07-13-2007, 12:16 PM
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Re: New US military technology: force field
That's the Trophy system. We've discussed that a number of times over the last 6 months. Of course, you'd have to actually have been paying attention to posts in this forum to know that. Not surprisingly, the M....nevermind. 
Never the less, Trophy is the system that Lisa Myers and NBC did a story on saying in claiming the US was letting soldiers die by not using it in Iraq. Some posters in here started threads on the very story and system as a result. The Israeli's have been working on this system for some time, and it has not been field tested (at least not as of last year IIRC). Anyhow, very little is publically known about the system for obvious reasons. Some have said that the US has purposely ignored using the system because it is not US made, and therefore we want to wait till a US manufacturer finishes a system that is currently being developed. Where this could very well be true (Shaq did get traded), the telling fact regarding Trophy is that the Israeli's, the nation that developed this system, did not use it in their war in Lebanon last year. Why not? Either the system is not ready, or there may be some hitch. In researching the system, most people conclude many different things. Some feel that the power needs of the system are overtaxing individual vehicle electrical systems, who are already at limits due to radio, infrared, and other assorted program requirements. Others feel that the system would not be safe to use in an urban setting where exploding projectiles would be a danger to friendly, and civilian persons. There are also questions about the added weight of the system, the ability to be able to turn it off, whether it has multiple, or single defense capability (meaning defends from one projectile and then must be manually loaded from the outside), and it's cost. It's rumored to cost around $300,000 per vehicle. With so little publically known about the system, it's difficult to know anything for sure. What seems glaring to me however, is the fact that the Israeli's did not use it in Lebanon.
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