Obsolete weapons

"George Ruch" wrote in message
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"John Keeney" wrote:


"George Ruch" wrote in message
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The question is would you want to do that if recognizing those sounds
and
being able to place them in your field of hearing could be the
difference
between life and death in a firefight? In that case, simple
attenuation
may be the better solution.

Yes.
You can't just arbitrarily clip the power of a wave form very much
and leave it a recognizable sound. [...]
Simply blanking out moments of excess volume would leave the
troops walking deafly around corners in to firing muzzles.

Perhaps you could substitute a tone that changed in frequency
based on the noise level to let the user know there's loud noises about.

Possible, but with everything else going on (HUDs, data links, etc.) we're
quickly entering the realm of Heinlein's powered suits from _Starship
Troopers_ (the original book, not the movie). There's a description in
the
book a system that would make a fighter pilot feel right at home.

Power is one of the two or three things that are holding the military
up in adopting exoskeletons: prototypes -or perhaps proof of concept units-
have been demonstrated and they are nothing short of amazing in what
they allow the wearer to do.

I have a copy around here somewhere. I'll dig it out when I can.

I suspect most of us in RAM have a copy lurking about some where.

Directed energy weapons are dang near here and power suits might
not be that far behind.

"John Keeney" wrote:


"George Ruch" wrote in message
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Possible, but with everything else going on (HUDs, data links, etc.) we're
quickly entering the realm of Heinlein's powered suits from _Starship
Troopers_ (the original book, not the movie). There's a description in
the book of a system that would make a fighter pilot feel right at home.

Power is one of the two or three things that are holding the military
up in adopting exoskeletons: prototypes -or perhaps proof of concept units-
have been demonstrated and they are nothing short of amazing in what
they allow the wearer to do.

Interesting. I'll have to look that up.

power demands, there's a discussion upthread concerning a shortage of
field battery packs. Makes me wonder if we should become even more
technology dependent.

Directed energy weapons are dang near here and power suits might
not be that far behind.

Airborne laser systems, some of the Star Wars stuff. Makes me want very
much to know there's a sane person in control of the fire button.

| George Ruch
| "Is there life in Clovis after Clovis Man?"

In message , George Ruch
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"John Keeney" wrote:
Perhaps you could substitute a tone that changed in frequency
based on the noise level to let the user know there's loud noises about.

Possible, but with everything else going on (HUDs, data links, etc.) we're
quickly entering the realm of Heinlein's powered suits from _Starship
Troopers_ (the original book, not the movie). There's a description in the
book a system that would make a fighter pilot feel right at home.

Heinlein understood the virtue of simplicity and transparency, when it
came to equipment.

"This leaves you with your whole mind free to handle your weapons and
notice what is going on around you... which is *supremely* important to
an infantryman who wants to die in bed. If you load a mudfoot down with
a lot of gadgets that he has to watch, someone a lot more simply
equipped - say with a stone ax - will sneak up and bash his head in
while he is trying to read a vernier."

--
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
Julius Caesar I:2

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