I would say "hell yeah!" but since this is military warfare, I don't know if I should be happy or not.

hell yeah!

The future is closer than we might think.

This could make the future of warfare veeery interesting in the coming decades.

Well, time will tell if its cost-efficient to implement those "shields" or add an extra layer of armor plating.

Oh great!

Now exploiting poor countries will be even easier!

I think the invisibility cloak scientists just constructed is getting to people's heads.

It be even better when they make one for the soldiers themselves. But i don't know how they would do that.

Please tell me they plan on calling this an AT field...

Now tanks could play Pong! Imagine firing a rocket from between two tanks equipped with this, then running away. RPG bounces off of one, goes toward the other, then back. If either of them miss reflecting it someone nearby would have a very bad day.

Huzzah! Better ways to kill people!

I can see MW3 already.

"SHIELDS UP"

Ooooh Eeeem Geeee!!! DO WANT! Magnetic shields - that's just awesome!

Yeeeeeah yeaaaaah yeaaaaah!

IamQ:
I would say "hell yeah!" but since this is military warfare, I don't know if I should be happy or not.

It's for defense. It's supposed to prevent deaths, rather than cause them. Theoretically, at least.

Arkhangelsk:
The future is closer than we might think.

You are wrong! THE FUTURE IS ALREADY HERE!

A fucking FORCE FIELD?!

In 20-50 years there's going to be some seriously futuristic warfare, with all of these force fields and invisibilty cloaks and so on.

This is all good and fine, but how long do you think it's going to take for the [Chinese/Russians/Taliban/Argentinians/Germans] (delete as appropriate) to ionize their projectiles such that the shielding will instead cause the weapons to do MORE damage?

I'm more for the Americans approach of LASER-ing enemy projectiles. Much more reliable. The only place this method would truly be worth considering is to protect infantry from shrapnel. Which generally doesn't effect armoured vehicles.

Was I the only one that thought "Polarize the Hull-Plating" when they saw this?

Whose idea was this?

"Hmmm, those middle-eastern countries, they have some really fancy weapons and we need to be a 100 steps ahead of them so we can conquer them before lunch."

Still no flying cars. WHERE ARE YOU FLYING CARS!?

And It's British! this almost salvages my national pride!

"shields up, red alert!"

Here's the thing about cool sci-fi tech, it is just like every thing else. It is easier to say you're making this sensational thing like shields as a first step to star trek deflectors to grab headlines. Most of the time, the invention either doesn't pan out, or like some Sony's stuff isn't quite as neat as they said it would be. I haven't heard much from those cloaking field, hydrogen cell, cold fusion, airship, rocket pants engineers past their statements 'were close to completing (blank)'. I'm not saying don't try to make it, but don't oversell it either.

Thats friggin awesome. When Do I get it? XD

And so the second British Empire begins...mmuuuuuhhhhaaaaaa!

The really cool thing about this though is if it does work then the only way to blow up a tank would be with a laser cannon. Then maybe you could put this technology in body aromor to reflect bullets! Then all of the worlds battles would be fought with laser guns!

Electro-magnetism, eh? So where'd they find the Eezo?

Laser-point-defence is where its at, bitches!

"The British are coming!"
"On ship?!"
"Flying tanks with force fields!"
"WERE FUCKED!"

I'm extremely skeptical. An applied current can generate a magnetic field strong enough to deflect a warhead before the shaped charge has properly impacted and had a chance to form yes, but it would take a hell of a large capacitor to produce the kind of voltages needed to deflect any projectile that is coming in at rocket speeds. The timing I'm certain could be perfected... but one rocket followed immediately by another would be a very bad time to find out that you don't have enough juice to get the job done.

formless777:
That doesn't sound like it will work. I hope it isn't tax dollars wasted.

It doesn't sound like it will work therefore it won't? What a well formed opinion.
Also, there are no tax dollars involved since it's a British idea.
Did you even read the post?

I remember earlier that these guys were also developing invisible tanks. Maybe they could combine the two, but just make invisible "shield generator" vehicles that could ride ahead of the rest of the personnel/vehicles and protect them from incoming warheads.

soapyshooter:
Still no flying cars. WHERE ARE YOU FLYING CARS!?

People are already dumb as shit when driving and you want to put them behind a flying vehicle?