>>29997245
combine pls go
AI and Big Data technology will be a big hit.
>>29990409
Why not just put a computer simulation of the brain of a trained animal in the drone? So far they do that with bees.
>>29997155
I don't even own a call of duty game famalam
>>29998163
Source on this? All the videos and info I've seen are of simple tungsten projectiles
>>29998385
I'm detecting some underlying stress, anon
>>29998385
Chill radarfag
>>29998340
Next you'll claim the F-2 and K-50 are examples of convergent design.
>>29997440
My negro, this. FELs are the future, and I just can't wait until I get to see the Kaaba melted from low earth orbit
>>29997428
I want this 'can only shoot to the horizon' meme to end.
>>29999937
here you go:
https://news.usni.org/2015/06/01/navy-researching-firing-mach-5-guided-round-from-standard-deck-guns
https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/be815895f4a948a2594cf0c47555aafc6a96da0.jpg
https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/cb015498fcaa4fa3749fec45501066bcbb1daff.jpg
>>29996786
>trying
>>29996786
>India
DESIGNATED
SHITTING
PLANETS
>>29999937
Survivable Electronics for Control of Hypersonic Projectiles under Extreme Acceleration
ACQUISITION PROGRAM: Office of Naval Research EM Railgun Innovative Naval Prototype (INP)
http://www.navysbir.com/n12_1/N121-102.htm
>>29999937
Source? The fact that unguided projectiles are worthless at ranges past 50km because at that point, wind is a bigger factor than gun accuracy. Even a Platonically perfect barrel and shell would be subject to high deviations.
hence, since the US navy seems to think the gun will be useful out to 250nm, it is necessarily guided.
Or you could just google it and realize the shells come in two models, the default GPS/INS plus datalink with the standard GPS-based-weapon price of about 25 thousand USD, and a hypothetical second model with IR sensors and 250k+ price.
>>30002389
SBIR proposals are fun to read.
>>29988275
Electrolasers. Can't wait for a portable directed energy weapon.
>>29997455
Propulsion stages falling back to the ground by parachute, and reentry spaceplanes are a whole different ball game than a booster stage landing itself upright on a barge in the atlantic ocean.
how soon until the A-10 is fitted with a railgun brrrrt?
>>29997440
>says the navy
>Shows 3 black men
rip usa
>>29997455
Except its extremely new thing because the shuttle is a piece of shit, and everyone else was insisting that it was impossible
>>29996786
>implying Indians can make it to a toilet much less make it to space
