Is this technology possible ?

[EmoBorg]

I came across this video about a possible future technology. The idea is fanatastic but is it possible ? It looks realistic enough.

It is a Russian animation. Guess who is the target ?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXWJrpA8FnE

 

[CorporalCaptain]

A description of what the technology is would be nice, instead of requiring people to watch a YouTube video that's both 12 minutes long and that has a cryptic title.

 

[Amaris]

Long description: In the video, a russian transport, under guise of a "fresh fruit" semi-truck and tractor trailer, stops near a U.S. airbase, and quickly deploys itself, turning into a giant drone, by which to drop bombs on the airbase. Then, as the airfield sits in ruins, it returns to its original form of being a tractor trailer/truck, and leaves undetected. Seriously, it takes it 12 minutes to say what I just did in short paragraphs. In short, it's a masturbatory fantasy that most assuredly would not happen in our lifetimes, and that's accepting the hilarious implausibility of the scenario itself, which really is just so much jerking off.


Short description: Wankery, but with transformers.


So to answer the OP: While it might be "possible," it's highly improbable, and the scenario just would not happen this way.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

^ Thanks. I won't bother with it, then.

 

[Amaris]

^ Thanks. I won't bother with it, then.

Yeah, it is a waste of 12 minutes. I didn't even watch all of it. I jumped ahead 30 seconds at a time. Like I said, it took it that long to actually do what I just explained in a paragraph. I guess that's so whoever is watching it can get lubed up and the stroking rhythm down.

 

[Mary Ann]

As a mod of this forum I had no choice but to watch it, but stopped halfway. That six minutes of my life I'll never get back.

EmoBorg, I'm letting you off with a friendly this time for not posting a proper description of the video in the OP. Please edit that post accordingly and we'll keep this thread open for now as long as a reasonable on-topic discussion is maintained, though it's questionable if that's possible on this subject.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

There was a video like this making the rounds a while back, and it was similarly a Russian propaganda piece designed to make Russian military capabilities look far more advanced than they are. I wouldn't lend it much credence.

ETA: I just watched long enough to see where it starts shooting, and really, it's blowing up dozens of planes on the ground with something akin to a Vulcan cannon? An absolute joke. As soon as that thing got off the ground SAM radar would detect it and blow it out of the sky. Quadcopters don't move very quickly and a huge one like in the video would be no exception. Not to mention, GUNS DO NOT MAKE THINGS EXPLODE.

This may be fap material for Putin but that's about it.

 

[sojourner]

Didn't watch the video, but based on J.'s description, if such a thing were built at some point in the future I could see a new policy of "shoot on sight" for any fresh fruit trucks spotted.

 

[Trekker4747]

It's easy to watch movies and videos like this and assume any "transformation" would happen within seconds. In the real-world, however, machines are large, clunky, and slow. Without tremendously overpowering the hydraulics, gears, pumps and whateverelse in the device it's going to take it probably the better part of a few minutes to "transform." That's a few minutes that it is potentially vulnerable and can be detected.

It ends up in a cost/benefit thing. Is it cheaper to build a transformer that could potentially give itself up before it gets a chance to do anything meaningful or is it cheaper to just go with a standard drone and try and slip it through defenses to get your shot in or do whatever damage you can before being downed?

 

[StarCruiser]

No power source or fuel in the drone, no clear sign of a targeting system etc... Basically, your standard Spy movie crap...

 

[bbjeg]

I agree with it being BS. It gives its targets an ample amount of time for detecting it.

 

[scotthm]

GUNS DO NOT MAKE THINGS EXPLODE.

Guns don't make things explode, firing pins make things explode.

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[Trekker4747]

I agree with it being BS. It gives its targets an ample amount of time for detecting it.

Hell, that whole process of it putting the rotors into the hubs would probably take the better part of an hour. Nothing could be that quick and perfect.

 

[Metryq]

Is the technology possible? Sure, and so are most of the gimmicks used by Wile E. Coyote, but that doesn't make them the least bit practical—just funny, or pathetic, depending on your sense of humor.

 

[Amaris]

Didn't watch the video, but based on J.'s description, if such a thing were built at some point in the future I could see a new policy of "shoot on sight" for any fresh fruit trucks spotted.

Yeah, no one's going to believe in such a thing as a fresh fruit truck.

Seriously, though, that video was hilariously bad.

 

[Trekker4747]

Is the technology possible? Sure, and so are most of the gimmicks used by Wile E. Coyote...

Really! Oooo!

:: runs off to walk off a cliff to see he won't fall unless he realizes he's no longer supported by ground ::

 

[Silvercrest]

Okay folks-- due to circumstances beyond Acme's control, Trekker will be absent from the thread for some time.

 

[scotpens]

I came across this video about a possible future technology. The idea is fanatastic but is it possible ? It looks realistic enough.

In the Gerry Anderson universe, maybe. I kept expecting International Rescue to show up and save the day.

 

[Bisz]

Didn't watch the video, but based on J.'s description, if such a thing were built at some point in the future I could see a new policy of "shoot on sight" for any fresh fruit trucks spotted.

Yeah, no one's going to believe in such a thing as a fresh fruit truck.

The Russians have banned imports on EU fruits and veggies and are experiencing major shortages. You would think they'd eat whatever little they have rather than using it to camouflage their wanks.

 

[JES]

Didn't watch the video, but based on J.'s description, if such a thing were built at some point in the future I could see a new policy of "shoot on sight" for any fresh fruit trucks spotted.

I agree. Maybe it would work once, but the U.S. military isn't stupid or reaction-less, like the animator seems to want to believe.

The military would adapt strategies to make sure that something like this wouldn't work twice, and the drones would probably be on the receiving end of a SAM as soon as they were airborne.

I will give the animator this much: he's good, but what the hell does he have against the U.S. military?
I mean, the Russian military haven't exactly been saints as of late (oh wait, when is they last time that actually did the world any good for that matter?)