UCAS NEWS - ARES STATICWEAR
Ares has unveiled a new product today that is said may revolutionize body armor. The product called "Staticwear", utilizes sensors that detect incoming ferrous objects such as blades and projectiles, and releases an electromagnetic field, thus diverting the object by as much as 12 degrees.
We spoke with engineer David Milton today at Ares' corporate offices and research pilot facility.
"When you say '12 degrees', what does that mean?"
"Well, a bullet or knife that comes at you and is going to hit you in the chest, here," he points a finger at my chest, "would be deflected say, here." as he points to my arm. "You see, we can't stop bullets with current systems, but we can utilize this technology to make them strike places less deadly."
"How soon will this equipment be available to armed forces and law enforcement?"
"Well, we have some issues with it's development, the first one is massive disruption to electronics items on and near the wearer. It's like a tiny electromagnetic pulse wave, similar to the kind of wave used in electronic warfare, although this is much more direct and concentrated. It's a tradeoff. Heightened security for your loss of PAN for an extended period of time, it has even been known to destroy microcircuitry. We're working on ways to stabilize the pulse wave."
We'll keep you up to date as the development of this revolutionary product unfolds.
I'm Mike Halverton, UCAS News.
10 comments:
It's gonna cost more than my Doc Wagon contract.
Seen a few files on prototypes of this.
The early models had more than just the minor bits of disruption to electronics. Enough to cause problems with built-in cybernetics.
I'd advise on a pass for this one. Too high techie, too many things to go wrong. Such as running out of batteries.
Anyone know how it fares against high velocity rounds, or something heavier than your average street piece?
I can see this being used more as capture 'ware, imagine sticking a chromed up 'sammie in one and just turning it on. Incapacitating.
My god this is the worst thing a guy in this line of work could have, with the down side in a warzone its usless, and in the city all a spiders got to do when scaning teh air waves is look for the dead zone, blah,gizmos are great but their are limits between cool and over priced uslessness
Fascinating application, however. Very sci-fi, akin to a force field. Then again, we already have force fields via magicians.
Interesting... I thought this project died with the crash... I guess they recovered.
I wouldn't worry about this stuff, its the stuff behind closed doors you need to worry about.
What a load of drek. If this thing works (big if) it'll just mean that AP rounds move to a non-magnetic material, like austenitic stainless steels. Heck, the cheap shotgun ammo my buddy Chester uses'll slip past this whiz-tech. Cuz it's lead.
You know, when every doorway hides a MAD scanner and a chemsniffer, people adapt by using ceramic knives and bullet propellant that didn't trip the 'sniffer. So when someone fires a gel round at you, or tries to slip a ceramic knife between your ribs, this gear will be totally useless. As a bonus this suit kill your PAN, and also kill you by keeping DocWagon from knowing you're lying in a pool of your own blood.
Frag, I may buy a few suits of this stuff and give it to some people who 'deserve' this kind of protection.
They should develop a model that turns dandelion eaters into normals.
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