If force field shields became an actual thing, but the energy they emit would make it very hard to be stealthy.And a man portable one would be able to stop a 50 cal, but with limited time usage since kt would gorge on the power pack.How would they be employed?
If something hits you close enough to trigger your personal energy shield, you´re kinda past the point of stealth anyways.
>>65022890i imagine it would be something that automatically activates in response to threats to reduce energy usage, sorta like ERA which would also help with maintaining stealthiness because you’re right they should light up like a star on sensors
>>65022890Just like APS. It activates when something comes at you super fast and then turns off.
Hey that's great and all but how would it actually work in the first place? Now how would it react or save power, but what's causing it to actually stop something?!
>>65022972it’s actually something we’re working on already although some people might not consider it a classic force fieldhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_armour
>>65022890You don't want to activate shields until you know you're being attacked and want to turn them off as part of breaking contact. A lot of that's going to be on the individuals and NCOs. >>65022934>>65022963You'd also want an option to turn the system off entirely. An enemy could game the APS by spamming cheap and low caliber rounds into bushes and suspected targets. These shots would be too weak to reliably kill someone but the shields would flare up and give away their position.
>>65022890How its used would also depend on how long it takes to boot up and how long the battery lasts. If its slow to deploy and short lasting, maybe it would give you a minute of protection out of the landing craft like temporary spawn invincibility in vid games.
>>65022890People would give up on firearms altogether and go back to bum-fighting each other with knives.t. Frank Herbert
>>65022890either used for close quarters building clearing (but why not just use normal riot shields?)or for clearing trenches (do they survive granade sharpnel though?) or maybe during WW1 tier trench charges (we've seen those already in modernity)
