- XBLDragon029
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- Intrepid Mythic Member
[As of October 2012]
2013 ADFA Officer Cadet of the RAAF (Aerospace Engineer Electronics Officer).
How are you guys defining an 'energy shield'?
In the form of something that will deflect energy, chemical and kinetic weapons, then the answer is not in the next 50 years, at least for tanks, etc - for soldiers? Not for another 100-500 years.
The simple fact is, there is no force that can do the job safely. You could use a powerful magnetic field, but the strength required for such an application would cause the generator to tear apart from it's own forces, or at least it'd destroy anything around it.
The only feasible way we're aware of right now, is a cloud of magnetically suspended nanostructures, like carbon nanotubes, that have smart currents running through them, and which form the backing of a plasma field.
Even then, such a system would be more likely to destroy itself, harm the user, be prone to failure, require heaps of energy, and be difficult to produce.
EDIT:
The only reasonable system for the near-future is with active directed-energy (lasers & masers) self-defence weapons that can vapourise bullets and missiles.
[Edited on 12.30.2012 9:56 PM PST]