Soldiers Going Electric. #shorts#army

[fieldkitchen]

During desert storm they were shipping 5 tons of batteries per day to keep troops up to date with fresh batteries. Would love to have had that contract.

[newo]

Can't wait for the new humvies to not start because the battery's too hot in the desert

[TheRusted_Crown]

Correct me if I’m wrong but if they have all electric stuff wouldn’t it take one EMP to essentially disable everything on the battlefield?

[heydaddy]

Instead of going all electric they should go for hybrid

[ngelorum]

Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen

[TheDeadmandillon]

All them soldiers are immediately gonna wanna go right back to fuel injected engines after that one Carl fucks up and doesn't get that one goddamn unit charged fully. Then you're gonna be yelling at the enemy going "Can you come back in two hours?" That bullshit all electric trash won't last.

[strickersniper]

How would the army get power to the vehicles a war zone where there is no electricity

[OperatorKevlar]

When I saw the tactical cybertruck, the first thing in my head was "How are they even gonna hit this, its just gonna ricochet everytime."

[jamesolbrisch]

They already said the electric vehicles are only to fill support rolls. Combat elements will still use internal combustion

[bravo]

I forgot the actual name for people that are experts in batteries, but the people that have that degree and the certs in that field they earn close to $100k as an entry level

[moredac]

There’s about 350 million barrels of oil in the US strategic reserve. US Army (just Army) uses about 100 million barrels a year. I think electrification is key to keeping a sustained fighting force in a drawn out conflict, especially in the eventuality that middle eastern countries are not friendlies.

[stingginner]

For those people concerned with EV and EMP. Any thing with a microchip that is not hardened to protect from EMP is toast. Almost all vehicles are not hardened. Not sure about the M-1 Tank or other AFVs. Air Force F15, F-16 F-22, F-35, B2, B-21 etc. are hardened. Electronics that use tubes are only effected for the time the EMP goes through it. Then it works again. The Russians are about 80 years ahead of the west on tube technology.

[arecane]

Electric tank? Electric combat aircraft? ( No not a little RC dropping one grenade at a time.) Electric cargo vehicles? To carry the fuel to run the generator to charge the cargo vehicle?

[ravenbadger]

For the amount of heavy shit we gotta carry good fuckin luck

[LenKusov]

The underappreciated aspect of this is the sheer amount of megawatt-hours it'd take just to keep all those vehicles rolling, you'd need either an old submarine reactor on a lowboy rolling along with your convoys or a combined-cycle liquid-fueld gas turbine powerplant just to keep things going unless you wanna spend a week setting up all the solar panels and wind turbines to charge your convoy from one day of movement. The nuclear option's probably the practical and environmental one, but who knows if they wanna effectively commission 2/3 of a nuclear sub for every single convoy...

[DoritoGaming]

imagine a soldier just carrying a 10kg battery then dropping it, squad leader is pissed...

[heavymetalweld]

Extension cords running all through out the battlefield. Bwahahaha

[johnnyfletes]

Ahh yes can’t wait for the electric gunpowder

[IMANTHRYLOS]

And how do you store, ship and procure electricity in the battlefield? Furthermore do you have a few hours to charge a vehicle when it travels to the neighbouring city?
A better option would be to use hybrid electric. It has the best of both worlds.

[yourfriendlygiantknightofd]

Bruh imagine one of these vehicles exploding that would for sure be the worst way to die on a battlefield.