• BluesF@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    The next-generation tank will have stronger preemptive strike capabilities using an artificial intelligence-based fire control system

    Well that’s disturbing. I wonder what level of buzz word AI this is? Safe to assume computer vision is involved, target/threat identification… Does “preemptive strike” imply the fire control system is firing by itself? I know it’s not the case but it’s hilarious to imagine it’s ChatGPT doing it.

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      3 days ago

      My heart smiles at the thought of the first crew to actually command this thing in a war zone pulling security on some unknown pile of rubble and being awoken at 0347 by their tank unexpectedly dumping its entire payload on an “enemy” that it hallucinated.

      Granted, dumb privates do this too, but it’s funnier to think about the tank doing it all by itself.

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    My brain just doesn’t want to accept the idea of a stealth tank. It kind of feels like building a stealth monster truck, or creating sugar free Pez. It’s like being loud is part of what it’s supposed to do.

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      Not to fet credible, but from a treeline 2km away a properly disguised tank can be pretty stealthy. Same concept of stealth aircraft, yeah if its close you’re gonna see it, but if passive and active sensors can pick it up till visual range, well mighty fine way to sneak a platoon of tanks into an otherwise ‘observed’ area while looking like little more than a couple of civilian vehicles or migrating animals to a radar, or dull spot to thermals.

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    powered by hydrogen fuel cells

    I don’t think the logistics for hydrogen fuel cells will help in actual combat situations, though it’s expected to enter operation in 2040 anyway.

    autonomous driving and slave drones

    Hopefully one that actually works. As for the drones, I guess for reconnaissance?

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      You can load a truck with fuel cells to extend range beyond what the current infrastructure can handle.

      It’s more complicated with batteries that need to be charged. Sure, there’s a grid in many places, but if combat capability depends on the grid, it’ll get targetted. And even before that, capacity is a concern and if the grid can handle a tank battalion wanting to plug in every tank so they can be ready for whatever comes next ASAP.

      Fuel cells mean they can set up behind the front lines and use power more predictably and refuel tanks quicker than gas.

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        I never really understood what fuel cells have to do with hydrogen, and why it’s a more appealing form factor than removing a vehicle’s gas tank and instead just putting in a manifold with room for a number of some standard of gas can with valves fitted. It’s not an inherently “hydrogen” thing.

        Besides, it’s fully possible to set up a bunch of gas cans from a truck in the same way you could set up a bunch of hydrogen “fuel cells”.

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          By my understanding fuel cells are less about form factor, and more about directly converting the fuel into electricity across a membrane, like how batteries operate, so like a battery that takes in Hydrogen on one terminal and Oxygen on the other, being more efficient than burning it in an engine and trying to recapture some of that as electricity after thermal and friction losses have eaten into it.

          So it is more a replacement for the engine than it is for the fuel tank. Wikipedia

  • jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Famously transporting large volumes of hydrogen has never gone wrong and hydrogen charging stations have proven very reliable and also hydrogen as an alternative to electric is definitely not a ploy by big oil to keep drilling for fossil fuels!

    Good job hyundai 👍 Very credible 👍🏿