Rimskayan Scientists "Successfully" Create "Übercharged" Tank

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Earlier this week, Rimskayan scientists revealed a project that has been in the works in Rimskaya for many months now.

It was previously conceived by the military high command: what if we could make our army impervious to all damage? Of course, at the time, no such methods existed, no army could be invincible, and they still firmly believe that to be true.

That was, until one of the scientists came home one night, and saw his son playing an very old game. It had survived the Revolution and the decades after, from the sheer willpower of its online community. He noticed something in it: one of the in-game characters, a medic of sorts, was able to "charge" his comrades, making them resistant to all forms of physical trauma- briefly.

He decided to do some investigation, and later found that this was called an "Übercharge". Further research managed to add sense to this seemingly fantastical idea: Using a chemical mixture that could rapidly repair tissue, and giving it an electrical charge in a gas form, could be used to heal comrades in battle effortlessly and painlessly.

The Übercharge though had a much more- unethical method. Utilizing a conductor inserted into the heart- or A heart- if the voltage was increased to what should be deadly levels, it would transmit the electricity through the device to the heart, and into the blood stream. The electricity would spread over the entire body, most importantly, the skin, and the sheer power of the voltage would make the skin into an electrified force-field, but only so long as the charge was applied. Naturally, in an organism, it could only be temporary, as sustained voltage of that magnitude would be deadly within seconds.

But what about non-organic objects? 

He requested several scaled-down models of Rimskaya's best MBT, and filled it with tubes containing a highly conductive mix of chemicals, rather than blood, which would be unethical. After applying a very strong charge to the liquids, increasing with every model, to the point where it started to glow in its heat-resistant tubing, he attempted to shoot the models with his rifle. Eventually, he did it- he reached a point where nothing he tried could penetrate the models' armour.

Now of course, rather than a home-made battery, the real tank would require its own super-powered generator to be installed. That is what was tested in an outdoor lab yesterday, and the charge proved to be successful at deflecting multiple anti-tank rockets... until the charge overbuilt and the (decommissioned) tank violently exploded.

"This is a phenomenal breakthrough in military science" stated the lead scientist in his report about the findings that was recently released to the public. "With this power, once it's perfected of course, we will have the ability to create armoured units capable of withstanding anything short of an atomic strike- or electrical weapons of course. Still working on that. Personnel and crew will need to wear gear and clothing with high rubber content, or other material, to protect them from the electric charge, and the armour will need to be improved so...(he glances at the wreck of the test tank) that doesn't happen again."

Commissar Augustus applauded the scientists work, proclaiming the beginning of a new age for Rimskayan self-defense. The response from the people though was less than stellar, and seems to have re-stoked the protests against the state, on the grounds of the state keeping scientific secrets from them. The National Government in Novogo Rima has yet to comment on the increasing unrest stemming from the release of the report.