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Posted: 10/6/2016 8:38:16 AM EDT
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Hmm, so watch part size fuzes. Cool. Probably really expensive though.
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Posted: 10/6/2016 9:51:44 AM EDT
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I understood less of that than I would have liked to.
But what I did understand was pretty cool. |
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Posted: 10/6/2016 1:30:12 PM EDT
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Hmm, so watch part size fuzes. Cool. Probably really expensive though. Just the opposite. You can make big batches of them automatically. MEMS is like printing 50 copies of a functioning mechanical watch. |
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Posted: 10/6/2016 1:33:25 PM EDT
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They are also making the firing circuits entirely integrated along with a MEMs initiator.
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Posted: 10/6/2016 2:08:34 PM EDT
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The printing integration between the different types of on board systems is literally space age shit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microelectromechanical_systems |
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Posted: 10/6/2016 2:39:50 PM EDT
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Just the opposite. You can make big batches of them automatically. MEMS is like printing 50 copies of a functioning mechanical watch. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Hmm, so watch part size fuzes. Cool. Probably really expensive though. Just the opposite. You can make big batches of them automatically. MEMS is like printing 50 copies of a functioning mechanical watch. Yes, this. It has the ability to scale in ways similar to microchip fabrication where it's more like "printing" than assembly. And as noted, they can incorporate electronics into MEMS devices easily for hybrid computer/digital and mechanical functions. At a minimum, it means there's a lot more room for explosives and fragments, and room/weight saved that can go for all sorts of other things, like a stand-off proximity sensor, like a mini-radar in the nose essentially that can set these off for airburst, or for proper distance to fire a anti-armor inverted cone shaped charge/copper jet type warhead. All sorts of things. |
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Posted: 10/6/2016 5:00:27 PM EDT
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Cool. Check this out. http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2014armaments/Wed16557Steelman.pdf
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Posted: 10/7/2016 11:08:59 AM EDT
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Yes, this. It has the ability to scale in ways similar to microchip fabrication where it's more like "printing" than assembly. And as noted, they can incorporate electronics into MEMS devices easily for hybrid computer/digital and mechanical functions. At a minimum, it means there's a lot more room for explosives and fragments, and room/weight saved that can go for all sorts of other things, like a stand-off proximity sensor, like a mini-radar in the nose essentially that can set these off for airburst, or for proper distance to fire a anti-armor inverted cone shaped charge/copper jet type warhead. All sorts of things. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Hmm, so watch part size fuzes. Cool. Probably really expensive though. Just the opposite. You can make big batches of them automatically. MEMS is like printing 50 copies of a functioning mechanical watch. Yes, this. It has the ability to scale in ways similar to microchip fabrication where it's more like "printing" than assembly. And as noted, they can incorporate electronics into MEMS devices easily for hybrid computer/digital and mechanical functions. At a minimum, it means there's a lot more room for explosives and fragments, and room/weight saved that can go for all sorts of other things, like a stand-off proximity sensor, like a mini-radar in the nose essentially that can set these off for airburst, or for proper distance to fire a anti-armor inverted cone shaped charge/copper jet type warhead. All sorts of things. Think fuses in 50cal, along with those guided 50cal bullets. Think an artillerary shell with not hundreds of anti-tank bomblets, but thousands of guided anti personel projectiles. |
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Posted: 10/7/2016 4:10:55 PM EDT
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These are mechanical fuzes, just scaled down and optimized for mass production. They are really not much different than the (non-electric) fuzes we've been using since WWII... just smaller. I suspect guided 50 cals will be electro-mechanical.
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Posted: 10/7/2016 10:32:18 PM EDT
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These are mechanical fuzes, just scaled down and optimized for mass production. They are really not much different than the (non-electric) fuzes we've been using since WWII... just smaller. I suspect guided 50 cals will be electro-mechanical. MEMS integrates with ICs just fine. |
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