Search results

It may be possible to set the shield with a dial-a-density setting so that a soldier can hit a button to switch to "airtight" mode when needed and breath when it's not. It could even potentially be connected to a chemical sensor that automatically protects the soldier when poison gas is...

What I mean is that shields can clearly be dialed to prevent gasses from entry because we see it done, therefore infantry shields could be made to prevent gas entry. The soldier in question would need an air tank but that's not exactly rare technology, and the military would need to be as sharp...

Ask Frank Herbert. The way shields work has no small amount of wonky involved, and it's one of those "author didn't fully think through the implications" which is fine since the books weren't really about the technology and the shields were just an excuse to have matters settled with knife...

I don't think it's said specifically but if they didn't interpenetrate, it wouldn't make sense for a shielded guy with a knife to be able to stab another shielded guy with a knife. However I believe shielded objects still have to move below the speed threshold, hence Paul moving his hand too...

Shields can also be applied to buildings so artillery is probably completely obsolete. Shields can protect from gasses so gas shells, thermobarics, flamethrowers, they all quit working. As we've handwaved away the nuke-from-lasers effect, the ideal ranged weapon is now going to be using laser...

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Shield Dune Shields block anything physical moving above a certain speed (I don't know that it's ever exactly defined), which blocks just about any projectile weapon but can by bypassed by knives and swords, hence everybody fighting with those in Dune. Notably you...