Why don't they just invent stronger metal and put it on tanks? Artillery and anti tank missiles btfo
>>64481559"Invent new metals" lol
Tungsten armor is too expensive if thats what you mean.
>>64481593You'd have been blow away when they first made steel
>>64481559Sexy.>>64481602Yeah I wondered that but depleted uranium has to be, in price terms at least, expensive
>>64481623Steel wasn't a new metal, just a new alloy, and was done back when humanity was insanely primitive and had no idea what the elements were or atoms or matter in general worked. There aren't any "new metals" to find or invent, unless maybe the island of stability both pans out AND has decent other properties AND can be made for less than $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$/kg and thus isn't merely a lab experiment. Nanomaterial stuff might someday enhance armor a bit more, but it'll be chasing diminishing gains.The real answer:>Artillery and anti tank missiles btfoactive defense is the name of the game now OP. Reactive armor has been a thing for a long time of course, but more and more DEWs, active kinetic interceptors and so on. That'll be the new armsrace.
>>64481559They did. Then better anti-tank missiles came out. >ArtilleryCan't armor treads.
>>64481651Well a new alloy or new material then
>>64481651I think I read about ultrastiff metamaterials once. Can't find the details atm though.
>>64481559Apocalypse looks ugly, is there a Rhino and Grizzly?
>>64481690>>64481651if you guys want the sad answer, the reality is that once you send a fast enough projectile at something, the binding forces between a matrix of metal atoms just kind of stops mattering, the projectile itself does not have this disadvantage, as it can completely lose all structural integrity and still be a relatively bullet-shaped mass heading towards the target and through the armor with each individual atom having so much momentum that it just keeps going.that's why modern composite armor attempts to deflect and dilute as much of this momentum as possible over a larger area through many many layers of hard, heavy materials that hit the projectile and damage/fracture it, and soft plastically deforming layers that absorb the force and transfer it more slowly.a single homogenous metal simply cannot compare, even if you made it 3x as dense and made it's atomic bonds require much more energy to break.
>>64481559the retards don't event use adamantium or mithrilbasically they are evil and want tankers to die probably for fiscal zionist raisins
>you cant armor threads.You can link the Power train togheter so It keeps going After One Is destroyed by adding redundancy
>>64481782hey man if you got rune tank armor I can trim it for you
>>64481559>Why don't they just invent stronger metal and put it on tanks?Because if you could just invent magically stronger metals you'd be too busy counting the trillions of dollars you'd be getting from using/licensing it for civilian use to be thinking much about tanks.
>>64481559what do you think composite armor was
>>64481651You'd be surprised how much perfecting the micro-structure of existing metals strengthens them. If we could remove any impurities or mini-fractures, there's still room to make metals like titanium much stronger than they are currently.
>>64481559Rivers, bridges, roads, recovery, and air mobility.
>>64481593>nooo you can't invent new metals>you can't just make planes noo>no no stop making Mind/Machine Interfaces>no stoooop>noooYou can talk to me when you figure out handgonnes.
>>64481559Why don't they just make them out of diamond, the hardest metal?
>>64481645DU isn't that pricey because there's virtually no civilian applications for it.
>>64481559>Why don't they just (insanely advanced achievement)?I don't know, Anon. Maybe they're just waiting for you personally to wander into their labs and tell them how to fucking do it.
