Absolutely brilliant idea! Basically a suped-up alternator + battery pack, FFR now joined by FFE

This is pretty practical. Heat sig reduction, availability and the need for gadgets. Use what you have, more wisely.

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Absolutely fantastic invention stealth mode

6 seconds into the video you can see a massive diesel generator on the right, anyone that has served knows how loud these are

This is a box ticking exercise, not only are we diverse we are environmentally friendly when fighting wars.

Me thinks that the houchin behind the landy is doing most of the legwork. Still it is good to see that the big wigs are beginning to think about fighting in a modern asymmetric battlefield.

Anything that reduces sound and heat signature in the harbour area is a good idea.

So basically a Hybrid land rover

What's a magnetic grappling hook with rope food for? Firearm fishing.

1:40 "kilowatt HOURS" is energy - which you're storing for later use. That energy is stored by the generator taking "kilowatts" of power from the engine while it's running. It enables silent running of accessories at the cost of greater (noisier, hotter, higher fuel consumption, greater weight) in advance of a stop? I don't see how it improves resupply - the same amount of fuel must be consumed, arguably more due to inefficiencies of store-and-return? I guess the future must be electrically-driven vehicles (like Nissan e-Power) with effort spent on optimising the generator side so it's ever more efficient.

Battery swaps are quicker .so having a dock of battery ready and being charged to be swaped is missing I guess . Cool 😎 upgrade . Welcome to the future.

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Could it be possible to use a bike to get power for a tank engine, cause then it could be magnetic and draw in enemy fire which is beneficial because... And if it moves fast enough it would be possible to clear a whole entire front of any threats leaving people behind obviously

Army solution to going green cause they can't afford 100% eletric. So fitting a old.shoe with with a new sole. Wen it leaves camp it still shoots black smoke.

The maths and calcs don't add up for me. Vehicle engine, using the accessory belt, creates enough energy to power a UK household for a day and doesn't use any more fuel than usual. That gives the vehicle 72hrs of capability? Maybe 72hrs of radio but clearly not of propulsion. Hybrid cars with far bigger batteries and far lower vehicle weights get 30km in good weather. Sorry but something is off there. The "e machine" is just an alternator. Great marketing.

Nice .. cerebral army .

9 SQN Rupert he must know what he’s talking about

I dread to think how they're over paying for a dressed up alternator and battery....

The theory is commendable but we have to look at history of generation of electricity from military vehicle engines. What has been found time after time is you overload these engines and end up with unreliability. It happened with the Jaguar engine where there were too many peripherals for the capacity of the engine. The military must stop trying to add accessories to the prime mover unit as originally conceived. First calculate your electrical load as required at maximum today. Now double it then add the prime transport power required. These were lessons known to REME well over 50 years ago. We did a standard test under electrical training. We put an 18 inch crank on a 12 v generator from a car and excited the field. The best ability anybody ever managed was 7v field excitation. That proved the massive engine loads these huge generators exerted. Maybe some of these designers should try the same test. I suspect that the reliability of the Rover engine will decrease as the electrical generation system increases. It is not rocket science it was being taught ove4 fifty years ago.

Nice ! Best forces on the world, tanks for vide guys.

Land-rover can with stand all enemy attacks.. ARMOUR is close to a tank.

Looking at that junk I would say your FFR alternator would be much better. Remember you can always fit an electric drive to the back of the transfer gearbox to give you silent drive for the Land Rover.

This is good, Thermals always catch vehicles out. Its intresting to see stuff like this. Allows a vehicles to be more self sufficient.

Son: What did you do during the war dad? Dad: I served with Experimentation and Trials Group son. It was great until someone with GCSE Physics pointed out that the energy conversion efficiency is defined as the useful energy output (benefit) divided by energy input (cost) and we realised we were actually creating an energy and logistics deficit - never mind the time and effort wasted. But God bless the taxpayer son!

Just as long as you guys don’t make the Challenger hybrid this will be a great addition.

Takes 6 months to get a 110 wiper blade 😂

EMP anyone?

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Идея, на первый взгляд, неплохая, но на войне у гибридов больше минусов, чем плюсов. Плюсы: скрытность, малошумность, дополнительный запас хода на электротяге, экономия топлива. Минусы: сложность, дороговизна, громоздкая инфраструктура, лишний вес батарей, плохая работа батарей при отрицательных температурах. Последний недостаток перевешивает всё. Также не надо забывать, что война - это не прогулка, а испытание людей и техники на пределе их возможностей, и заявленные 72 часа автономного хода на электротяге - ложь.

yeah brilliant until you go to a cold environments & you see EV voltage depleting, performance, range all reduced.... lets also see the testing of this in a off road arena, where by more power is required.... again ALL EV, silent, covert, stealthy that's were the issues will be highlighted & yes, that's where EV vehicles have all failed to date!! aka cold weather, environments etc light off-road capabilities for vehicles converted, ALL get massively hindered that's why in current abilities/technology EV is stalling (even road vehicles its going backwards) off-road stealth, silence etc brillliant for the military goals, arena.. then you've massive weights involved, reduced payloads (reduces capabilities) as mentioned this all hinders off-road travel, then add to the mix cold weather & it gets even worse, mix to that incredibly poor ground conditions &you've a nightmare ie ICE engines come to play, you've then got more weight to deal with you your still struggling &with all the other negative effects....... overall "not good" ... I see yet anothr light skinned vehicle, in a combat arena disaster coming up

Isn't it about time we retired the good ol' Defender? It hasn't been built since 2014. Replace with something that has all this capability already built in

Where’s the ARFAT the TUAAM and the HF antenna as back up? 🫢

Keep these Land Rovers on the road should be a war crime, invest in new vehicles!

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We all know the landrover is a POS

Why don't you just use immigrants?

Why bother worrying about the environmental damage during a war?