US deploys 'game-changer' weapon to Afghanistan

[Damocles]

So when will these be available for those with Class 3 licenses? They are secksi.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

So when will these be available for those with Class 3 licenses? They are secksi.

On the 33rd of Nevuary.

 

[cancel2 2022]

On the 33rd of Nevuary.

What do you think about this project?

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/10/darpas-flying-humvee-goes-diesel/

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

What do you think about this project?

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/10/darpas-flying-humvee-goes-diesel/

So they invented the helicopter?

 

[Schadenfreude]

What do you think about this project?

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/10/darpas-flying-humvee-goes-diesel/

it still would be vulnerable to an IED

 

[cancel2 2022]

So they invented the helicopter?

I think they are trying to make a much cheaper version of the V22 Osprey.

 

[Canceled2]

I am crushed I tell you. C-R-U-S-H-E-D!

p.s. please give Foggy some pointers on using the Ignore List. She can't seem to keep me there, but makes constant claims I am there.

For her own good and awl!!!!

The new Meme (Mrs Exclamation Mark, Exclamation)

*winkers and all that jazz*​

The board drunk has you on IA? DOH-

Too bad his liver can't do the same to him~

 

[Schadenfreude]

I think they are trying to make a much cheaper version of the V22 Osprey.

not cheap enough, IEDs could knock them out or flat out destroy these expensive hummers - not worth the cost, so stop it now before it gets too embedded to cancel

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Never gonna see full deployment. And it's a limited application weapon.

How dare you ruin this journalists sensationalist news coverage! He didn't get a degree in bullshit to be talked down by you.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

I think they are trying to make a much cheaper version of the V22 Osprey.

I don't seeing as how a HMMWV only carries 4 or 5 people, and the Osprey carries as many as 16. So you'd need 4 times and many and I'd imagine at least 2x the fuel of an Osprey.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

not cheap enough, IEDs could knock them out or flat out destroy these expensive hummers - not worth the cost, so stop it now before it gets too embedded to cancel

IEDs can destroy everything. I've seen one lift a 66 ton tank in the air and flip it over.

 

[cancel2 2022]

not cheap enough, IEDs could knock them out or flat out destroy these expensive hummers - not worth the cost, so stop it now before it gets too embedded to cancel

I can see the advantage of something that can fly out of a messy situation, of course we don't know how long it would take to deploy the rotors?

 

[Schadenfreude]

I can see the advantage of something that can fly out of a messy situation, of course we don't know how long it would take to deploy the rotors?

if look closely, there are not only two fixed wings to be deployed (likely manually) in addition to the rotors - this would expose the troops and rotors/wings to fire from the enemy

now maybe flying into a sticky situation to assist ground troops - maybe, but still too expensive

ps i spent over 25 years working in aerospace ending my career as a systems analyst

 

[cancel2 2022]

if look closely, there are not only two fixed wings to be deployed (likely manually) in addition to the rotors - this would expose the troops and rotors/wings to fire from the enemy

now maybe flying into a sticky situation to assist ground troops - maybe, but still too expensive

ps i spent over 25 years working in aerospace ending my career as a systems analyst

I bow to your expertise, I was thinking much the same.