NonCredibleDefense @sh.itjust.works Turbonics @lemmy.sdf.org 4h ago

Hyundai unveils world’s first hydrogen-powered, silent stealth battle tank

www.yahoo.com Hyundai unveils world’s first hydrogen-powered, silent stealth battle tank

The K3 will be powered by hydrogen fuel cells and feature other advanced tech to become one of the world's most sophisticated tanks.

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Does noise really matter that much on a modern battlefield with one surveillance drone every 200 meters?
- the other feature is low to no heat, so these things are like tank drop bears
  
  drop bears
  
  Instance checks out
Famously transporting large volumes of hydrogen has never gone wrong and hydrogen charging stations have proven very reliable and also hydrogen as an alternative to electric is definitely not a ploy by big oil to keep drilling for fossil fuels!

Good job hyundai 👍 Very credible 👍🏿
- No no, it’s credible because it decreases the ground weight, and if you fill it up enough, it can just float over AT mines 🤓
  
  Hmmm 🤔
- In the case of military vehicles, hydrogen is about the greenest option that we're gonna get. No one is going to make a battery powered AFV, because where the fuck would you charge it?
  
  Who if not the Germans built an electric tank in 2020 https://efahrer.chip.de/news/geraeuschlose-einsaetze-weltweit-erster-elektro-panzer-kommt-aus-deutschland_103179
  
  Sounds crazy at first but comes with some good advantages: it can cross rivers as it doesn’t need air for combustion, it’s silent, and you can load it anywhere at the battle field if you have solar panels, time and sun. Still you can rely on military logistics to carry a swap battery. But isn’t the military supply chain the first target to disrupt? My two cents, this is the next thing at battle fields.
  
  Oh, and if all your equipment runs on electricity, you can load and reload power at your needs. Tank needs power but car not? Combat robot out if power and car is full? Transfer the power
  
  Isn’t hydrogen even more flammable and explosive than petroleum. Just seems like a dumb idea to put that in a military vehicle.
  
  You'd probably want a quick swap battery and charging far from the front lines.
- hydrogen as an alternative to electric is definitely not a ploy by big oil to keep drilling for fossil fuels!
  
  What are you talking about?
  
  Basically all of hydrogen production is sourced from fossil fuels.
If in video standards the decision made by the porn industry is decisive, I believe that in the energies of the future the decision made by the military industry will be the one that prevails.
- I'll eat my socks if hydrogen powered tanks are actually purchased by any military. Hydrogen will literally never be a viable transportation fuel

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