Ukraine's Military Wants To Use the HoloLens For Its Tanks (ubergizmo.com) 56
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ubergizmo: Microsoft's HoloLens has so far been positioned as a device for gaming. However it seems that over in the Ukraine, they believe that the technology has use in the military as well, particularly by tank commanders. Given that a tank is more or less fully sealed, it means that looking around isn't quite as easy. Usually this is achieved by mounting cameras on the vehicle with the images projected inside the tank, but with the HoloLens, it will make it easier. Created by Limpid Armor, the HoloLens-enabled helmet will be dubbed the Circular Review System. The video feeds that are gathered from the cameras outside of the tank will then be stitched together and sent to the headset, thus allowing the wearer to see around the vehicle. Not only will this allow them to have a better view, but apparently the helmet will also let the wearer tag enemy and friendly soldiers, and also designate targets and send information back to the commander.
Blue screen of death (Score:2, Insightful)
Brings a new meaning to blue screen of death
ECM for phun and profit (Score:1)
So, his long until Russia uses WiFi hacking to override the video feeds, and superimpose comical cartoon characters, anti Ukrainian propaganda, or just straight up edit out enemy armor from the feed?
Maybe even use the tank cams against the Ukrainians by just monitoring the feeds and using it for intelligence purposes to target the tanks with air support.
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What on earth makes you think the cameras don't use wires that go into the tank?
Ahh, the joys of ignorance (Score:2)
Yeah, they probably won't use Wifi and a Signal would be hard to maintain even from a few inches away. That aside, did you ever notice that tanks lack wired gear hanging outside? Don't you think there is a reason for this feat of Engineering not to have wired components hanging outside? 60-75tons of metal bouncing around over and through tough terrain should immediately give you a clue why nobody uses any such technology.
US vehicles using cameras have them built in to the armor design, not added after th
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What fighting aircraft and armored vehicles typically have are called "hard points", where weapons and other gear are attached and connected to the vehicle's systems as required.
In the case of well-designed armored vehicles they are hardened to withstand/mitigate hits and damage, and knowing they are an attractive target, are often designed to be harder to penetrate/damage than other less-critical areas.
Strat
Re: Ahh, the joys of ignorance (Score:4, Interesting)
Of course this only works up to a point. A Challenger 2 during the last Iraq war was hit by 14 RPGs and an anti-tank missile, the most exxtensive damage being to its sighting system. They got it operational again in six hours after recovery.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... [wikipedia.org]
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The only T-72s Ukraine uses are these that were actually sold to some African country but were never delivered. The ukrainian tank factories only can maintain T-64 and the diesel version of T-80 because it is what they used to manufacture in the soviet times. T-72 is being built in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. This was actually the proof of Russian military helping the separatists - they have used several T-72B3, which Ukraine never had. Ukraine used to have thousands of T-72 in 1991 (older versions) , but because
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This part?
Unless you think the tank will be trailing a big fiber bundle behind it...
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Well that's one strategy the Russians could use. Alternatively, they might just try having 50 times as much of everything as whoever they're fighting.
Re: Summary starts out strong... (Score:2)
Using digital device of company headquartered in country of potential enemy is not wise
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Didn't think that Russia made the hololens.
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their other potential enemy, whose intelligence service already has meddled in their government causing civil war and other huge problems
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Lazy: unwilling to work over 40 hours uncompensated
Entitled: expecting to get paid a salary commensurate with the work being performed, not half of other people in the same job.
Where's the money coming from? (Score:1)
Ukraine is very poor. Sure, they saved some money when they stiffed Russia for their gas bill, but not enough to be able to spend on frivolous things.
How much would you bet that any work done to develop this is paid for by U.S. tax dollars so that it can all be funneled back to some big defense contractor? Probably at many times the cost of off-the-shelf HoloLenses. All justified because it has to be customized and ruggedized.
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You have a point. Russia's Military spending is a tenth of what the US spends currently, and way below that of the Soviet era. So the Russification of neighboring States has been put on hold for a decade or so. But it _will_ continue, as it has since the days of Peter the Great and his expanding Russian Empire.
If you want to understand Russia's moves, you need to consider its point of view: For Russia, NATO is an hostile expanding power at work in eastern Europe.
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Considering how much money the Russian puppet Yanukovych stole from Ukraine before he fled into the arms of Russia, and how much Russia owes Ukraine for the damage it is causing by its invasion and support of the terrorists in East Ukraine, Russia is the one who is spending money on frivolous things it can't afford.
Since we now know how much money Russia is spending [smh.com.au] to su
Re: Where's the money coming from? (Score:1)
you are an idiot. There never was a country called "ukraine" before Soviet Union. You have to thank Lenin and Stalin for creating that shitty republic out of primarily Russian territories and Russian people.
Say it - "Thank you, Lenin and Stalin, for creating my shitty ukro-republic that will soon cease to exist under its own weight".
Maybe a dumb question but... (Score:2)
why do they still need people in the tank?
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Because radio signals can be degraded completely. With UAVs at least they have altitude and clearer lines of sight to repeaters and directional laser systems. A tank rolling through a forest or city streets doesn't have that luxury.
I've worked with HoloLens (Score:4, Interesting)
In the news today.... (Score:3)
star trek did it (Score:2)
Battlezone (Score:2)