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Sam D'Amico
@sdamico
This, btw, is why every military ground vehicle will be a hybrid very soon.
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Sam D'Amico
@sdamico
Was catching up on drone battery specs and … 16kW/kg is just bananas. Helicopter turboshaft engines (sans fuel) are <10kW/kg.
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Sam D'Amico
@sdamico
- ditch complex hydraulics - give turret / anti drone systems tons of electrical power - shut the engine off while stationary and eliminate the thermal signature - have faster acceleration and likely redundancy vs. mines
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Seth Borman
@SethBorman
They're working on using electric transmissions as the first step. Batteries should be coming soon. Fuel savings is around 30%.
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A Jay
@A32jay
A turboshaft without fuel is not <10kW/kg. This is a nonsense number. Also kW is not energy but just power, two very different things. People who do not understand physics should not try to talk about it.
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A Jay
@A32jay
Are they going to bring a mobile nuclear micro power plant into the war arena to provide the electricity? People are brainwashed and to lazy to think.
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Locomotion
@AndrewZ60494543
I remember reading how during the Afghanistan war that the US military was really into solar because the trucks hauling fuel to all its bases were so vulnerable to random attacks.
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